May it please your Lordship, Fahri Azzat for the Petitioner, Hoe Sue Lu. My distinguished learned friends for the Bar, the Kuala Lumpur Bar Committee and the Attorney General’s Chambers were introduced earlier. My Lord, my speech this morning will take about six minutes. There are 3 parts to my speech. The first is an introduction of the Petitioner and how she came to the law. The second is why she is a fit and …
Don’t get me wrong. I think legal awards serve a purpose. To need an extrinsic indicator of success or recognition for their self-esteem is common. Legal awards serve this need. It gives us something to achieve or acquire depending on the legal award one signs up for. It inspires us to do our best, so we are acknowledged as such. To be fair, it is difficult to be driven entirely by the non-recognition of intrinsic …
May it please My Lady, Despite the legal profession’s glorious history, the strictness of ethics and nobility of purpose, the public often casts us in the role of the Devil, even when we’re only the Devil’s advocate. And worse, there are legally qualified people who haven’t a clue about what it means to be a lawyer, never mind a Devil’s Advocate, so they play to that awful public image thinking that’s the way to go …
Ever since setting up on my own in 2016, I came to discover that I enjoy and have a lot of fun with interior and exterior decoration. I decorated the interior of our atelier on a shoestring budget, which was a creative challenge in itself. What I lacked in money, I had in time. And I had a lot of time, especially in the first two years of setting up the firm to think about …
My Lady, The Petitioner, Moganaraj Mithra s/o Nandi Mithra, is the only son of Mr Nandi Mithra s/o James and Madam Pongamal d/o Veeriah’s four children, both of whom are present today. It is rare for the ambitions of youth to survive adulthood. Many of us never achieve the glorious employment we dreamed of when we were younger and the pitch of our voices higher. I, for example, never became that fireman, computer game tester …