May it please My Lady, Not all of us who walk the court corridors knew that this is what we wanted to do for gainful employment. Many of us end up here by chance, because of our parents insistence, maybe ticked the wrong box or simply because we didn’t know what to do. For some reason, the law seems particularly attractive to two classes of people – those who know exactly what they want to …
My father once recited Rudyard Kipling’s If to me. I loved it and resonated with every line in that poem. But some of those lines I hold fast to. One of them is: “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the same:” Because of that line, whether it is a personal win, a loss, a success, a failure, an achievement, something to be proud of, or something to …
May it please your Lordship Fahri Azzat for the Petitioner, Amos Tan Yu Tsen. The Petitioner is the younger son of Michael Tan Khen Choan and Madam Joyce Lim Gaik Tian and hails from Damansara Jaya, Petaling Jaya. He has an older brother, Able Tan Chun Tsen. My Lord, I suspect that many practicing lawyers – especially those that did not have childhood dreams of being a lawyer – harboured ambitions for a different kind …
Once in my teens, I went to see my usual doctor, a general practitioner, in what is now called Damansara Uptown. I was suffering from pretty bad diarrhoea. Time always seems to slow down when we are sick or in pain or need to urgently go to the bathroom. One minute is a century. After what felt like three centuries, I was finally called in by the nurse to see the doctor. I was impressed …
May it please Your Ladyship, Fahri Azzat for the Petitioner, Iqbal Harith Liang bin Danial Liang. My Lady, the Petitioner’s parents Madam Umi Kalthum and Mr Danial Liang are present this morning. The Petitioner applied to me for a pupilage position in June last year. He submitted an impressive resume. The cover letter spoke of intellect, character and temperament that resonated with our firm’s values and qualities. I wanted very much to take him on …