May it please your Lordship, The Petitioner is the daughter of Mr Simon Hoo, a remisier, and Madam Ruth Ng, a Home Minister. She has an elder sister, Anne Hoo, who is a pharmacist in the United Kingdom and a younger brother, John Hoo. The Petitioner was an accomplished student. She got the kind of grades I would read about in a University newsletter. In the first and second years of her Bachelor of Laws …
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 …
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 …
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 …
May it please your Lordship, My Lord is no doubt aware, being a practitioner of repute before, that lawyers in general have a poor reputation. We are called all sorts of nasty names and often stand accused of doing all sorts of nasty things – even though we only do what the client instructs. We are the easy sacrificial scapegoats for the misdeed of others. So it is refreshing to learn that the Petitioner chose …