My Lord, Not all of us are blessed with a destiny for our future employment. Not all of us hear the calling of law in our cradles. And from my experience, many come to the law not because it was for them but because they didn’t know what to do. They come to the law because it gives them a broad array of legal as well as non-legal options about what to do with themselves. …
I have moved pupils’ calls to the bar since 2006, which was when I crossed the seven-year threshold of being senior enough to take a pupil on and move their calls. I must have moved quite a number in the first couple of years because I reflected on the experience as early as 2008 in a piece titled A Meditation about Moving by an occasional Mover. Upon reflection, when I wrote that, I was at …
My experience of calls to the Bar is one borne from moving calls mostly at the Kuala Lumpur (KL) and, occasionally, at the Shah Alam High Courts. Rarely have I been called to move a call out of the Klang Valley. I used to look on in horror at the mass calls to the Bar practiced by the Singaporean Bar. I used to think our Malaysian practice of calling each newly minted member of the …