I asked myself that question from time to time in the first few years of practice when I ran the gamut of debt and traffic claims and defences in the lower courts for the firm. I asked myself that question during those long, dull and lonely waits. If I weren’t waiting in the subordinate court registry, I’d be waiting in court waiting for my case to be called up. In the good old days, whatever …
From time to time, I wonder how much a prosecution costs. Because there is a cost to it. Time, effort, skill, people, resources, and systems are drawn upon. There is an opportunity cost for all of that. All that can be spent somewhere more fruitful. Whenever I see the trial of a powerful politician, I wonder how much prosecuting them cost. Immense effort, coordination, time, expertise, planning, and preparation go into prosecuting a case against …
‘The Malaysian Bar’ resides on the 4th floor of the Wisma Badan Peguam Malaysia, 2, Leboh Pasar Besar, 50050 Kuala Lumpur. It was officially unveiled by Marisa R Ng, the artist and Karen Cheah, the present Bar Council President in the afternoon on 22 August 2023 by way of a casual internal ceremony. I met Marisa through Nicholas Choong. I commissioned Nick to paint a mural on the external front wall of our atelier. I …
When a person dies, what remains, from a legal standpoint, is their estate and its beneficiaries (assuming he has them and they are alive). A corpse has no legal personality. An estate comprises all the assets owned and liabilities owed by the deceased. Assets ordinarily comprise things like immovable assets (land), moveable assets (vehicle, guitar, clothes, etc.), shares, bank accounts, rent, legal rights to something, and anything of value really. Liabilities are debts like credit …
I am called upon to advise about this scenario or something like it every once in a while: X never met Y before. They do not know each other. Or they knew each other or about each other, but never had any commercial or personal dealings with each other before, directly or indirectly. There is no relationship between them in whatever shape or form. Zero. Nada. One day, X sues Y for a tort of …