Legal Awareness

The Day I Was a Litigant | Unfair Contract Terms

It was after 18 years of representing others, I ended up a litigant; Plaintiff, thankfully. I assure you it was for the right reason, not a frivolous one; and, naturally, a legal reason. You know that common complaint about that term in your contract which says, for example, if you have a 2 year contract but terminate it after 8 months, you still have to pay for the balance 16 months, known as ‘commitment fees’ …

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“Why do you act for them?”

I was asked this question once by a polite young Malay male student when I was on my smoke break when I was in University Sultan Zainal Abidin, UniSZA, as they call themselves, for a task that required me to stay overnight in Kuala Terengganu to complete. That happened on the first evening I was there. It was around the time after the transgender case I was involved with erupted in the media after the …

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Get Legal Advice Early

Some of you may have caught the news about the 72 year old, Dolly Ng, a former piano teacher who inherited about RM 4+ million from her parents but lost it all as a result of the Macau scam. I quote the material portions: Some time in May last year, a person, claiming to be a policeman, contacted her. “The caller told me that my money in the accounts was under investigation by the authorities. …

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