My Criminal Practice
Even though I have conducted criminal cases for my entire career in practice, twenty-plus years now, doing everything from minor crimes of theft to attempted murder in the subordinate courts …
Even though I have conducted criminal cases for my entire career in practice, twenty-plus years now, doing everything from minor crimes of theft to attempted murder in the subordinate courts …
It was a High Court court-assigned counsel case. My client and another were charged with the murder of a man. Although according to the prosecution’s case, the other guy shot …
I recently went down for a hearing in Johor Bahru High Court for a criminal matter. It was to examine a witness. The examination was not expected to take long; …
In a civil or criminal case, all the evidence in support of a civil claim, criminal prosecution or defence to either of them must be brought before the trial judge …
In my thirties, despite having a clutch of capital punishment trials under my belt, and arguing matters in the Court of Appeal, I had not yet done any capital punishment …
I call such cases ‘sitters’. I don’t often get sitters. Rarely, actually. But that’s fine with me. On the regular, I’d prefer not to do sitters. If I did, I …
There was an occasion when I saw Amer open his cross-examination on an investigating officer (IO) in a case we did together with Amer’s partner, Edmund Bon, in Ampang many …
Jun Kit was recommended to me by a friend who saw my call out for artists on social media. I checked out his portfolio and liked the impressionistic feel of …
Amer Hamzah and I took our Certificate of Legal Practice (‘CLP’) course at the University of Malaya (UM) when they used to run it. The time we took it was …
If Hasan Ali and me were a three-act play; we were now at the point of confrontation. I waited for Rahman to calm down. “He has a sword?” “Yes. He …
Just before I took Hasan Ali on, between the period of 2012 to 2016, I had the good fortune to meet and establish friendships or working relationships with a few …
Lude Hasan Ali was my friend’s legal aid client. Hasan Ali was convicted after pleading guilty to an offence under section 6(1) of The Corrosive and Explosive Substances and Offensive …
Prelude Many years ago when I was a young lawyer taking up criminal cases from the Bar Council Legal Aid Centre (Kuala Lumpur) (“LACKL”), I came across a case that …
I once had a dilemma; it was when I conducted a criminal appeal in the Court of Appeal. It was for a charge of drug trafficking, an offence punishable with …