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 …
My Lord, The Petitioner hails from Puchong of Selangor and initially had no legal ambition. That is not to say her ambitions were the illegal sort. Rather, the Petitioner in her early life was more comfortable in the realm of science and numbers instead words. She naturally thought her destiny was to be in business or worse, banking. But then Lord Denning, one of the most famous judges graduated First Class in Mathematics from Oxford …
May it please My Lady, Not all of us who walk the court corridors knew that this is what we wanted to do for gainful employment. Many of us end up here by chance, because of our parents insistence, maybe ticked the wrong box or simply because we didn’t know what to do. For some reason, the law seems particularly attractive to two classes of people – those who know exactly what they want to …