Moments of Interest - From the Bar Stool

The Time Amer Found Crime

2 April 202410 September 2021 by Fahri Azzat

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 the second last time they held the course there, 1997-1998. The course was conducted by a mixture of UM lecturers and part-time practicing lawyers. They varied in quality from the amazingly good to the indifferent perfunctory performance; in quantity, the latter outnumbered the former. Amer …

“Why do you act for them?”

2 April 20244 December 2020 by Fahri Azzat

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 …