Although I have moved many calls to the bar, only a few stay in touch after they are called. That is perfectly fine. I understand that to be the nature of the job. I am, after all, called for the sole purpose of being a midwife to the birth of a new lawyer. After the birth of a child, a mother rarely ends up best of friends with the midwife. It is the same with …
I have been going for regular tennis coaching for almost a year now. My tennis coach is Iranian, Coach Saeed. I call him Coach. He was formerly a national youth tennis coach. He has a few assistant tennis coaches. One that I work often with is also an Iranian. His name is Omid. When I started working with Coach almost a year back, all I had in my mind was for a few tweaks and …
The older I get in this day and age, I have the inescapable sinking feeling that my parents raised me wrong. They raised me to earn an honest living. Yet, every day I see how the corrupt, the dishonest, the cheats end up with power, prestige and sick amounts of money. They are lauded in spite of their utter moral bankruptcy and callousness. There is no sense of personal shame or guilt anymore. They raised …
I have come to the view that there is a spectrum of people in legal practice. On one end are those that not just love the law and legal practice, they are mad about it. I categorize these fellas as the legal savants. I love working with legal savants. They possess a natural legal mind and instinct for the law and its logic. They are attracted to legally related issues like a moth to a …
Hafiz Hajeedar said this essay was challenging for him because he didn’t quite understand where I was going with my essay – seemingly advancing arguments in favour of an Agong Counsel before decimating the idea in the second half. My humour proved the challenge for him – a feeling no doubt familiar to those who know me. I had Hafiz in mind because I was interested to see how he would depict the concept. I …