‘The Malaysian Bar’ resides on the 4th floor of the Wisma Badan Peguam Malaysia, 2, Leboh Pasar Besar, 50050 Kuala Lumpur. It was officially unveiled by Marisa R Ng, the artist and Karen Cheah, the present Bar Council President in the afternoon on 22 August 2023 by way of a casual internal ceremony. I met Marisa through Nicholas Choong. I commissioned Nick to paint a mural on the external front wall of our atelier. I …
I followed Zee Tan‘s work on Facebook before I got around to approaching him for a piece. He has a vibrant personality and his is versatile in terms of his medium. That can be seen from his website, Z.Wang. When I got in touch, he was doing a number of murals at the time. I enjoyed his work and was happy when he agreed to do a piece for me. Zee Tan was easy to …
I love fairy tales, folk tales and modern children’s picture books. There is much to love about and learn from them: the characters, the setting, the quaintness, the delightful stories and the beautiful art that accompanies them. What I love most about classic fairy tales (Pinnochio, Red Riding Hood, Three Little Pigs), folk tales (Aesop’s Fables, the Sang Kancil stories, Orang Asli parables) and picture books (modern ones like Chris Riddle, Oliver Jeffers, Anthony Brown …
A few years ago, I had my personal epiphany about legal practice and art. Since legal practice is performance and performance is art, then legal practice and law can be artful, and therefore, art. In short, legal practice = performance = art or law = beauty = art. It occurred to me that in moments when we, as lawyers, employ our skills so well that we surpass the expected boundaries of competency, legal performance becomes …
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 …