Halal Money and Rezeki
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 …
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The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Right
At work, as a lawyer, I have to be right. If possible, all the time. If not, I should be right most of the time. At the very least, I …
Renouncing Islam in the Federal Territories of Malaysia
These are my views on the Federal Constitution, the law and its practice where it relates to apostasy, and my experience conducting such cases in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya in …
Legal Practice as Performance Art
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 …
My parents raised me wrong
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, …
The Legal Savants and The Uninclined
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, …
Escaping the Junior Experience
We suffer the junior experience as fresh lawyers. We may have done the research, gathered the evidence, formulated the claim, fashioned our responses to the defences, prepared every scrap of …
The Two Lives in Life
Of course, there aren’t just two lives in life. There are many. But to simplify things for my simple self, I say there are two lives. The personal life and …
‘How do you get work?’
One of my younger colleagues asked me this question the other day. ‘That is a good question,’ I replied. ‘Thank you, sir,’ he said. ‘I reply ‘good question’ to questions …
