Dealing with Others
Remember we are all human beings going through own own trajectory in life, at a particular stage of development, and are managing our own challenges in our lives at the …
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Consultation Fees and the Embarrassed Lawyer
My good friend Shan and I were once at a post-hearing meal in the company of a very senior and well known lawyer. Shop talk was inevitable since we were …
“Why do you act for them?”
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 …
Making choices
When deciding something critical, project myself to the distant future then look back at this present moment and ask myself, what would I like to have happen or assuming I …
A Master’s Expectation
The recent intense discussion about pupil remuneration revealed an interesting dimension to the issue – a Master’s expectation of their pupil. The impression of that is Masters now expect a …
A Pupil’s Remuneration
Mathew Thomas Philip, a senior lawyer, recently made an interesting suggestion about pupils’ remuneration. His proposal was to replace pupil allowances with a pupil loan with comfortable repayment terms. That …
Campaigning for Bar Council Elections
When I started practice at the Bar in 1999, the Bar Council elections were not the contentious, fractious, politicized and aggressive election we have now. My sense of it then …
Dealing with Failure and Success
If failure, let the disappointment and anger, if any, run its course for the day. End the day well. Go to bed early. Forget about yesterday. If success, savour it …
Mass Calls to the Bar
My experience of calls to the Bar is one borne from moving calls mostly at the Kuala Lumpur (KL) and, occasionally, at the Shah Alam High Courts. Rarely have I …
