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Malaysian Bar. The Council's headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. No. 2, Leboh Pasar Besar, 50050 Kuala Lumpur. Tel: +603-20502050. The Malaysian Bar (Malay: Badan Peguam Malaysia) is a professional body which regulates the profession of lawyers in peninsular Malaysia. In Malaysia, there is no distinction between a barrister and a solicitor, in that ...
Tommy Thomas (born 1952) is a Malaysian barrister and the former Attorney General of Malaysia from 2018 to 2020. [1] [2] [3] He was the first practising barrister to be appointed directly from the Malaysian Bar to be the Attorney General, [4] and the first non-Malay and non-Muslim Malaysian to hold this post after the formation of Malaysia in 1963.
This is a list of official business registers around the world. [1][2] There are many types of official business registers, usually maintained for various purposes by a state authority, such as a government agency, or a court of law. In some cases, it may also be devolved to self-governing bodies, either commercial (a chamber of commerce) or ...
The Kuala Lumpur Bar was established on 1 July 1992 at a general meeting of advocates & solicitors practising in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur held under section 68 (4) of the Legal Profession Act 1976. [ 1] Before that date, practitioners in Kuala Lumpur were members of the Selangor Bar, which was later called the Selangor & Federal ...
Alma mater. University of Leicester, England. (LLB Law), University of Malaya (LLM) Occupation. Lawyer. Steven Thiruneelakandan is a Malaysian attorney and former President of the Malaysian Bar. [ 1] He is a senior partner at Messrs. Steven Thiru & Sudhar Partnership and was a litigation partner of Messrs Shook Lin & Bok from 2000 to 2018.
She was the president of the Malaysian Bar Council from 2007 to 2009, and co-chairperson of Bersih, an NGO coalition advocating for free and fair elections. She previously served in the executive committee of the Women's Aid Organisation as well as in the Bar Council Special Committee on the rights of the indigenous Orang Asli people. She is a ...
The Certificate in Legal Practice (CLP) is a 9-month post-graduate course and examination taken by foreign law graduates and graduates of the Bachelor of Jurisprudence (Hons) from the University of Malaya [1] and Bachelor of Legal Studies (Hons) from Universiti Teknologi MARA, [2] to become a qualified lawyer in Malaysia. [3][4] The examination ...
Admission to practice law. An admission to practice law is acquired when a lawyer receives a license to practice law. In jurisdictions with two types of lawyer, as with barristers and solicitors, barristers must gain admission to the bar whereas for solicitors there are distinct practising certificates. Becoming a lawyer is a widely varied ...