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In 1964, Shook Lin opened an office in Singapore, [4] [5] and by the 1980s, it was considered one of the four local leading law firms of the time. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 2001, it was among the first batch of joint law ventures approved by the Singaporean government to operate a partnership with Allen & Overy .
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, it is a fused profession. Membership into the Bar is automatic and mandatory. [1]
The Kuala Lumpur Bar is led by a Committee comprising the Chairman of the KL Bar and ten other members who are elected annually at the Annual General Meeting. The committee is also empowered to co-opt two additional members into the committee. The co-opted members can participate in the deliberations of the committee but have no vote.
Malaysia and Singapore leaders signed an agreement on Tuesday to create a special economic zone to attract global investment and ease the cross-border flow of goods and people. Malaysian Prime ...
Sulaiman Abdullah was a Universiti Malaya law lecturer and served as both Malaysian Bar secretary (1993-1995) and president (2000-2001). [4] In an interview with the Star in 2007 he said that as a lawyer, he was always interested in the way the nation is governed which was why he first stood for office in the Bar's executive committee shortly ...
He has been acknowledged [16] to have transformed the public image of the Malaysian Bar when he singlehandedly designed and managed the website of the Malaysian Bar [17] for 4 years. He writes [ 18 ] regularly and has contributed many articles in local and foreign legal periodicals and news media.
He was called to the Bar of England and Wales at Middle Temple in 1991 and was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1992. Steven holds a Masters in Laws (LL.M) degree from the University of Malaya, graduating in 2000.
In the course of his legal and Judicial career he has been a member of the Malaysian Bar Council for many years, and was appointed a member of the National Goodwill Council in 1969, a Royal Commissioner in 1971 for the Reform of the Laws of Marriage and Divorce in Malaysia and for many years he was a member of the Legal Qualifying Board ...