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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, it is a fused ...
The Attorney General of Malaysia ( Malay: Peguam Negara also referred to as the AG; Jawi: ڤڬوام نڬارا مليسيا ) is the principal legal adviser of Malaysia. The Attorney General is also the highest ranking public prosecutor in the country and is also known as the Public Prosecutor, or simply PP. The powers with regard to ...
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.
A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence. [ 1] The word bar is derived from the old English/European custom of using a physical railing to separate the area in which court business is done from the viewing area for the general public.
Spouse. Zarina Idris. Children. 4. Alma mater. University of Malaya ( LLB) Occupation. Lawyer, civil servant. Ahmad Terrirudin bin Mohd Salleh (born 12 April 1968) is a Malaysian lawyer who has served as the twelfth Attorney General of Malaysia since 6 September 2023.
Malaysian lawyers. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lawyers from Malaysia. This category page lists notable lawyers who were admitted to the Malaysian Bar. To find a lawyer, see malaysianbar.org.my.
Mohamed Apandi bin Ali (born 11 February 1950) is a Malaysian lawyer and politician who was the Attorney General of Malaysia from 2015 to 2018. Six months after assuming office, he cleared then prime minister Najib Razak of any wrongdoing in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and SRC International cases and marked the investigation for "no further action".
The law of Malaysia is mainly based on the common law legal system. This was a direct result of the colonisation of Malaya, Sarawak, and North Borneo by Britain between the early 19th century to the 1960s. The supreme law of the land—the Constitution of Malaysia —sets out the legal framework and rights of Malaysian citizens.