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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 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 ...
Law of Malaysia. 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.
Nallini Pathmanathan. Nallini Pathmanathan (born 23 August 1959) is a Malaysian lawyer who has served as a judge of the Federal Court of Malaysia since November 2018. She is the first female judge of South Asian ethnicity to be elevated to the highest judicial office in Malaysia. [ 1][ 2]
Website. https://klbar.org.my. 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 ...
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 ...
Malaysian legal history has been determined by events spanning a period of some six hundred years. Of these, three major periods were largely responsible for shaping the current Malaysian system. The first was the founding of the Melaka Sultanate at the beginning of the 15th century; second was the spread of Islam in the indigenous culture; and ...
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 ...