Contributed by Roger Tan
Sunday, 22 February 2009 01:16pm
©The Sunday Star (Used by permission)
WITH reference to the letter by WKL of Penang in The Star, February 19 (“UUM law grads still awaiting reply from Bar Council”), I wish to clarify on behalf of the Bar Council that the power to exempt Universiti Utara Malaysia law graduates from the Certificate of Legal Practice examination is vested with the Legal Profession Qualifying Board chaired by the Attorney-General, and not the Bar Council.On Aug 24, 2008, 10 senior legal practitioners, together with other evaluators from the Judiciary and the Attorney-General’s chambers, all appointed by the Board, visited Universiti Utara Malaysia in Sintok, Kedah, and then Multi-media University in Malacca on Sept 3, 2008, to determine if UUM and MMU law graduates should be exempt from the CLP examination.
We have already made our recommendations to the Board, and it is for the Board to decide.
ROGER TAN, Malaysian Bar Evaluation Team head, Kuala Lumpur.
http://www.malaysianbar.org.my/members_opinions_and_comments/the_power_is_vested_in_the_attorney_general_not_the_bar_council.html
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written by Stephen Tan Ban Cheng, Sunday, February 22 2009 09:19 pm
My dear Roger
Are you telling us that a Malaysian university whose establishment has been authorised by statute has actually conferred law degrees and therefore produced law graduates without the PRIOR permission of the authorities concerned? Isn't that a scandal of sorts? It's just like putting the cart before the horse. A course of action that our good old Tunku will describe as OTC or "otak tak centre"! But then again, what is such a scandals compared to others still evolving? And the good old Tunku is no longer with us.
Stephen Tan Ban Cheng
Sunday, 22 February 2009 01:16pm
©The Sunday Star (Used by permission)
WITH reference to the letter by WKL of Penang in The Star, February 19 (“UUM law grads still awaiting reply from Bar Council”), I wish to clarify on behalf of the Bar Council that the power to exempt Universiti Utara Malaysia law graduates from the Certificate of Legal Practice examination is vested with the Legal Profession Qualifying Board chaired by the Attorney-General, and not the Bar Council.On Aug 24, 2008, 10 senior legal practitioners, together with other evaluators from the Judiciary and the Attorney-General’s chambers, all appointed by the Board, visited Universiti Utara Malaysia in Sintok, Kedah, and then Multi-media University in Malacca on Sept 3, 2008, to determine if UUM and MMU law graduates should be exempt from the CLP examination.
We have already made our recommendations to the Board, and it is for the Board to decide.
ROGER TAN, Malaysian Bar Evaluation Team head, Kuala Lumpur.
http://www.malaysianbar.org.my/members_opinions_and_comments/the_power_is_vested_in_the_attorney_general_not_the_bar_council.html
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Comment
written by Stephen Tan Ban Cheng, Sunday, February 22 2009 09:19 pm
My dear Roger
Are you telling us that a Malaysian university whose establishment has been authorised by statute has actually conferred law degrees and therefore produced law graduates without the PRIOR permission of the authorities concerned? Isn't that a scandal of sorts? It's just like putting the cart before the horse. A course of action that our good old Tunku will describe as OTC or "otak tak centre"! But then again, what is such a scandals compared to others still evolving? And the good old Tunku is no longer with us.
Stephen Tan Ban Cheng
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