MOVING TO THE WEBSITE

Dear Members,

When I first started this blog it was to experiment if the members of Perak Bar were willing to embrace technology and use this portal to impart information and updates on the activities of the Perak Bar. I believe that it has been a success. In line with that, the Perak Bar had already set up the Perak Bar Website to run concurrently with this blog with the view that we would be switching over to it full time.

We believe that the time is now. So please change your bookmarks to our Perak Bar Website in order to receive the latest updates and information of Perak Bar.

The link to the Perak Bar Website is HERE. Please do register yourself with the new website which will in turn send you an email when the page is updated.

We will be phasing this blog out and will eventually be closing it down.

Thank you.

The Perak Bar Treasure Hunt 2013

The Perak Bar Treasure Hunt 2013

Invitation to a Talk on Binding Ourselves Together - Is It Worth It? The Individual, The Collective, and the Law

We are pleased to inform your goodselves that the Sub Committee of the Professional Development / ADR of the Perak Bar Committee presents a Talk on Binding Ourselves Together - Is It Worth It? The Individual, The Collective, and the Law, which will be held as follows :- 

DATE       : 1st February 2013 (Friday)

TIME       :  3.00 pm to 5.00 pm

VENUE    :  Perak Bar Secretariat

SPEAKER : Mr. Shaun Tan 

Synopsis

A war of all against all’ was how Thomas Hobbes described life in the state of nature. Throughout history humans have required strong laws backed by force to curb our natural tendency to selfishness and violence. We enter into a social contract as a necessary evil, and we bind ourselves with laws so that we can bind others. We form collectives to check each individual’s will to power, and in exchange for a measure of our individualism and our freedom, we receive order and peace.

But is this exchange always worth it? At what point does collectivism become undesirable? Excessive collectivism leaves us vulnerable to demagogy and groupthink, and the worst atrocities in our history have been committed by highly-collectivized societies, often supported by vast legal machinery, their crimes all the more monstrous for their legality. In Malaysia we often see individual rights curtailed, allegedly for the sake of harmony, national unity, and public morality.

How should the law navigate the tension between the individual and the collective? This lecture is for anyone interested in the darker side of human nature, and the role of the law in keeping it in check.

About the Speaker

Shaun Tan obtained an MA in International Relations from Yale University, an LLB from King’s College London, and was called to the Bar at the Honorable Society of Lincoln’s Inn.

He writes on international relations, politics, history, philosophy, sociology, and education. His writing has appeared in The Yale Daily News, The Politic, The Yale Journal of International Affairs, The Yale Film Review, CEKU,LoyarBurok, Malaysia Chronicle, The Malaysian Insider, and The Sun. He enjoys reading, playing tennis, and talking about himself in the third-person.

The talk carries 2 CPD points.

Ipoh High Court Car Parking Stickers 2013

Members can purchase the said sticker from the Kelab Kebajikan Dan Sukan Mahkamah Tinggi Ipoh, for the sum of RM90.00 per sticker.



Kindly be informed that the Order Form to purchase the above stated High Court Car Parking Stickers 2013 is now available at the Kelab Kebajikan Dan Sukan Mahkamah Tinggi Ipoh.


Members who wish to purchase the above stated High Court Car Parking Stickers 2013, kindly fill in the Order Form and forward to En. Rosli Afandi / Puan Noor Azizah soonest possible for their further action.





Further, please be informed that the stickers would be distributed on a "first come first served basis" and it is limited to (50 unit only) and the closing date for the application is on 23rd November 2012 (Friday).

Fantasy Football

The Perak Bar has set up a Yahoo Fantasy League for members to participate and enjoy!! Go to http://uk.premierleague.fantasysports.yahoo.com/football.

Group ID : 14925
Group Name : Perak Bar
password : perakbar

Choose your players!!

ANNUAL DINNER 2012

HEAR YE! HEAR YE!

The Perak Bar Committee is proud to announce that the tickets for the Annual Dinner 2012 is now open for sale! Grab yours before its too late. Seats are limited!

The details for the dinner are as follows:-

Date            : 20/10/2012
Time           : 7.30 pm
Venue         : Grand Ballroom, Royal Perak Golf Club
Price           : RM100.00 per ticket, RM1000.00 per table of 10.
Dress Code : FORMAL

The Guest of Honour for this event is our Sultan of Perak.

Details and poster for this event can be downloaded HERE.

Thank you.

Perak Bar Blogmaster

seminar dasar ibu tunggal negara"

"seminar dasar ibu tunggal negara" will be held this Saturday 5/5/2012 at 9.00 am, at Dewan Serbaguna SUK jointly organised by the State Government & Perak Bar. Show your support!

OBITUARY

The Perak Bar would like to extend their deepest condolences to:-
Mr. Lalchand Nathermal Thadani,
Mr. Purshotamdas Nathermal Thadani (Kiko) of M/S Lalchand Nawawi and
Mr. Ghanshamdas Nathermal of M/S Mad Diah Das & Co and their families on their Mother's demise.

May she Rest In Peace.

The wake will be held at the Mothers house at No. 86, Jalan Hassan, Lim Garden from today till tomorrow and the funeral cortege will be leaving for the Bercham crematorium at 2.00pm on Friday (27/4/2012).

PERAK BAR AGM

Dear Members,

The Perak Bar AGM is tomorrow (10/2/2012) at the High Court No. 2 (Old Building) @ 3 PM.

Please do take the effort to attend to ensure you have the people you feel can and will do the job for you voted in for the committee.

Thank you.

Perak Bar Blogmaster

Annual Report 2011/2012

Dear Members,

We are currently in the process of serving the Annual Report to all members. However, the previous Chinese New Year holiday and the upcoming long weekend (4 -7 January) has hampered and will further delay our efforts to do so. We apologise for any inconvenience and will endeavour to ensure that all members receive their copy of the  Annual Report before the AGM.

Perak Bar Secretariat

LEGAL AID CLINIC @ SG. SIPUT LAUNCH

Dear Members, 
 
Legal Aid Clinic at Sungei Siput 
Dear members,
 
We wish to annouce the launching of  Legal Aid Clinic at Sungei Siput, details of which are as follows:-
 
Date:     18th. February 2012 (Saturday)

Time:    2.30 p.m.

Venue:  121 A, Lorong 4,
             Taman Heawood,
             Sungei Siput (U),
             Perak 
The idea of setting this Clinic came about following requests from several NGOs who are serving the hard-core poor communities in the rural areas and surrounding estates in Sungei Siput.
The clinic will be manned by volunteers and pupils and shall initially operate on a bi-monthly basis, subject to public demand.
 
All Members are cordially invited to attend the launch.
For further details, kindly email us at peraklac@gmail.com  or call at 05-2550523
 
Thank you.
 
M. Gokoolaram Naidu
EO 
Perak Legal Aid Centre

Meeting With Industrial Court Judge on Administrative Affairs

Dear Members

 

Re : Meeting of Administrative Affairs of the Industrial Court on 30th January 2012

 

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Reference is made to the above attachment.

 

Kindly be informed that the committee members will be having a meeting with the Judge of the Industrial Court in respect of Administrative affairs of the Industrial Court on 30th January 2012.

 

Kindly  let us know if your goodselves have any problems, querries and possible solutions regarding of the Administrative affairs of the Industrial Court. Therefore, we require your goodselves feedback as to any problems that your goodselves may have faced with the Industrial Court. 

 

Further kindly email the issues that your goodselves wish to raise at the said meeting toperakbar@streamyx.com before the 16th January 2012 or contact our Mr. Surindar Singh soonest possible.

 

Thank you.

 

 

 

Surindar Singh

Courts Sub Committee

National Law Awareness Week

Dear Members,

The Malaysian Bar Legal Aid Committee together with the Perak Bar Committee is proud to announce the launching of the National Law Awareness Week 2011 on the 2nd of October, 2011 at 9.00 a.m. at the Orang Asli Village at Kampung Ulu Geroh, Gopeng Perak Darul Ridzuan.

The official invitation card and details can be downloaded here.

Kindly contact Ram at 05-2550523 for further details.

Thank you.

Perak Bar Blogmaster

BAR-BENCH PDRM Tripartite Games 2011 Report

BAR – BENCH – PDRM TRIPARTITE GAMES 2011 REPORT

FOOTBALL

Our football team opened the tournament with a narrow win on penalties against PDRM. Norali, the new Perak Bar number 9 scored on his debut and our keeper Justin was the hero of the game where he saved the last penalty on sudden death. However, due to lack of players because of multiple injuries and other prior commitments, Perak Bar suffered heavy defeat of 1-5 against the Bench whereby Ellangovan provided us the consolation goal in the second half. The score would have been better had Perak Bar started with the full 11 players instead of just 10. In the final game, the Bench defeated PDRM 3-2 in a high tension game. Overall result for football, the Bench retained the championship, followed by Perak Bar and PDRM. I would like to thank our Perak Bar Chairman Haji Mad Diah for his presence throughout both games to cheer our players on as well as to Danial Rahman for shaking off the cobwebs of his boots to play for the team.

BOWLING

The format of the game is 10 players from each team, comprising of 5 ladies and 5 men. It was evident from the games that both PDRM and Bench bowl like professional bowlers at par; if not similar, to our skill in drafting an Affidavit of service. The bench won this event with total pinfall of 3720 slightly edging out PDRM who finished with 3712 whereby our Perak Bar team scored a total of 2932 pinfalls only. I would like to congratulate Zaireen for her participation in this event.

NETBALL

Before we reveal the score, kudos to our netballers for the team spirit, to come and fight as one and to organise their preparation diligently. I’ve witnessed the first game against the PDRM whereby our Perak Bar Team gave PDRM a good fight before finally losing 4-11. This is reasonable score compared to the other game whereby PDRM thrashed the Bench 13-1. The Bar however managed to edge out the Bench 8-5 in the other round robin game. Therefore overall for Netball PDRM is the winner, Perak Bar comes in 2^nd and the Bench 3^rd.

VOLLEYBALL

Without training, our Perak Bar team lost both games against Bench and PDRM. Against PDRM we managed to give reasonable fight considering some of the players only just got to know each other in that particular morning itself. I would like to congratulate Adham Jamalullail for being the captain and manage to bring more than 6 players for the game and Rehan for playing for the volleyball team. According to our Captain, with more training this team can click and play well. PDRM is the overall winner, followed by the Bench and Perak Bar.

BADMINTON

Our Captain, K. Y. Chong is a Superman. Our Tuan Haji Khairil is also an equal to Batman. Both players played in almost every men double games for the Perak Bar team. This is due to the last minute absence of most Perak Bar star shuttlers on that particular day. PDRM is the winner, Bench 2^nd and Perak Bar 3^rd.

DARTS

This is the game Perak Bar nearly won. We lost by 1 point to PDRM and lead the Bench by 3 points. I must thank Kenny Lai for his presence and participation for our Perak Bar team. Out of all the sports, this is the game whereby our player, Kiko Das, will go on stage to claim the overall best individual scores of 120.

 

Finally I would like to congratulate all members and the Main Committee who took part and further eased my burden in organizing this event. Irrespective of the outcome of shooting, which will be held on 17.6.2011, PDRM is already the overall winner of this tournament followed by Bench and Perak Bar. I hope in future, more members will come and join not only in sports but also in other programmes organised by the members of the Perak Bar Committee for their benefit to foster better relations and camaraderie as well as to have fun! Well done and Thank you Perak Bar!

Tri Partite Games 2011

UPDATED - PART 2


*** THE SHOOTING COMPETITION HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO A DATE AND VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED LATER ***

  

TRI PARTITE GAMES 2011

PDRM PERAK* PERAK BAR * PERAK BENCH

Perak Bar, PDRM Perak and Perak Bench will jointly organise the Tripartite Games 2011 which was last held back in 1994. The Perak Bar Sports Committee encourages all the members to participate in this event. The details of the event and the respective Captains are as follows:-

NO	DATE	GAME		VENUE	NOTE
1.	Postponed	Shooting		to be confirmed later	Falling plate with M-16
2.	Friday 27/5/2011 5.30pm	Netball Football		FRU Sg Senam Ipoh.	Game 1 for football and netball.
3.	Friday 27/5/2011 8.30pm	Bowling		Ampang Bowl, Ipoh Parade Shopping Complex
4.	Saturday 28/5/2011 8.30am	Badminton Volleyball Football Darts Netball		FRU Sg Senam Ipoh.	Game 2 for football and netball
5.	Saturday 28/5/2011 5.00pm	Netball Football		FRU Sg Senam Ipoh.	Game 3 for football and netball
NO	GAME		CAPTAIN
1.	Shooting		Lt. Cdr. (R) Norhasham Bin Hj Hasan – 0125210232
2.	Bowling		Tun Ammar Aziz-0195704434
3.	Netball		Ruzitah Sarbani -0175771737
4.	Football		Fey Aqis Mohd Khairuddin- 019-5751661
5.	Badminton		Chong Kok Yew-0125229022
6.	Darts		Kiko Das-0125217611
7.	Volleyball		Adham Jamalullail Ibrahim-0165345487

Yours sincerely

ZAIZURAIMY ABD RAHIM

Chairman

Perak Bar

Sports Committee

Obituary : Mother of Mr. Andrew Soong Sze Toong

Dear Members,

Kindly be informed that Mr. Andrew Soong Sze Toong's (of M/S B.H.Koh, Soong Zarin & Partners) mother passed away peacefully on the 11/5/2011.

The wake will be held at 7.00 pm at his residence at No. 3, Persiaran Cempaka, Off Jalan Pasir Puteh, 31650 Ipoh and the funeral service will be held on the 13th May 2011 at 10.00 a.m.

The Perak Bar wishes to send our deepest condolences to Mr. Andrew Soong and his family for their loss.

May she rest in peace.


Perak Bar Blogmaster

Law Awareness Booth @ Tanjung Tualang Report

LAW AWARENESS BOOTH AT TANJUNG TUALANG ON 17.04.11

Men Against Violence (MAV) began in 2010 by  Sekretariat Pembangunan Masyarakat dan Sosial Pergerakan Masyarakat Wanita UMNO Negeri Perak and a small group of NGOs, whose mission was to affect social change in the community by making men aware of the prevalence of violence against women.  It was officially launched last year by the Menteri Besar of Perak.  The concept was to develop creative and targeted marketing, education and communication tools to deliver the message that the issue was indeed a man's issue as much as a woman's, since the majority of all violent crimes against women are perpetrated by men.

Since that time, MAV has taken on a road-show concept and has become an annual affair and this year it was held in Tanjong Tualang on 17.04.11.  The event was officially opened by  Malaysia’s most well-known social activist Datuk Paduka Marina Mahathir.  This is a lady most Malaysians speak of in glowing terms regarding her refreshingly fair liberalism, intelligence, opinionated stance and her drive to create awareness for a number of serious issues in this country. She has the interest of the community at heart with her involvement in raising awareness for AIDS, women’s rights and violence against women, as well as being a member of the National Women’s Advisory Council. Perak Legal Aid Centre was among  the several  organizations  invited to set up  information booths to reach out to the public at large and to act as a social-change-agent  to achieve a sense of community and responsibility among men and to engage them in the anti-violence movement.  Its Executive Legal Officer, Mr. M. Gokoolaram Naidu also spoke and shared his experience on Domestic Violence as a panelist in the Forum entitled “Hentikan, Kawal Diri, Gunakan Fikiran”.  Cultural performance by various local artists also focused on the theme of the day thus making the event more meaningful.  The Perak Legal Aid Booth was manned by Puan Noorehan Zakaria along with 8 chambering students.  Looking at the turn-out of visitors at the booths,  the public seemed receptive to the issue in hand and also of their rights.  Later, Datuk Paduka Marina presented Certificates of Appreciation to all participants. According to sources, violence against women is on the rise with the largest increase  found in the offences of intimidation.  Thus this program is focused on educating both men and women on the problem of violence against women and how they can play a positive role in ending it.            M. Gokoolaram Naidu  Executive Legal Officer Perak Legal Aid Centre