2
October 2013
Workshop on Safer
Malaysia – Living in Fear of Crime is not living
Jointly organised by
the Bar Council Safer Malaysia Committee and the KL Bar Professional
Development Committee, Richard Wee Thiam Seng and Sarah Kambali from Messrs
Richard Wee & Yip presented the workshop which was held at the KL Bar
Auditorium at 3:00 pm on 2 October 2013. The workshop was attended by 18
participants. The Workshop was a programme which gave its participants an overview/wake-up
call about the elements that can be practised in everyday life towards a Safer
Malaysia. The workshop started with a summary of the objectives of Safer
Malaysia by Richard Wee. The workshop proper was conducted by Sarah Kambali
where she spoke on the three essential concept of Crime Fighting; Vigilance, Deterrence
and Prevention.
4
October 2013
PDC/CCPC Seminar on Advanced
Negotiation Skills
The KL Bar Corporate
and Conveyancing Practice Committee and Professional Development Committee
jointly presented a seminar by Amir Bahari on 4 October 2013 at 3:00 pm at the
KL Bar Auditorium. This seminar was attended by 25 participants. The seminar
covered the following areas, "Role Play", “Applying personality
dynamics to your favour", "Handling ‘colourful’ negotiators regarding
negotiation drives, questionable motives, non-Malaysian, other professionals, pressure
points, problematic negotiators and angry negotiators”, "Laying
Negotiation Traps" and "Avoiding Negotiation Traps".
4
October 2013
KL Bar Monthly Social
Get-together
About 70 lawyers
gathered at BAR 1981 @ Solaris Publika on 4 October 2013 for the October Social
Get-together, the largest turnout thus far. Everyone had a wonderful time and
enjoyed the great camaraderie. The event that started at 7:30 pm, saw the crowd
only parting at 2:00 am.
9
October 2013
Pupils Introduction
Session
Organised by the KL Bar
Pupils Welfare Committee, the introduction session for October was held on 9
October 2013. The session, attended by 77 pupils,
was led by Ravin Singh. Pupils were briefed on the structure of the Malaysian
Bar and the Kuala Lumpur Bar, the election to both the Bar Council and the Kuala
Lumpur Bar Committee (“KLBC”) and the highlights of the Malaysian Bar. It
included a session for pupils to raise issues and problems faced by them during
their pupillage period and members of the KLBC were on hand to provide input
and possible solutions. Amongst the issues raised by the pupils at this session
were pupils having to handle despatch work, lack of communication between the
KL Bar Secretariat and pupils on the Introduction Session, inconsistencies in
the procedures pertaining to the filing forms at the KL Bar Secretariat and the
Bar Council Secretariat and no rotation system being practised at the law firms
during their pupillage period.
11
October 2013
Meeting
with Pejabat Tanah dan Galian Selangor (PTGS)
This was the 2nd
Meeting for the year between the PTGS Officers and representatives of Bar
Council, Selangor Bar and the KL Bar Corporate and Conveyancing Practice Committee
(CCPC). The CCPC was represented by Rita Sabrina and Suraya Ismail. The meeting
mainly discussed the administrative issues of the Selangor Land Offices which
included the issue of blanket consent, court order, submissions and extractions
of documents. The PTGS also announced that their website had been updated and
lawyers may now check the status of their presentations at their portal at
http://strata.selangor.gov.my/ whilst for registration of titles, the status
can be checked at
http://epungutan.selangor.gov.my/. A full report will follow soon.
16
October 2013
Meeting
with RKKK Managing Judge
The KLBC together with
its Pupils Welfare Committee met up with the Managing Judge of the RKKK and
Commercial Courts at the KL Court on 16 October 2013 at 12.00 noon to address
the issue of long dates for Admissions to the Bar. The KLBC requested for the meeting
because of the huge backlog with pupils having to wait for up to three months
before they could be admitted to the Bar. Some of the Judges of the Commercial
Courts are now assisting to preside over Admissions to the Bar to overcome the backlog.
18
October 2013
PDC Seminar on Tax
Avoidance: Insights to the Legislative Provisions and Case Laws
Siti Fatimah Mohd
Shahrom from Messrs Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill presented the seminar
which was held at the KL Bar Auditorium at 3:00 pm on 18 October 2013. The
seminar was attended by 18 participants. The seminar focused on the general
anti-avoidance rule in Malaysia as contained in s140 of the Income Tax Act 1967.
22
October 2013
PAC Seminar on Business
Development for Law Firms
Mathew Thomas Philip
from Messrs Thomas Philip presented the seminar which was held at the KL Bar
Auditorium at 5:30 pm on 22 October 2013. The seminar was attended by 29
participants.
23 October 2013
PWC Civil Litigation
Workshop for Pupils
The KL Bar Pupils Welfare Committee
organised a civil litigation workshop specifically for pupils on 23 October
2013 focusing primarily on the practical aspects of handling a brief, covering
the following areas, opinion writing exercise, drafting of pleadings exercise
and presenting a case in Court. 50 pupils attended the workshop which was
conducted by Colin Andrew Pereira and Sanjeev Kumar Rasiah.
24
October 2013
PDC Seminar on Capital
Allowance and Charges: A Holistic Perspective
Thenesh Kannaa presented the seminar
which was held at the KL Bar Auditorium at 2:00 pm on 24 October 2013. The
seminar was attended by 12 participants. The seminar covered the study of
capital allowances and charges.
25
October 2013
PDC Seminar on Domicile
of the Parties in Family Law and Related Issues
Balwant Singh Sidhu
from Messrs Balwant Singh Sidhu & Co. presented the seminar which was held
at the KL Bar Auditorium at 3:00 pm on 25 October 2013. The seminar was
attended by 35 participants. The seminar covered Section 48 of the Law Reform
(Marriage & Divorce) Act 1976 which limits the power of our Courts to grant
a Decree of Divorce in cases where the domicile of the parties to the marriage
at the time when the petition is presented is in Malaysia. The seminar also
discussed the following cases: Charnley
v. Charnley and Betty (1960) 1 MLJ 29; Re Bhagwan Singh (Dec'd) (1964) MLJ 360;
Joseph Wong Phui Lun v. Yeah Loon Gait (1978) 1 MLJ 236; Melvin Lee Campbell v.
Amy Anak Edward Sumek (1988) 2 MLJ 338; Tan Guan Hock v. Khor Chai Heah (1990)
1 MLJ 422 (S.C.) and Ang Geck Choo v.
Wong Tiew Yong (1997) 3 MLJ 467; (1997) 3 CLJ 201.