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The Civil Court Liaison Committee is pleased to announce that arrangements have been made with a shuttle service operator to provide shuttle service to and from the MATRADE car park and the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex. The service has commenced on 16.11.2009 (Monday) . The shuttle service will run from Mondays to Fridays, from 8.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. The cost of the service is RM1.00 for a two-way ticket. All members attending Court are strongly encouraged to park at the MATRADE car park and utilise the shuttle service to get to the Court Complex to help ease the traffic congestion and parking problem at the Court Complex. The parking fee at the MATRADE car park is RM2.50 for the first hour and RM1.00 for every subsequent hour or part thereof to a maximum charge of RM5.00. With this in place, vehicles will no longer be allowed to be parked along the side of the roads leading to the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex. Those found to be parking their vehicles along the ...

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Effective date of commencement: 3.2.2009 Courts involved: Civil and Commercial Divisions of the Kuala Lumpur High Courts Courts excluded: Family; Appellate & Miscellaneous Matters; Bankruptcy; and Intellectual Property matters Rationale: Judges are to be freed from administrative matters such as dealing with adjournments, settlements and other miscellaneous matters so as to concentrate solely on hearing matters assigned to them after the matter has been “case managed” by a central Management Court for the respective divisions. The judges are to sit at 9am till 12.30pm and 2pm (or 2.30pm) till 4.30pm to solely to hear contested applications or the trial of the suit. This will enable speedier disposal of hearings and trials by the judges. Procedure: To implement this, Judges are designated as either trial judges or application judges to hear trial or applications respectively (“T-track” or “A-track” judges) with no merging or crossing-over. As such, for instance, if a pending in...

Dear KL Bar members, It has just been brought to the attention of the KLBC that the following Judges of the KL High Court may be attending the LAWASIA Conference. In the circumstances, cases fixed before these Judges from 29 to 31 October 2008 may be postponed. Members who have cases before the said Judges on the said dates are advised to check with the respective Courts whether their cases would be proceeding as scheduled or postponed. 1. Court D1 - YA Dato' Mohd Hishamudin bin Mohd Yunus 2. Court D4 - YA Dato' Rohana Yusuf 3. Court D5 - YA Datuk Ramly bin Haji Ali 4. Court D6 - YA Datuk Siti Mariah bt Hj Ahmad 5. Court D7 - YA Dato' T. Selventhiranathan 6. Court D8 - YA Dato' Kang Hwee Gee 7. Court S1 - YA Datuk Abdul Wahab bin Patail 8. Court S2 - YA Dato' Aziah bt Ali 9. Court S5 - YA Dato' Tee Ah Sing 10. Court RPP1 - Y.A. Puan Lau Bee Lan 11. Court J2 - YA Dato' Haji Mohamed Apandi Ali 12. Court J3 - YA Dato' Mohamad Zabidin bin Mohd Diah Yours fai...

Dear members of the KL Bar, Relocation of Civil File Search Counter at the Kuala Lumpur Courts Complex We have been notified by the Deputy Registrar of the Civil Division of the KL High Court, that with effect from 20 October 2008, the Civil File Search Counter will be removed from the "Kaunter Bahagian Kuasa Mati" Level 2, Left Wing and relocated at the "Kaunter Pendaftaran Sivil" Level 1, Left Wing. Please click here to view the notification. Yours faithfully, Dahlia W.M. Lee Chairperson KL Bar Court Liaison Committee

Dear KL Bar members, The KLBC has received an email notification from the Senior Registrar of the Sessions and Magistrates' Courts informing that with effect from 15th October 2008, submission and extraction of draft and fair order / judgment will be made through “Kaunter Pengeluaran dan Penyerahan UPP”. Please click here to view the email notification. Yours faithfully, Dahlia W.M. Lee Chairperson KL Bar Court Liaison Committee

The KLBC has just been notified by the Deputy Registrar of the RKKK 2 of the transfer of cases from RKKK 2 to RKKK 3 as at 08.10.2008. Click here to view the notice and the list of the cases. Yours faithfully Dahlia W.M. Lee Chairperson KL Bar Court Liaison Committee

Kuala Lumpur Bar takes pleasure in announcing that the Chief Justice Y.A.A. Tun Dato' Seri Abdul Hamid Bin Haji Mohamad has accepted our invitation to attend the aforesaid function. As it will be Tun’s last day of work as the Chief Justice, we hope that all will turn up to give Tun a warm sending off. Additionally, please take the once-a-year opportunity to mingle with officers of the judiciary in an informal environment where legal issues are not welcomed! The venue this year is at the trendy upmarket Rick’s Café Casablanca at One-Bangsar and to correspond with that, the theme for the night is “Casablanca” or for the uninitiated, dressing is “the 40’s” era. There is also lined-up for the evening, a spectacular act from a face-change artiste, which has to be seen to be believed! Places are limited so please get your passport to Casablanca as soon as possible- only one week to go! Tickets at RM55.00 each are available at the KL Bar Secretariat (Tel: 26933585) and the Left Wing Ba...

The Court has notified us that the Car Porch area of the Court Complex at Jalan Duta will be turned into a car-free zone to promote ease of access and safety for pedestrians thereat, save in 2 situations, namely, on rainy days and for the physically-disabled lawyers who will be allowed to be dropped off there. In view of this, the court has correspondingly demarcated the immediate external part of the porch as a drop-off zone for lawyers and which will be off limits to vans and taxis accordingly. Any lawyers who have mobility problems have to so inform the guards. Yours faithfully Dahlia W.M. Lee Chairperson Court Liaison Committee

Dear members of the KL Bar We have been notified by the Senior Registrar of the KL Subordinate Courts, Puan Ong Wee Ching that the counter for the filing of new summonses at the KL Subordinate Courts will close early, i.e.at 10.30a.m., on 30th September 2008. Kindly take note of the above. Yours faithfully, Dahlia W.M. Lee Chairperson KL Bar Court Liaison Committee

The KLBC understands that Y.B. Dato' Seri Anwar's case is coming up for mention at the KL Court Complex tomorrow, 24.09.2008. We are unable to confirm if there is going to be any traffic disruption but based on past experience, the previous being on 10.09.2008, many members had difficulties getting into the Court due to heavy traffic and high security. To avoid any inconvenience, members who have matters at the KL Courts tomorrow morning are urged to arrive at the Court Complex early. Kindly take note. Dahlia W.M. Lee Chairperson KL Bar Court Liaison Committee

We have been informed by the High Court that there have been incidences of letters sent via fax by lawyers having not been received by the Civil Division of the High Court because the letters were being sent to the wrong numbers. Arising from this, the Deputy Registrar has furnished us with the list of the fax numbers for the respective Registrars and the Judges' Secretaries of the said Division for members' reference. Click here to view the list. Yours faithfully Dahlia W.M. Lee Chairperson KL Bar Court Liaison Committee

Dear members of the KL Bar, KL Bench & Bar Get-together 2008/09 The annual KL Bench & Bar Get-together is here again. Details of the event are as follows: Date : 17.10.2008 (Friday) Time : 7.30 p.m. onwards Venue : Rick's Cafe Casablanca One Bangsar, Jalan Ara Bangsar Baru Theme : “Casablanca - 1940's” High Court and Session Court Judges, Magistrates and Registrars from both the KL Courts and the Industrial Court Bench are invited, together with the Attorney General and several officers from his chambers as well as several department heads of the Insolvency Office at Putrajaya. Do not miss this once-a-year opportunity to interact with the members of the KL Judiciary and Legal Services in an informal atmosphere. For the first time, we are having a theme, “Casablanca-1940’s” for the event. So please come in 1940’s styles which is an era where dresses highlight ladies with hour-glass figures and gents in sports jacket and tux were the order for ...