The Kuala Lumpur Bar Blog

Climate Change and Addressing Global Warming The Kuala Lumpur Bar Committee (KLBC) has felt it timely to join the chorus of the environmentally-conscious and those who care, in expressing serious concern over greenhouse gas concentrations (derived from excessive carbon emission) through industries, transportation, deforestation and settlements, which by slow degrees are surely altering the chemistry of the Earth’s atmosphere, if left unattended by the world’s nations. The net effect of this problem is enough to cause climate change and its severe environmental fallout. Given that this is an area of international concern, already felt and amplified through extreme weather conditions such as rising sea levels, inundation, storm surge, erosion and other coastal hazards, it is not surprising that The United Nations has recently warned that tens of millions of people living in the world’s biggest cities are highly exposed to “mega disaster.” In view of the magnitude of the pro...

Jawatankuasa Peguam Kuala Lumpur menyelar kenyataan yang dikeluarkan oleh Ketua UMNO Bahagian Cheras, Datuk Wira Syed Ali Alhabshee mencabar Majlis Peguam untuk didaftarkan sebagai pertubuhan politik. Majlis Peguam Malaysia adalah sebuah badan professional yang tidak cenderung pada mana-mana parti politik. Ia tidak pernah dan tidak akan terpengaruh dengan aliran politik mana-mana parti politik dan hanya berhasrat untuk menegakkan keadilan melalui keluhuran perlembagaan dan kedaulatan undang-undang. Berkenaan dengan insiden penangkapan lima (5) orang peguam daripada Pusat Bantuan Guaman tersebut, Jawatankuasa Peguam Kuala Lumpur ingin menegaskan bahawa ia adalah satu kewajipan peguam untuk memberi nasihat kepada anak guam sekiranya anak guam memohon untuk perkhidmatan peguam di mana hak-hak untuk berjumpa dengan peguam juga adalah dinyatakan jelas di Kod Prosidur Jenayah. Jawatankuasa Peguam Kuala Lumpur mengecam penahanan tersebut dan melihatnya sebagai intimidasi dari pihak polis unt...

Kuala Lumpur Bar Committee demands the immediate release of the 5 lawyers arrested on 7th May 2009 At about 11.30pm on 7th May 2009, 5 members of the Kuala Lumpur Bar were arrested by the Royal Malaysian Police Force at Brickfields Police Station. All 5 lawyers are also members of the Bar Council Legal Aid Centre of Kuala Lumpur, which included the Chairperson and Secretary of the Legal Aid Centre. 15 people were arrested by the Police at the Brickfields Police Station, just before the arrest of the 5 lawyers. The group of 15 were part of a larger group, holding a candlelight vigil, in response to the arrest and remand of Political Scientist, Wong Chin Huat since 6th May 2009. The 5 lawyers, in their course of duty as Advocates & Solicitors and as members of the Legal Aid Centre, went to the aid of the 15 arrested people. They were arrested instead. The arrest of the 5 lawyers who were merely discharging their duties, is an affront to the laws of the country and a lack of common co...