Shortage of judges and backlog of cases have been made criticisms against the Bench i.e. Judges. The public and the Bar had caused these to be highlighted as such. Little that they realize how much the public and the Bar are also to be responsible to cause the same.
The Bar particularly has been making itself popular by poking their heads into the business of others. Busybody!!! One layman's expression to describe it. Showing off the law by prying about IPCMC, Judicial Commission and logging in Kedah. Know this, the Bar cannot even control their own members and badly managed administratively and financially. But yet the Bar try to stand tall by accusing the government of poor financial management, although their stand is tainted with uncertainty.
The Bar is obviously in total failure to walk the talk. Based on the reports covered by the media recently, members of the Bar do not even bother to read circulars, don't respond to requests by the Court of Appeal and yet complain about delays in court. But who causes delays?
LAWYERS CONTRIBUTE TO DELAYS, definitely. If only their clients know that their own lawyers have been applying for postponements and the main cause for the delays!!! Admitting the same would take a miracle and so, put the blame on the courts. So, is it the courts or the lawyers? I invite the President of the Bar Council and the members to look at the BIG mirror first, to correct oneself before attacking others. Roger Tan, being a lawyer and a New Straits Times columnist, also being notorious of accusing everybody but the Bar Council. Therefore, little is known on the bacts that the Council is badly managed, can't even get enough quorum for their own meetings! But yet complain on Members of Parliament of not having quorum!
3 comments:
This Bar and its members you refer to reflects to the one at the Royal Selangor Club after a pint of Carlsberg.
They want to feel like the colonists that once ruled over us just because they belong to an establishment that had links to Great Britain.
You are right about the big mirror. This ain't no British India!
da real deal, that is exactly it... the message is, don't pry unnecessarily.
Good post.
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