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Hilary Tilby discusses the dangers of using alcohol and drugs as coping mechanisms for dealing with a stressful practice and highlights the help at hand.
When you are subject to longterm stress, the result is that you feel grim – not sleeping well; unable to think clearly; losing your joie de vivre; losing confidence in your own judgement and abilities etc. Naturally, you want to feel better, so what do you do? If you are, as is likely to be the case, the normal legal personality (unable to delegate, driven, perfectionist, the A type personality) then you look for a quick fix, because, by definition, the legal personality is too busy to wait for anything to change. It must be immediate. And what has an immediate effect? Nicotine, sugar, and more potentially damaging, alcohol and drugs.
KUALA LUMPUR (April 7, 2010): Local authorities are being mobilised to work with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), NGOs and other groups to come up with an framework to assist refugees in the country.
The groups got together at a seminar held at the Malaysian Bar Council headquarters today to discuss action plans based on recommendations prepared by the Bar Council.
“The recommendations are to assist the creation of an administrative and legislative framework to deal with the refugees,” said Datuk M. Ramachelvam, chairman of the Bar Council’s Sub Committee on Migrant, Refugees and Immigration Affairs.
“EVIDENCE: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE”, 4TH EDITION by Dato' Sri Augustine Paul
The fourth edition of “Evidence: Practice and Procedure” provides legal practitioners with an updated in-depth explanation of evidentiary issues which arise at trial and on the appeals. The third edition of this book was published in 2003 and gained acceptance and credibility as the leading book on the law of evidence in Malaysia. This edition updates the developments in the law of evidence from 2003 to May 2009. Long awaited and much in demand, this book highlights the application of the various provisions of the Evidence Act 1950 on local case law.
THE state-level MyConstitution Campaign, a national campaign to promote awareness and understanding of the Federal Constitution, will be launched in Kuching on Saturday.
Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud and Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Tan Sri Richard Malanjum will jointly officiate at the launch.
The campaign, the first of its kind, aims to reach out to the 28 million Malaysians through the distribution of booklets called Rakyat Guides.
More than 2,000 orang asli made history when they descended on Putrajaya on March 17 to protest an amendment affecting their land rights. The orang asli had for the first time stood up as a united force. Tijah Yok Chopil of the Network of Orang Asli Villages, one of the main organisers of the march, tells ALYAA ALHADJRI what land means to her people
CAN you tell us a little bit about yourself?
My village is in Bidor, Perak. There are nine of us in my family – all married. Three of us are looking after our mother, who has been paralysed for nearly five years.
I finished my secondary school and took an advanced diploma in early childhood education. Right now, I’m living in the village and doing kerja kampung – harvesting oil palm, planting vegetables.
MALAYSIA is prepared to play an active role in the protection and advancement of women and children in the region and across the world.
Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said Kuala Lumpur had established the mechanism to promote their right to live in peace and dignity, as laid down in the convention of the rights of children (CRC) and convention on elimination of discrimination against women (CEDAW).
Shahrizat's statement, issued after the launching of the Asean Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Rights of Women and Children at Vietnam's national convention centre yesterday (ACWC), was read by Information, Communication and Culture Deputy Minister Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum.
PUTRAJAYA:The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) is taking the fight to another level; it is posting the names of those convicted of graft on its website.
The exercise began yesterday with 52 names in the “Name and Shame” database.
MACC deputy chief commissioner Datuk Mohd Shukri Abdull said this was the latest initiative by the commission to deter graft.
The biggest challenge facing the Prime Minister is political will to bring about the much needed changes under the New Economic Model.
THE Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a partisan as “a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person; especially one exhibiting blind, prejudiced, and unreasoning allegiance”.
Part of our problem is that there are just too many such people in the country.
KUALA KUBU BARU: The Selangor state executive council set the tone yesterday for the upcoming April 25 by-election by announcing a plan to provide titles to squatters occupying government land for the past 15 years.
Also benefiting from the new policy will be farmers on Temporary Occupancy Licence land, for the same duration.
The exco held its weekly meeting at the district office here, in the heart of the Hulu Selangor constituency. Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim said the titles would be in the form of leasehold grants and applicants could opt for 99-year or 60-year leases when they submitted their documents.
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Workshop on Financial Planning (18 May 2012) Organised by the Kuala Lumpur Bar Professional Development Committee, this workshop will take place at 10:00 am, at the Kuala Lumpur Bar Auditorium, on 18 May 2012 (Friday). The workshop will be conducted by Chooi Kim Ying. Click on the link above for more details.
Seminar on an Introduction to the Industrial Relations Act (23 May 2012) Organised by the Kuala Lumpur Bar Professional Development Committee, this seminar will take place at 3:00 pm, at the Kuala Lumpur Bar Auditorium, on 23 May 2012 (Wednesday). The seminar will be conducted by Wong Keat Ching. Click on the link above for more details.
Conference on Competition Law (31 May 2012) Organised by Bar Council with the support of LexisNexis, this conference will take place at 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, at Renaissance Kuala Lumpur Hotel, on 31 May 2012 (Thursday). For more details or to register, please contact Vilashini Vijayan (03-2050 2095; vila@malaysianbar.org.my). Click on the link above for more details.
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