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• Only 23 in Bar Council elections

KUALA LUMPUR, Sun: Only 23 members filed their nomination papers to run for the Bar Council elections for the 2009/2010 term when nominations closed last Friday, October 31 compared to the last few years when the annual election used to attract more than 30 members out of 12,600 members of the Malaysian Bar.

Two current Bar Councillors will not be seeking re-election. They are Roger Tan and Yasmeen bte. Hj. Muhamad Shariff.

Tan who has been a Council member since 2004 has served in various positions, notably the Deputy Chair of IT & Cyberlaws Committee, Chairman of the Conveyancing Practice Committee, Chairman of the Solicitors Remuneration Order Enforcement Committee, Organising Chairman of the 14th Malaysian Law Conference and Chairman of the National Young Lawyers Committee. Tan will also gradually retire as the Malaysian Bar Webmaster or better known as 'MBW' from December next month so that the IT staff from the Secretariat will take over the management of the Malaysian Bar Website when Tan's term ends in March next year.

When contacted, Tan said: "I have already given my best in the last 4 years in serving the Bar. It's time to move on so that others will have an opportunity to do so."

Yasmeen currently chairs the Islamic Finance Committee and she has also served on the Council for several years.

When contacted, Yasmeen explained her reason for not running this year: "Basically, it is to allow others a chance to serve the Malaysian Bar and also because the classes for the Executive Diploma in Islamic Banking organised by the Bar Council clash with the Bar Council monthly meetings on Saturdays and I will fail in my duty if I do not attend the Bar Council meetings."

Members of the Bar will receive the ballot papers this week by post and they may vote for not more than 12 persons - the number of seats available for the 2009/2010 term at the national level. Pursuant to section 50 of the Legal Profession Act, 1976, members must cast and return their  ballots on or before November 30, 2008. The ballots will be counted on December 1, 2008 and hopefully the results will be announced on the same day.

The newly elected members will only assume office after the next annual general meeting of the Bar which is scheduled to be held in March next year. They will be joined by 22 other State Bar Chairs and Representatives after the State Bars hold their AGMs in February next year.

A special section has also been created for the Bar Council Elections. Pursuant to the Resolution passed at the AGM held on March 17, 2001, each candidate's proposers have also prepared a brief write-up of their proposed candidate. To view the write-ups, please click on the respective picture or name of the candidate as shown below.

Members may also post questions or queries to the respective candidates but the candidates are entitled but not obliged to respond to them.

Andrew Khoo Chin Hock			Azmi Bin Tan Sri Dr Moh Rais			Cecil Rajendra				Christopher Leong Sau Foo
Colin Andrew Pereira			Dahlia Lee Wooi Mien			Dato' Haji Hamzah Bin Mohd Kassim				Dato' Muhammad Shafee Abdullah
Dato' Hj Kuthubul Zaman Bin Bukhari			Edmund Bon Tai Soon			George Varughese				H.R. Dipendra
Hendon Mohamed			Jahaberdeen Mohamed Yunoos			Lee Swee Seng				Lim Chee Wee
Low Beng Choo			P Suppiah			Razlan Hadri				Steven Thiruneelakandan
Haji Sulaiman Abdullah				Yeo Yang Poh					Zarizana Abdul Aziz

The list of attendance of Council Members at Meetings from 15 March 2008 to 11 October 2008 is as follows:

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