KUALA LUMPUR, Sun: As part of its cost–cutting measure, the Bar Council decided yesterday to reduce the number of committees to 27 from 36 previously.
The committees which have been scrapped are Campaign for a
Judicial Commission; Library Committee; Study Loan Committee and Touting.
The committees which will be merged are – Ad Hoc Committee on the Immigration
Act with Law Reform Committee; Lawcare Charity & Welfare Committee with Lawcare
Fund Management Committee and Legal Profession Committee with Ad Hoc Committee
on Anti Money Laundering.
The Solicitors Remuneration Enforcement Committee will now become a sub–committee of the Conveyancing Practice Committee. It will be chaired by former Bar Councillor Ong Siew Wan while its former chair Asmadi Awang will now be its deputy chair.
Roger Tan, who has chaired the Conveyancing Practice Committee for the last 2 terms, will now chair the National Young Lawyers Committee. Terengganu State Bar Representative, Lee Leng Guan will now chair the Conveyaning Practice Committee.
Edmund Bon, the previous chair of National Young Lawyers Committee, will now concentrate solely on human rights work as the chair of the Human Rights Committee.
Datuk Hj. Kuthubul Zaman Bukhari, Lalitha Menon, George Varughese, Christopher Leong, Ravindra Kumar, Ng Kong Peng, Cecil Rajendra, Ragunath Kesavan, Steven Thiruneelakandan and Yeo Yang Poh will continue to chair their previous committees.
The following have been appointed to head the respective committees.
No. | Chairperson | Committee |
1. | Dato' Ramachelvam Manimuthu | Ad hoc Committee on the Immigration Act (Merged with Law Reform & Special Areas Committee). |
2. | Mr. G. Balakrishnan | Ad Hoc Committee on No Fault Liability Scheme |
3. | Mr. Shan Theivanthiran | Ad Hoc Committee on Rules and Regulations |
4. | Datuk Hj. Kuthubul Zaman Bukhari | Arbitration & Alternative Dispute Resolution |
5. | En. Syed Azimal Amir Bin Syed Abu Bakar | Bahasa Melayu |
6. | Mr. Lee Leng Guan | Conveyancing Practice. The Solicitors Remuneration Enforcement Committee will now become its sub–committee. |
7. | Mr. K. Mohan a/l K Kumaran | Corporate and Commercial Law |
8. | Mr Hisyam Teh Poh Teik | Criminal Law |
9. | Ms. Lalitha Menon | Family Law |
10. | Mr. George Varughese | Finance Committee |
11. | Mr. Christopher Leong | GATS |
12. | Mr. Edmund Bon | Human Rights |
13. | Mr. Ravindra Kumar | Industrial Court Practice |
14. | En. Syed Azimal Amir Bin Syed Abu Bakar | Intellectual Property |
15. | Cik Yasmeen bte. Hj. Muhamad Shariff | Islamic Finance |
16. | Mr. Indran Rajalingam | Lawcare Charity & Welfare (Merged with LawCare Fund Management ) |
17. | Mr. Ng Kong Peng | Legal Profession (Merged with Ad Hoc Committee on Anti Money Laundering) |
18. |
Mr. Cecil Rajendra Haji Sulaiman Abdullah (Deputy) |
National Legal Aid |
19. | Mr. Roger Tan | National Young Lawyers |
20. | Mr. Ragunath Kesavan | Professional Indemnity Insurance |
21. | Mr. Steven Thiruneelakandan | Professional Standards and Development |
22. | Mr. R. Kalianan Subramaniam | Publications |
23. | Mr. Yeo Yang Poh | Shipping and Admiralty Law |
24. | Mr. Tony Woon Yeow Thong | Sports |
25. | Dato' Peter Mooney | Standing Committee to Review the LPA |
26. | En. Anuwar B Mohd | Syariah Laws |
27. | Datuk Muhammad Shafee bin Md Abdullah | Rules |