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The committees which have been scrapped are Campaign for a
Judicial Commission; Library Committee; Study Loan Committee and Touting. 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.
Comments (3)
Working in the Best Interest of the Malaysian Bar.
written by Tan Peek Guat, Monday, April 07 2008 09:38 am
Bar Council reduces the number of Committees
written by Ragumaren Gopal, Monday, April 07 2008 10:58 am
Dear Mdm President,
Good move BUT maybe we could do more trimming down of committees written by Charles Hector, Monday, April 07 2008 04:38 pm
There can be further reduction in the number of committees .... we have to look at the annual report and the activity level of the committees and merge a few more committees.. Write comment
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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.
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The move by the Bar Council Committee is to be applauded.
It is a wise move indeed. The Bar Council has now decided to cut its "clothes" according to the cloth ! Praise God for the solution found.
Yes, there can be amalgation, there can be the removal of some of the committees.
Over and above all, there can also be the negation of claims to be made by committee members. Those who have decided to serve at the Bar Council Committees ought to serve willingly including the footing of all their personal expenditures involved. If the serving ones are unwilling to forego the claims that they have been allowed so far, then they need to withdraw and decline their offices so that we can put into the committees those other lawyers who are equally 'capable' but added to that, they are also, at the same time, willing to forego to forego all the claims now allowed to the committee members. Cheerio! What about that??? Any volunteers??? Yes, of course, me for one. I humbly offer my services if allowed.
Tan Peek Guat
With all the measures undertaken, surely 4.375 million will be sufficient amount of money for the Bar Committee to undertake all the necessary programmes for the benefit of the Malaysian Bar Members, and pay for the wages of ALL the Secretariat Staff numbering at 83 and not to be further increased.