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Court of Appeal Judge Datuk James Foong Cheng Yuen will head the delegation.

Malaysian Inner Temple Alumni Association secretary, S. Radhakrishnan said this year's celebrations committee under the chairmanship of Lord Justice May, had drawn up an elaborate programme to celebrate the anniversary.

He said the highlight of the celebrations would be the attendance of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburg on June 24.

"They will be attending a service of thanksgiving in the Temple Church to mark the quarter centenary.

An important part of the celebrations will be the production of a full colour illustrated volume offering a rich panaroma of life, law and learning in the Inn over six centuries and more.

"Throughout the celebrations, there will be many events including debates, lectures, music, opera, theatre, open days as well as the black-tie dinner and dance," Radhakrishnan told Bernama Saturday.

The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice in London which may call members to the Bar to entitle them to practise as barristers.

The other Inns are Middle Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn.

More than 9,000 barristers worldwide have been called to the English Bar from the Inner Temple. They are practising law or residing not only in the United Kingdom but also all over the world, especially in the Commonwealth.

Meanwhile, Radhakrishnan said Malaysia had the distinction of being the first country in the Commonwealth to have established an alumni for the barristers of the Inner temple.

He said the alumni was established in September 2006. Its first president was the late Tan Sri Abdul Malek Ahmad, the then court of appeal president.

The number of Malaysian luminaries who have been called to the English Bar from the Inner Temple could easily fill an encyclopaedia.

Among them are the country's first Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Al-Marhum Tuanku Muhammad, the first prime minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, Malaysia's first lord president, Tun Syed Sheh Barakbah and Tun Azmi Mohammad, the country's second lord president.

Other internationally-renowned figures include Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohamad Ali Jinnah of Pakistan and former prime minister of Britain Clement Atlee.

Radhakrishnan said local Inner Temple barristers who wished to participate in the celebration or obtain further information can contact the alumni at tel: 03-20709545.

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