KUALA LUMPUR: Lawyers have the special challenge of maintaining principles of law within a shrinking global economy where cultural attitudes rarely stand still, said Baroness Elizabeth Butler Sloss.
“You too will have your particular challenges here in Malaysia and if an alumni association means anything at all, it means that we all share the same values and outlook.
“As members of a learned profession, we will be better able to maintain the highest ethical standards for which our name stands,” said Lady Butler-Sloss at the launch of the Malaysian Inner Temple Alumni Association at the Royal Selangor Club here yesterday.
“As members of the family of nations, we can contribute to the goodwill that already exists between our two countries and, I am bound to say, the increasingly close links between your nation within Asean and the United Kingdom within an ever-growing European Union,” said Lady Butler-Sloss, who is a Bencher and a past treasurer of the Inner Temple in London.
She said the four Inns - Inner Temple, Middle Temple, Grey's Inn and Lincoln's Inn - had encouraged the movement of more and more young people from all ethnic communities wanting to train as barristers.
“We want anyone who wishes to work at the Bar to be able to do so. In due course, this will widen the disposition of the senior Bar and Judiciary itself.
“We are therefore concerned that the proposals for Deferral of Call, if implemented in its currently proposed form, would turn the clock back by making it more difficult for young people from families without private means to study for the Bar.”
Saying she was aware that these proposals could deter future generations of young student barristers going to Britain, she added that the new British High Commissioner William McCleary had put educational links between the two countries high on his agenda.
Lady Butler-Sloss, who is also Chancellor of the University of the West of England in Bristol, announced that Tan Sri Abdul Malek Ahmad - President of the Court of Appeal, Bencher of Inner Temple London and president of the Malaysian Inner Temple Alumni - would be awarded an Honorary Doctorate in recognition of all he was doing to facilitate these educational links.
About 80 judges and lawyers from the peninsula and Sabah and Sarawak were at the launch. Also present were Inner Temple Sub-Treasurer Patrick Maddams, McCleary and his wife Jeannette Ann Collier and British Council director Gerry Liston.
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