Shaharudin B Ali
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Sijil Anual after 100 years - 2012/09/05 12:13
Dear Sir/Madam,
FORMS OF SIJIL ANUAL
COME 2014, Malaysian Bar in its modern form will be 100 years old, whether the Council realises this or not. The Malaysian Bar embraces change, welcomes positive gradual transformation and continuously find ways to improve the professional life of its members.
From that perspective, we see, every single year, over the last many years of its existence, the highly repetitive, mundane, and cumbersome process of submitting the yearly Sijil Annual starts.
The Bar Council should quickly put together a task force to simplify the process and if possible to do away with the existing forms and associated processes. The reasons are:
Every year without fail, a member has to give the same, repetitive information or particulars to the Bar Council. Some of the said particulars are:
1. His/her full name [as per IC]
2. His identify card
3. His/her race
4. Petition number
5. Admission date
6. Work history etc etc
It is understandable that in each year, a member has to notify the Council of any change of address and/or mobile/telephone numbers etc. When this happens, he needs to informs the Council under the present rules [not relevant for the SA form purposes].
The above information [and other repetitive information] is always in the possession of the Bar Council. Indeed, there are other particulars that are wholly unnecessary for a member to keep feeding the BC year in and year out. The council would be in the right position to extract those data from the members’ records ie. the repetitive information, and have them hot-linked to future electronic [online] forms for Sijil Annual renewal.
The new online system should have innovative merging capabilities and self completing features, once called up by the member accessing the online SA portal. The end result is that this new online system will put an end the current nightmare This new system will also require minimum intervention by members and officers of the Bar Council resulting in improved, speedier if not more reliable process. The key is not to design the system based on the current form format. The idea is do a re-engineering of the entire process, if necessary with the assistance of the High Court registry – so that a system approved SA would automatically trigger an approval for a matching Practising Certificate – hence the need to redefine the entire process.
I would offer my support and encouragement to the Council for looking into this proposal, set aside a good budget to make it a reality. This budget will be wholly appropriate given the end result of the transformation. It would be welcome by members provided it simplifies the entire process.
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