Contributed by Selvi Neelakandan, Executive Director, Penang Bar Committee
Tan Beng Chuan, member of the Penang Bar, passed away on 1 June 2012 during a pilgrimage to Kandy, Sri Lanka.
Tan Beng Chuan qualified as a barrister-at-law from the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn and was thereafter admitted to the Malaysian Bar on 2 Nov 1985. At the time of his death, he was the sole proprietor of his firm, Tan Beng Chuan and Co in Penang.
Tan Beng Chuan’s body will be lying in state at the Lecture Hall of Mahindarama Buddhist Temple at No 2 Kampar Road, Penang. Wake services will be held today, 8 June 2012 from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm, while the funeral will be on Saturday, 9 June 2012 at 2:00 pm before proceeding for cremation at the Batu Gantong Crematorium.
The Malaysian Bar offers our deepest condolences and sympathies to the wife, family and friends of the late Tan Beng Chuan. May his soul rest in peace.
HIS NOBLE SPIRIT IS OUR LOSS ... written by Stephen Tan Ban Cheng,
Tuesday, June 12 2012 11:26 pm
It has been my privilege and honour to know the late Tan Beng Chuan who I find over my 12 years of legal practice to have a character as noble as the profession he fought so very hard to join as an articled clerk. Just as his fight to join the profession was relentless, so was his nobility of spirit that blessed the profession in Penang immeasurably. One can always take the late Beng Chuan at his word, despite his reticence. In my experience, he will never ever renege on it and his word being his bond makes practising law a pleasure. He was also ever ready to share his experience, even rightly advising caution in some instances. All one needed to do was just ask and the benefit of his experience would be there to be shares. I have been given to understand that the late Beng Chuan was adorned in the kaseh or robe of a Buddhist novice monk when he breathed his last. I have also been given to understand that to go in such a wonderful garb is considered by the faithful a blessing in Buddhism. I humbly thank Buddha for His way of showing us how highly regarded the late Beng Chuan is in His eyes. The late Beng Chuan is and will be a loss not just to his wife and family, but also the legal profession everywhere which can do with more solid assets like him. May the Lord grant him eternal rest and may eternal light shine upon him. Requiem Aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetuae luceat eis. Requiescant in pace. Amen.
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It has been my privilege and honour to know the late Tan Beng Chuan who I find over my 12 years of legal practice to have a character as noble as the profession he fought so very hard to join as an articled clerk.
Just as his fight to join the profession was relentless, so was his nobility of spirit that blessed the profession in Penang immeasurably.
One can always take the late Beng Chuan at his word, despite his reticence. In my experience, he will never ever renege on it and his word being his bond makes practising law a pleasure.
He was also ever ready to share his experience, even rightly advising caution in some instances. All one needed to do was just ask and the benefit of his experience would be there to be shares.
I have been given to understand that the late Beng Chuan was adorned in the kaseh or robe of a Buddhist novice monk when he breathed his last. I have also been given to understand that to go in such a wonderful garb is considered by the faithful a blessing in Buddhism. I humbly thank Buddha for His way of showing us how highly regarded the late Beng Chuan is in His eyes.
The late Beng Chuan is and will be a loss not just to his wife and family, but also the legal profession everywhere which can do with more solid assets like him.
May the Lord grant him eternal rest and may eternal light shine upon him.
Requiem Aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetuae luceat eis. Requiescant in pace. Amen.