contributed by Dato' V. C. George
May it please Your Ladyship,
Some of those present here this morning may be taken aback to see me in the robes of an advocate at the Bar of this Honourable Court in that I am on record of having expressed the view that it is not proper for one who has been a Judge of our Superior Courts i.e. the High Court or the Court of Appeal or the Federal Court, to appear at the Bar of any of our Courts. In as much that cliché “Justice must be done and seen to be done” is a truism, so is the statement that a judge whether he be a magistrate, President Sessions Court or of one of the Superior Courts has to carry out his duties objectively and seen to be doing so, which it would well nigh be impossible to do when counsel appearing, before the Court had been a judge of the High Court or Court of Appeal, or of the Federal Court. And you can imagine the discomfiture of some young lawyer adversary of the former Judge having to object to some position taken by that former judge in his new capacity as an advocate!
My Lady, I trust that I will be forgiven for breaking my own imposed rule on this occasion, this reference to departed brethren at the Bar, to be permitted to respectfully address Your Ladyship on behalf of the Bar Council, which institution I have in days gone by on many an occasion, represented, in our Courts and elsewhere.
What has befallen on me is indeed a melancholic duty, to say a few words in tribute to the memory of two well–known members of the Bar, the Late Dato’ Haji Abu Mansor bin Ali for whom the bell tolled on the 2nd April 2008 and the late Mr Khoo Eng Chin for whom the call came on 13th July 2008.
Dato’ Hj Abu Mansor from Kg Tengah, Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan, after a short stint as a school master, was called to the English Bar from Lincoln’s Inn in 1963 after which began his distinguished career in the Legal and Judicial Service working his way from being a cadet magistrate in 1963 to become the Head of both the Advisory Division and the Civil Division at the Attorney General’s Chambers in 1980, previous to which he had played an important role in each of the States Penang, Trengganu and Selangor as the State Legal Advisor.
While serving in the Chambers, he petitioned to be admitted to the Malaysian Bar, and in 1981 he was admitted to the Bar of this Court. However, he continued in the Public Service in the Chambers.
Dato’ Hj Abu Mansor was elevated to the Bench of the High Court of Borneo in 1984 where he served at Kota Kinabalu until his transfer to Johore Bahru and then on to Kuala Lumpur, with distinction. In 1994, Abu Mansor and I and a few other High Court Judges were elevated to the newly formed Court of Appeal. In 1999, he was promoted to the Federal Court. Shortly after his retirement from the Bench, having attained the statutory retirement age for Judges, of 66 years in 2001, the Judge, had himself registered, to start a new career as a practising member of the Bar. He started off as a partner in Azlan & Loh and later became a Consultant with C W Loh & Associates. The Judge was also registered with the Regional Centre for Arbitration Kuala Lumpur and had been involved in some important arbitrations.
Among awards that the Judge received was the PPT and the DPMT from His Royal Highness the Sultan of Trengganu.
If I may strike a personal note, Dato’ Abu Mansor was a good friend of mine. I had known him from the days when he was a senior member of the Chambers and we got closer to each other when I was head of the Commercial Division of the High Court in Kuala Lumpur and he was in the Appellate and Special Powers Division and a prominent member of what was vulgarly known as the Judges Nasi Lemak Club, the faction of judges in Kuala Lumpur not popular with either Tun Hamid Omar or Tun Yusoff Chin! Abu Mansor loved his food and usually planned the lunch menu for the Nasi Lemak Club. The Judge had a dry sense of humour and a great command of the English Language both of which he used tellingly in conversation and in his judgments. His genial temperament never failed to produce an air of merriment and good cheer among his brother judges. He was a humble man and inclined to be self effacing. You can have an understanding of the man, from what he had to say when he was welcomed by a large crowd of the legal fraternity, to the Bench at Kota Kinabalu on 25th October 1984.
Speaking of his new position as a Judge of a Superior Court he said,
He then went on in his speech, at some length, to suggest what a good judge should be. I respectfully suggest that all lawyers and in particular judges should read what Abu Mansor had to say of being a good judge. It’s in the Notes to [1984] 2 MLJ. I will read a couple of sentences,
Dato’ Abu Mansor was a good man and a good judge and a credit to the Bench and to the Malaysian Legal Community.
I am very happy to see that his good wife, my friend To’ Puan Hajjah Faridah, is here with her daughter–in–law, Nor Ashikin.
There is one grandchild, grandson Basil who, spent a lot of his time growing up, with his grandparents. I remember him as a toddler and then as a little boy, the apple of Abu Mansor’s eyes. The toddler is now twenty and reading law at Help University College.
Abu Mansor was a good husband to and the best friend of his wife, To’ Puan Faridah, a good father and a doting grandfather and a close friend to countless number of people. I have no doubt that many of Justice Dato’ Haji Abu Mansor’s friends and relatives and certainly his dear wife To’ Puan Faridah will in consoling themselves find consonance in the epitaph,
I now move on to pay tribute to the memory of the late Mr Khoo Eng Chin.
I arrived in London on a Thursday in April 1952 to read law from Lincolns Inn. That Sunday I went rowing on the Serpentine, a lake in Hyde Park, with a newly made friend, Lorraine E Osman, when we saw this gangling thin Chinese, his trousers held up with braces, red faced through struggling with his oars. Lorraine E Osman introduced us.
That’s how I met Khoo Eng Chin on a Sunday in mid April 1952. Eng Chin shared a room, in Madam Gluxman’s lodging house, an old Victorian Mansion in Belzise Park fringing Hampstead Heath, with Wong Sai Heng who eventually became the senior partner of Presgrave & Mathews of Penang. I regularly visited them at Madam Gluxman’s. It is not true that the only reason I did that was because Madam Gluxman had some 30 young Lady lodgers! Khoo Eng Chin and I were the closest of friends from April 1952 until he passed away 56 years later. I believe that of his friends, I was the last person to whom he talked, before he gently passed on from this terrestrial abode on 13th July 2008.
Khoo Eng Chin was born on the 22nd May 1932 in Penang into that great and ancient Penang family, the Khoo family. Eng Chin’s name is engraved on the walls of the Khoo Kongsi. After scoring impressive results in the Senior Cambridge examination, from Penang Free School, he proceeded to London to read for the Bar from the Middle Temple. He was called to the English Bar in 1955 and eventually was admitted to the Malaysian Bar and commenced his distinguished career at the Bar initially practising law in Seremban as a Legal Assistant to the late H.W. Tan at RM400 p.m, half the salary paid to legal assistants in British run firms in those days.
In 1957, I joined a Mr Guha as a Legal Assistant in Seremban. I was paid only RM350. It was tough getting jobs in legal firms in those days, which is why Eng Chin from Penang and I from Klang ended up in Seremban accepting jobs at that sort of meagre salary. In my case, I was so embarrassed that I lied to my parents and told them that I was paid RM500!
Within two years, Eng Chin and I set up George & Khoo – we had drawn cards to decide whether it should be Khoo & George or George & Khoo. And we became a force to be reckoned with as advocates doing all kinds of work. Eventually we opened a branch in KL and Eng Chin took charge of it. As we were not getting the real benefits of partnership running those two branches we had to and split, Eng Chin joining up with G T S Sidhu to form Khoo & Sidhu in K.L., I with H W Tan as H W Tan & George in Seremban.
Eng Chin went on to become the top specialist in Malaysia in insurance law in general and in particular insurance law pertaining to motor vehicles and road accidents.
From the early 1960s, both Eng Chin and I were actively involved in the activities of the Bar Committees and of the Bar Council. Those were the days when the young Turks were getting a little tired of the old foggies running the Bar Committees and the Bar Council and we were inching our way in, to take over. So, we started the trend which has now become a way of life in Bar Politics of the impatient young nudging out the old.
Eventually Eng Chin served as Chairman of the Selangor (& KL) Bar Committee as I also did. From the early 60s, Eng Chin was year after year elected to the Bar Council always obtaining the highest number of votes, year after year beating me by a few votes. In those days, when the Bar was small and everybody knew everybody, Khoo Eng Chin was easily the most popular member of the Bar whose integrity was unquestionable, who conducted himself with unfailing courtesy and with the dignity expected of a leader of the Bar.
What the then Chairman of the Bar Council, R R Chelliah said in 1965 of one of our great advocates, S K Das can be said of Mr Khoo Eng Chin,
Mr Khoo was always ready to impart his knowledge and the benefit of his wide and vast experience to those younger members of the Bar who went to him to seek advice and assistance on legal problems and for that matter on personal problems. Our late brother was the epitome of what a good lawyer should be and earned the respect, not only of the members of the Bar but also of all of the judges before whom he has appeared which he did in those days almost every other day!
Khoo Eng Chin had been a top notch sportsman. In his school days, he played soccer and badminton at which he excelled. In our student days in London, I have seen him beat the great Eddy Choong in practice matches!
I think that it was in 1954 that he took part in the London Badminton championship which attracted some of the top players of the game including Khoo Eng Chin and Eddy Choong, for the men’s singles title. Eng Chin was at the height of his prowess as a singles player and we, some of his friends and I, assessed that the only impediment to his winning the singles trophy was Eddy Choong. It fell on me to persuade Eddy to drop out of the tournament which I successfully achieved – cost me an arm and a leg, hosting dinner at the premier Chinese restaurant in London in Leicester Square. Eng Chin became the London singles champion of 1954. Eng Chin continued playing quality badminton representing the Malaysian Bar in the Bench and Bar games well into his 50s. I recollect when he was in his late forties scheduled to play 2nd or 3rd singles for Malaysia in the Bench and Bar Games at Singapore, some of us, including Eng Chin’s wife, Lilian Chooi Kut Chan, were watching him warming up for his game when we overheard a conversation carried on near us – a young Singaporean was upbraiding the Singapore Badminton Captain “I’ve spent a lot of time practising for the tournament but you have pitted me against that old man”. He obviously had no inkling that Khoo Eng Chin in his time had been among the top 20 singles world players of badminton and still a force to be reckoned with. Lillian in indignation turned to me and said “Good heavens, he is referring to Eng Chin”. She climbed over the barrier separating us from the badminton courts and went up to Eng Chin, earnestly spoke to him and returned to where we were, “I told him not to come home if he did not thrash that young man” which Eng Chin proceeded to do clinically, methodically and mercilessly. He played in the style of the great Wong Peng Soon – stroke play, returning every shot to the base line and then would come the killer drop shot. He beat him 15:5, 15:5 and no doubt was welcomed home.
Khoo Eng Chin married Lillian Chooi Kut Chan in 1959 or 1960. She used to be a school teacher. Lillian is a sister of Chooi Mun Sou of Chooi & Co. The Khoo’s two sons, Andrew and Mark are members of the Bar and are partners of Khoo & Sidhu, Eng Chin’s old firm, and are present here today. Mrs Lillian Khoo had travelled to Tasmania, with some family friends including Dato’ V P Nathan and Datin and Dato’ Kam Woon Wah and they could not get back in time for this reference. She has asked me to convey her respects to Your Ladyship and her thanks to the Bar and the Judiciary for organising this reference.
My Lady, on behalf of the Bar of Malaysia, I offer our deepest condolences to Andrew & Mark and to their dear mother, my friend Lillian Chooi Kut Chan and to all those near and dear to my old friend, Khoo Eng Chin.
In ending this eulogy, I can say, without fear of contradiction, that both Justice Dato’ Haji Abu Mansor and Khoo Eng Chin were good people who had each completed full and useful lives and have gone on, leaving good memories to all who knew them and it can be said of each of them,
My Lady, our individual faiths should help us believe that,
I respectfully move that a record of this reference be kept in the archives of the Court and a copy be provided to the respective families of those to whom we have in our inadequate ways paid tribute to this morning.
May it please Your Ladyship,
Some of those present here this morning may be taken aback to see me in the robes of an advocate at the Bar of this Honourable Court in that I am on record of having expressed the view that it is not proper for one who has been a Judge of our Superior Courts i.e. the High Court or the Court of Appeal or the Federal Court, to appear at the Bar of any of our Courts. In as much that cliché “Justice must be done and seen to be done” is a truism, so is the statement that a judge whether he be a magistrate, President Sessions Court or of one of the Superior Courts has to carry out his duties objectively and seen to be doing so, which it would well nigh be impossible to do when counsel appearing, before the Court had been a judge of the High Court or Court of Appeal, or of the Federal Court. And you can imagine the discomfiture of some young lawyer adversary of the former Judge having to object to some position taken by that former judge in his new capacity as an advocate!
My Lady, I trust that I will be forgiven for breaking my own imposed rule on this occasion, this reference to departed brethren at the Bar, to be permitted to respectfully address Your Ladyship on behalf of the Bar Council, which institution I have in days gone by on many an occasion, represented, in our Courts and elsewhere.
What has befallen on me is indeed a melancholic duty, to say a few words in tribute to the memory of two well–known members of the Bar, the Late Dato’ Haji Abu Mansor bin Ali for whom the bell tolled on the 2nd April 2008 and the late Mr Khoo Eng Chin for whom the call came on 13th July 2008.
Dato’ Hj Abu Mansor from Kg Tengah, Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan, after a short stint as a school master, was called to the English Bar from Lincoln’s Inn in 1963 after which began his distinguished career in the Legal and Judicial Service working his way from being a cadet magistrate in 1963 to become the Head of both the Advisory Division and the Civil Division at the Attorney General’s Chambers in 1980, previous to which he had played an important role in each of the States Penang, Trengganu and Selangor as the State Legal Advisor.
While serving in the Chambers, he petitioned to be admitted to the Malaysian Bar, and in 1981 he was admitted to the Bar of this Court. However, he continued in the Public Service in the Chambers.
Dato’ Hj Abu Mansor was elevated to the Bench of the High Court of Borneo in 1984 where he served at Kota Kinabalu until his transfer to Johore Bahru and then on to Kuala Lumpur, with distinction. In 1994, Abu Mansor and I and a few other High Court Judges were elevated to the newly formed Court of Appeal. In 1999, he was promoted to the Federal Court. Shortly after his retirement from the Bench, having attained the statutory retirement age for Judges, of 66 years in 2001, the Judge, had himself registered, to start a new career as a practising member of the Bar. He started off as a partner in Azlan & Loh and later became a Consultant with C W Loh & Associates. The Judge was also registered with the Regional Centre for Arbitration Kuala Lumpur and had been involved in some important arbitrations.
Among awards that the Judge received was the PPT and the DPMT from His Royal Highness the Sultan of Trengganu.
If I may strike a personal note, Dato’ Abu Mansor was a good friend of mine. I had known him from the days when he was a senior member of the Chambers and we got closer to each other when I was head of the Commercial Division of the High Court in Kuala Lumpur and he was in the Appellate and Special Powers Division and a prominent member of what was vulgarly known as the Judges Nasi Lemak Club, the faction of judges in Kuala Lumpur not popular with either Tun Hamid Omar or Tun Yusoff Chin! Abu Mansor loved his food and usually planned the lunch menu for the Nasi Lemak Club. The Judge had a dry sense of humour and a great command of the English Language both of which he used tellingly in conversation and in his judgments. His genial temperament never failed to produce an air of merriment and good cheer among his brother judges. He was a humble man and inclined to be self effacing. You can have an understanding of the man, from what he had to say when he was welcomed by a large crowd of the legal fraternity, to the Bench at Kota Kinabalu on 25th October 1984.
Speaking of his new position as a Judge of a Superior Court he said,
“Speaking of this onerous job I can only describe myself as a student
judge for up to this moment I consider myself to be still learning to
be not just a judge but to be a good judge. What I have to offer is my
experience as a legal and judicial officer for twenty years and it is
my hope and prayer that it is sufficient to equip me to discharge the
function of a judge but as I read what being a good judge involves,
sometimes I cannot help feeling a little apprehensive perchance I
cannot make it. I can only say I will try my best”. You can see that he was indeed humble and self effacing. |
He then went on in his speech, at some length, to suggest what a good judge should be. I respectfully suggest that all lawyers and in particular judges should read what Abu Mansor had to say of being a good judge. It’s in the Notes to [1984] 2 MLJ. I will read a couple of sentences,
“It is said that a good judge must be patient, courteous and
understanding. By this I understand, among other things, to mean I
must have the capacity to listen patiently and must not intervene
unnecessarily when sitting even if I have the itch to descend into the
body of the court and to cross–examine the witness (in the manner in
which) he should be cross–examined. If I have to intervene then it
must be done gently and as carefully as I can lest I will be treading
on a perilous path. In this connection, I am told in the United States
not long ago a Judge put to a witness a question and one of the
attorneys asked the Judge on whose behalf he was putting the question.
“What does it matter?” roared the judge. “Only this”, said the
attorney, “if the question is put on behalf of my adversary I object to
it, while if you are putting it on my behalf I withdraw it”.
You can see his high standards and that mischievous sense of humour creeping in. |
Dato’ Abu Mansor was a good man and a good judge and a credit to the Bench and to the Malaysian Legal Community.
I am very happy to see that his good wife, my friend To’ Puan Hajjah Faridah, is here with her daughter–in–law, Nor Ashikin.
There is one grandchild, grandson Basil who, spent a lot of his time growing up, with his grandparents. I remember him as a toddler and then as a little boy, the apple of Abu Mansor’s eyes. The toddler is now twenty and reading law at Help University College.
Abu Mansor was a good husband to and the best friend of his wife, To’ Puan Faridah, a good father and a doting grandfather and a close friend to countless number of people. I have no doubt that many of Justice Dato’ Haji Abu Mansor’s friends and relatives and certainly his dear wife To’ Puan Faridah will in consoling themselves find consonance in the epitaph,
“We shall remember
While the light lives yet
And in the night–time
We will not forget
And what shall be his epitaph? Surely this:
He was a man take him all for all
We shall not look upon his like again.
While the light lives yet
And in the night–time
We will not forget
And what shall be his epitaph? Surely this:
He was a man take him all for all
We shall not look upon his like again.
Mr. Khoo Eng Chin
I now move on to pay tribute to the memory of the late Mr Khoo Eng Chin.
I arrived in London on a Thursday in April 1952 to read law from Lincolns Inn. That Sunday I went rowing on the Serpentine, a lake in Hyde Park, with a newly made friend, Lorraine E Osman, when we saw this gangling thin Chinese, his trousers held up with braces, red faced through struggling with his oars. Lorraine E Osman introduced us.
That’s how I met Khoo Eng Chin on a Sunday in mid April 1952. Eng Chin shared a room, in Madam Gluxman’s lodging house, an old Victorian Mansion in Belzise Park fringing Hampstead Heath, with Wong Sai Heng who eventually became the senior partner of Presgrave & Mathews of Penang. I regularly visited them at Madam Gluxman’s. It is not true that the only reason I did that was because Madam Gluxman had some 30 young Lady lodgers! Khoo Eng Chin and I were the closest of friends from April 1952 until he passed away 56 years later. I believe that of his friends, I was the last person to whom he talked, before he gently passed on from this terrestrial abode on 13th July 2008.
Khoo Eng Chin was born on the 22nd May 1932 in Penang into that great and ancient Penang family, the Khoo family. Eng Chin’s name is engraved on the walls of the Khoo Kongsi. After scoring impressive results in the Senior Cambridge examination, from Penang Free School, he proceeded to London to read for the Bar from the Middle Temple. He was called to the English Bar in 1955 and eventually was admitted to the Malaysian Bar and commenced his distinguished career at the Bar initially practising law in Seremban as a Legal Assistant to the late H.W. Tan at RM400 p.m, half the salary paid to legal assistants in British run firms in those days.
In 1957, I joined a Mr Guha as a Legal Assistant in Seremban. I was paid only RM350. It was tough getting jobs in legal firms in those days, which is why Eng Chin from Penang and I from Klang ended up in Seremban accepting jobs at that sort of meagre salary. In my case, I was so embarrassed that I lied to my parents and told them that I was paid RM500!
Within two years, Eng Chin and I set up George & Khoo – we had drawn cards to decide whether it should be Khoo & George or George & Khoo. And we became a force to be reckoned with as advocates doing all kinds of work. Eventually we opened a branch in KL and Eng Chin took charge of it. As we were not getting the real benefits of partnership running those two branches we had to and split, Eng Chin joining up with G T S Sidhu to form Khoo & Sidhu in K.L., I with H W Tan as H W Tan & George in Seremban.
Eng Chin went on to become the top specialist in Malaysia in insurance law in general and in particular insurance law pertaining to motor vehicles and road accidents.
From the early 1960s, both Eng Chin and I were actively involved in the activities of the Bar Committees and of the Bar Council. Those were the days when the young Turks were getting a little tired of the old foggies running the Bar Committees and the Bar Council and we were inching our way in, to take over. So, we started the trend which has now become a way of life in Bar Politics of the impatient young nudging out the old.
Eventually Eng Chin served as Chairman of the Selangor (& KL) Bar Committee as I also did. From the early 60s, Eng Chin was year after year elected to the Bar Council always obtaining the highest number of votes, year after year beating me by a few votes. In those days, when the Bar was small and everybody knew everybody, Khoo Eng Chin was easily the most popular member of the Bar whose integrity was unquestionable, who conducted himself with unfailing courtesy and with the dignity expected of a leader of the Bar.
What the then Chairman of the Bar Council, R R Chelliah said in 1965 of one of our great advocates, S K Das can be said of Mr Khoo Eng Chin,
“He was not a showman who acted to the gallery. He never tried to bully witnesses or his opponents. He never raised his voice in Court. His advocacy was quiet and full of dignity”. |
Mr Khoo was always ready to impart his knowledge and the benefit of his wide and vast experience to those younger members of the Bar who went to him to seek advice and assistance on legal problems and for that matter on personal problems. Our late brother was the epitome of what a good lawyer should be and earned the respect, not only of the members of the Bar but also of all of the judges before whom he has appeared which he did in those days almost every other day!
Khoo Eng Chin had been a top notch sportsman. In his school days, he played soccer and badminton at which he excelled. In our student days in London, I have seen him beat the great Eddy Choong in practice matches!
I think that it was in 1954 that he took part in the London Badminton championship which attracted some of the top players of the game including Khoo Eng Chin and Eddy Choong, for the men’s singles title. Eng Chin was at the height of his prowess as a singles player and we, some of his friends and I, assessed that the only impediment to his winning the singles trophy was Eddy Choong. It fell on me to persuade Eddy to drop out of the tournament which I successfully achieved – cost me an arm and a leg, hosting dinner at the premier Chinese restaurant in London in Leicester Square. Eng Chin became the London singles champion of 1954. Eng Chin continued playing quality badminton representing the Malaysian Bar in the Bench and Bar games well into his 50s. I recollect when he was in his late forties scheduled to play 2nd or 3rd singles for Malaysia in the Bench and Bar Games at Singapore, some of us, including Eng Chin’s wife, Lilian Chooi Kut Chan, were watching him warming up for his game when we overheard a conversation carried on near us – a young Singaporean was upbraiding the Singapore Badminton Captain “I’ve spent a lot of time practising for the tournament but you have pitted me against that old man”. He obviously had no inkling that Khoo Eng Chin in his time had been among the top 20 singles world players of badminton and still a force to be reckoned with. Lillian in indignation turned to me and said “Good heavens, he is referring to Eng Chin”. She climbed over the barrier separating us from the badminton courts and went up to Eng Chin, earnestly spoke to him and returned to where we were, “I told him not to come home if he did not thrash that young man” which Eng Chin proceeded to do clinically, methodically and mercilessly. He played in the style of the great Wong Peng Soon – stroke play, returning every shot to the base line and then would come the killer drop shot. He beat him 15:5, 15:5 and no doubt was welcomed home.
Khoo Eng Chin married Lillian Chooi Kut Chan in 1959 or 1960. She used to be a school teacher. Lillian is a sister of Chooi Mun Sou of Chooi & Co. The Khoo’s two sons, Andrew and Mark are members of the Bar and are partners of Khoo & Sidhu, Eng Chin’s old firm, and are present here today. Mrs Lillian Khoo had travelled to Tasmania, with some family friends including Dato’ V P Nathan and Datin and Dato’ Kam Woon Wah and they could not get back in time for this reference. She has asked me to convey her respects to Your Ladyship and her thanks to the Bar and the Judiciary for organising this reference.
My Lady, on behalf of the Bar of Malaysia, I offer our deepest condolences to Andrew & Mark and to their dear mother, my friend Lillian Chooi Kut Chan and to all those near and dear to my old friend, Khoo Eng Chin.
In ending this eulogy, I can say, without fear of contradiction, that both Justice Dato’ Haji Abu Mansor and Khoo Eng Chin were good people who had each completed full and useful lives and have gone on, leaving good memories to all who knew them and it can be said of each of them,
“And so dies another wave on the shores of life whispering its brief story into the sands of time
And a gentle spirit has crossed the bar to land on a silent shore
Where the billows break no more nor the tempest roar”.
And a gentle spirit has crossed the bar to land on a silent shore
Where the billows break no more nor the tempest roar”.
My Lady, our individual faiths should help us believe that,
“The souls of the righteous
Are in the hands of God
There shall no evil come to them
There they are at peace”
Are in the hands of God
There shall no evil come to them
There they are at peace”
I respectfully move that a record of this reference be kept in the archives of the Court and a copy be provided to the respective families of those to whom we have in our inadequate ways paid tribute to this morning.