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KUALA LUMPUR, Tues: The 14th Malaysian Law Conference which will be held from 29-31 October will have a session on "Property Rights" where three distinguished speakers will respectively speak on indefeasibility of title under the National Land Code; the 2000 case of Adorna Properties Sdn Bhd v Boonsom Boonyanit, and whether finger prints should be introduced in property transactions.

The first subject will be taken by Professor Teo Keang Sood from the National University of Singapore. The writer of the oft-referred article, "Demise of Deferred Indefeasibility under the Malaysian Torrens System?", Professor Teo was the Deputy Director and Vice-Dean of the Graduate Division of NUS Law Faculty. He teaches contract and property law and is an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya.

Educated at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur (where he also served as Vice-Dean of the law school) and Harvard Law School, his principal areas of research lie in land law, strata title and tax.

He has written extensively in, and presented papers locally, regionally and in Australia and South Africa on, these areas. Possessing an impressive publication list, he has also edited several publications, and several of his works have been cited with approval by the Court of Appeal and High Court of Singapore and the Federal Court, Court of Appeal and High Court of Malaysia.

He has also been appointed as external examiner and internal examiner for universities in Australia, Malaysia and NUS for their doctoral candidates in the areas of property law, contract law and taxation. He was named an Excellent Teacher by NUS in 2002-2003. Currently, he is the Editor of the Singapore Academy of Law's Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2000-2006 and a member of the Strata Titles Board.

Retired senior Penang lawyer, Lim Kean Chye, who is also described as the doyen of Penang lawyers, will then dissect the Boonyanit case which he appeared as lead counsel for the late Mrs Boonyanit before the Federal Court in 2000 which was presided over by Chief Justice Tun Eusoff Chin.

88-years-old now but still as sharp as a pin, Kean Chye was a politician-turned lawyer. Once detained in Singapore by the British for 3 months in 1958, Kean Chye also founded the Malayan Democratic Party for the English speaking in Singapore in 1945.

When asked in an interview in 2005 why he hung up his robe, Lim said: "In the year 2000 I did not like the way the Judge shouted at two young lawyers who he faulted for not having prepared the bundle of authorities the way he liked. Hooliganism had intruded and that was not the arena for me. And what galled me was that for most of the years I practised no such bundle was ever done. So I quit."

Kean Chye, who went through World War II in London and the Japanese Occupation of Malaya, is also the brother to two other doyens of the Malaysian Bar, Lim Kean Siew and Datuk P.G. Lim.

In the same session, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Tan Kok Liang who was also the head of the Finger Prints Department will speak on whether finger prints should be introduced in property transactions.

Now attached to the Commercial Crimes Department at Bukit Aman, ACP Tan will discuss the history and uniqueness of finger prints and give the participants some tips on how to ascertain the authenticity of finger prints.

The session will then probably end with a speaker from the Real Estate and Housing Developers Association giving a layman's perspective of a citizen's property rights in Malaysia.

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