ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS The use of and access to this website portal ("MBar Website")
is strictly subject to all the terms and conditions as hereinafrer appearing ("Terms and Conditions").
Your use of and access to and/or continued use of and access to the MBar Website
shall constitute your agreement to accept and comply with the Terms and Conditions.
DISCLAIMER
All information displayed on the MBar Website
is strictly intended for general information and knowledge only.
The information displayed herein is subject to changes and may no
longer be accurate after the uploading date.
While every care has been taken by the Bar Council
and its staff (hereafter the Bar Council, the Malaysian Bar and their staff collectively, the "MBC")
to ensure the accuracy of the information contained on the MBar Website,
it remains your sole responsibility and obligation to seek independent
legal advice as to the reasons for your visiting the MBar Website.
It is not the intention of MBC or the MBar Website to render any
legal advice or deal with queries respecting any matters or issues
currently pending before any courts or subject to any form of legal
proceedings whether within or without Malaysia.
Articles, reports and surveys reflect the views of the individuals that prepared them and, unless
indicated expressly in the text, do not necessarily reflect or represent the position of the MBC or any of its committees.
The MBC makes no representation or warranty, whether expressly or
by implication. Neither is MBC responsible nor liable for any loss,
damage or expense suffered or incurred by you as a result of any
act or omission by you in reliance of any of the information contained
on the MBar Website.
The MBC shall have no responsibility
or liability in relation to any loss or damage which you incur,
including damage to your software or hardware, arising from your use
of or access to the MBar Website.
The MBC is in no position to recommend or comment
on the area of practice of any lawyers or law firms notwithstanding
the names of lawyers or firms may have appeared
on the MBar Website. The MBC will not entertain at all any requests
for
recommendation
of or comment on lawyers or law firms.
WARRANTIES AND INDEMNITY
By using the MBar Website, you have unconditionally warranted and undertaken to the MBC that you will not use the MBar Website or any of its contents for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by the Terms and Conditions. If you violate any of the Terms and Conditions, your permission to use and access the MBar Website automatically terminates in which case you shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless MBC from any and all claims, demands, losses, damages, costs and liabilities, including reasonable solicitors' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your acts or omissions, including claims arising out of your use of the MBar Website and your submission, posting or transmission of the contents herein or your violation of the Terms and Conditions.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
The contents of the MBar Website are protected by copyright and
other applicable proprietary and intellectual property laws, and
they shall remain the sole property of the Malaysian Bar and any
third party. You must not reproduce or attempt to reproduce by
any means whatsoever anything from the MBar Webite, whether wholly
or partly, without the prior express consent of the MBC.
Subject to the above, you may,
however, download and view the material or print a copy of material on
the MBar Website for personal or non-commercial use provided you do
not modify the copy from how it appears on this site (including any
copyright notice). All rights not expressly granted under these Terms
and Conditions are reserved.
The MBar Website may include third
party content and this is subject to that third party's terms of use
and it is your duty to comply with the same.
RIGHT NOT TO REPLY RESERVED
You are also to note that unless you state accurately your name,
NRIC No., residential address, office address (if any), contact number
and, where applicable, name of organisation and organisation's address
and telephone number in your emails, we may not reply to you subject
to our reservation of not responding at all to any emails without
having to assign any reason whatsoever.
LINKS TO MBAR WEBSITE
While you may place a link to our main page and not to any other web pages on your website provided
your site does not promote profanity, pornography or unlawful purposes
and is not involved in any illegality, we do not, however, permit any
deep-link to our web pages.
THIRD PARTY'S LINKS AND
ADVERTISEMENTS ON MBAR WEBSITE
If you wish us to have a link to your
website on the MBar Website, you must first seek our prior express
consent subject to our rights to charge, if necessary, a fee for
such purpose.
The MBar Website may contain links to third parties’ websites or advertisements from third parties to which the MBC
and the MBar Website have no control or interest.
However, this is not to be construed in any wise whatsoever as
MBC endorsing such websites or advertisements or any of their contents. Neither does it indicate a
relationship between MBC and that third party or any products or services
which that third party is advertising on the MBar Website or that party's website.
In addition, it is hereby declared that the appearance of any third party's
links or advertisements on the MBar Website does not indicate or imply
whatsoever that the MBC and the MBar Website represent or warrant that that
third party's website and the products and services it is advertising on the
MBar Website have complied with the relevant laws governing its business or
the contents of its website.
The MBC hereby repeats
all the above disclaimers mutatis mutandis to your using
such links to access or visit such third parties’ websites.
MEMBERS' SECTION
The members' section is restricted to those who have been granted access with
a pre-approved username or password. However, such access may be revoked at
any time at MBC's sole discretion without being obligated to assign any reason
whatsoever for the decision. An authorised user to this restricted section of
the MBar Website shall be deemed to have agreed to the following when
accessing the restricted section:
• not to divulge the assigned username or password to any third party.
• not to permit or encourage any unauthorised user to access the
restricted section by using the username and password assigned to him.
• to change his original password immediately upon suspecting that
the secrecy of his username and/or password may have been compromised in any
wise whatsoever.
LEGAL DIRECTORY
By undertaking a search on the Malaysian Bar members' database through the Legal
Directory section, you have also agreed not to use and/or disseminate any
information requested and/or received by you for any commercial purpose or for
the purpose of creating a data storage base or for any other purpose except
for the sole purpose of locating a particular advocate and solicitor or a
legal firm.
GOVERNING LAW
The governing law for the Terms and Conditions is the law of Malaysia irrespective of
your current location or jurisdiction when accessing the MBar Website.
The Terms and Conditions also apply irrespective of which of the domain
addresses you have accessed the MBar Website whether it is
www.malaysianbar.org.my or
www.malaysianbar.my or
www.malaysianbar.net.my or
www.malaysianbar.com.my or
www.malaysianbar.org or
www.malaysianbar.net or
www.malaysianbar.com.
VARIATION OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
This Agreement comprises the entire agreement between MBC and you, and supersedes all prior agreements or understandings with respect to the subject matter herein. The Terms and Conditions are subject to changes from time to time which shall take effect immediately upon the posting of the modified terms and conditions and thereafter references herein to "Terms and Conditions" shall include such modified terms and conditions. You agree to check this page every time you visit the MBar Website for any update. If any of the modified terms and conditions is unacceptable to you, you must discontinue accessing the MBar Website. Your use of and access to and/or continued use of and access to the MBar Website following the posting of such modified terms and conditions shall be deemed that you have accepted all such changes without any reservation.
Please contact the
MBC if you have any queries concerning the MBar
Website or the above. Please also report any violations of the Terms and Conditions to webadministrator@malaysianbar.org.my | 
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