ETHICS #12 | What are the requirements to admit a lawyer under S18 Legal Profession Act ?
How can a foreign lawyer be admitted under S18 Legal Profession Act ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
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How can a foreign lawyer be admitted under S18 Legal Profession Act ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
Can the judge transfer the case to High Court without consent of the Public Prosecutor in capital punishment cases ? Do the principles for transfer under S41A Dangerous Drug Act applies equally to S177A Criminal Procedure Code ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
Can a defendant ask for assessment of damages when the injunction obtained against him was set aside ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
In an application to challenge the decision of public authority, should O53 be the only mandatory procedure for an aggrieved party to challenge the decision of a public body ? Can he proceed by way of writ or originating summons ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
How do we determine if a loss is too remote or within contemplation ? What is the rule of Hadley Baxendale ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
Is bail and bond the same thing ? We tend to use them interchangeably but technically speaking they are different For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
In a criminal proceeding, when does the judiciary comes into the picture ? Where is the dividing line whereby Public Prosecutor has completed his part and thereby judiciary is being invited into the case ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
What is the procedure for tendering evidence of alibi ? What amounts to defence of alibi ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
How do you discredit the evidence given by hostile witness ? Must you impeach a hostile witness ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
There has been a new amendment with regard to how children give witness recently (March 2025). So what has changed ? Must evidence of children be corroborated ? Are children competent witness ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
Who is an interested witness ? Should the evidence of interested witness be corroborated ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
Who is an accomplice ? Should his / her evidence be corroborated ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
Have you read before the Federal Court case of CIMB Bank v Sivadevi ? How is it related to the Federal Court case of Thameez Nisha v Maybank ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
The case of Pannir Selvam discussed on quite a few issues that are related to your CLP syllabus, including S340 National Land Code, similar fact evidence, parole evidence rule etc. Let's discuss this case in this episode For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
A document produced by computer may be admitted pursuant to a S90A certificate. When will S90A(6) comes into the picture then ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
Assuming that prosecution tender a piece of hearsay evidence with no objection from the accused, will this piece of inadmissible hearsay evidence become admissible now ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
What is ID evidence ? Is ID evidence admissible in court ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
The Public Prosecutor has absolute power and discretion to institute, conduct and discontinue a proceeding in court. Is this discretion given under Art 145(3) Federal Constitution subject to judicial review ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
In 2019, Lokman Adam made a police report and on the same day held a live press conference with respect to the evidence given by a witness in the 1MDB trial. Lokman Adam was then charged for contempt of court. What is contempt of court ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
S51A is a newly inserted section to codified the responsibility of prosecution to submit a list of of documents to the accused before the commencement of the trial. Is S51A mandatory ? Must prosecution provides every single document that he has to the accused under S51A ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
Siti Aisyah is the well known case on murder of Kim Jong Nam. In this Court of Appeal case, one main issue being deliberated is whether S112 CPC police statement is privilege document and whether those accused may apply to have those statement pursuant to S51 CPC ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
Can a defendant be added against the wishes of the plaintiff ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
Can the Session Court try a counterclaim which exceeds its RM 1million value limit jurisdiction ? Can the Session Court award a claim in excess of Rm 1million in a counterclaim ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
When caveator has wrongfully entered a caveat on the land, is it mandatory for the caveator to pay compensation to the caveatee ? Does the caveatee has to prove anything ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
When you are confronted with a problem, do you complain first or do you solve it head on ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
A witness may not be able to remember the statement he has given to the investigation officer if it was given long time ago. Can he refresh his memory by looking at the statement during the trial ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
How true is the statement in the case of Wong Swee Chin that failure of the defence to cross-examine the prosecution witnesses on the matter merely goes to the credibility of their testimony For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
Is it the court or is it the executive that decides that a document relates to affairs of State or not ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
How does the maxim "once privileged, always privileged" relates to S126 Evidence Act ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com
Doing something repeatedly the same way and hoping to have a different kind of result is pure insanity. Is there anything else we can do differently ? Do we have options ? For more information on the courses I offered, please visit www.clpexam.com