Life…
Thursday, August 24th, 2006…and it’s splendors.
It’s now 1am and i’m still thinking.
Left pondering aboout a question that I am not able to solve. Then I
remembered what a wise man said to me; he said that to live in this
life you have to be thinking of things that is to be thought about and
dismissed those that are foolish thoughts.
But what we deem as
foolish may be something to be thought about to another person. So
again, berbekal dengan ilmu yang sungguh limited, I am what i turned
out to be…. a fool in her thoughts.
Anyways… I will share
with you something I read in this wee hours of the morning. Something
that has to do with my proffession… yes Laila, this is the thing I
was telling you about. Click here for full story.
Here’s the bits and pieces of it.. from the Malaysian Bar website.
it
says.. and I quote as to what was passed in motion in Parliament but
not yet gazzeted and was discussed in the Extraordinary General Meeting
(EGM).
the halting of these motions :
"…amended sections 76(2) and (3), which state that secrecy can be
maintained by the members of the examining board, the Bar Council, the
disciplinary board and committee and its staff." (exemption from disclosing matters in court)
"…amendment relates to section 103E(2) which states that “there shall be
no judicial review against any decision or order made by the
disciplinary board.." (meaning no appeal procedures)
"Other contested amendments include the curtailment of lawyers’ right to
be heard; breach of lawyers’ right against self-incrimination; and wide
powers given to the board to make restitution orders against lawyers."
Sigh..
I wasn’t there when they had the EGM as I didn’t know of it. Had I
known, I would’ve gone too. It’s so difficult to be the one at home and
unable to make any changes in the society.
Many would console me and say my time will come to make my own
effect… but it’s not as simple to make it out there as you all think.
The things you people think (which is most of the time false is…)
1. Lawyers make LOTS of money.
Misconception.
The chambies (fresh graduates) suffer a deal of 9 months training at a
very low income at some firms. When DO WE make money, when we are
actually the partner of the firm. Tunggulah ada "Sarah &
Associates" then we talk my BIG MONEY.
2. We have the power to make change in law matters.
As
much as I would LOVE to agree on that, we don’t really have the power.
Unless we are in numbers. Just llike the EGM on those motions mentioned
above. God knows when Parliament is gonna pass a bill that’s gonna
effect the profession’s independance (assuming we have any).
3. Lawyers are not accountable for their actions in court.
Not
really true either. See the above matter on EGM. That proves that
lawyers go through disciplinary hearings too. We could be fined,
sentenced to prison or even disbarred… for even a traffic ticket.
Serious.. I am not joking!
4. Lawyers love to defend the bad guys free.
We
DO NOT.. again repeat.. DO NOT choose our defendants. There’s ethics
issue to be discussed here… but that’ll take a long lecture. Innocent
til proven guilty. Even though the evidence is against our client, we
must do our best to defend if the client said he didn’t do it. If he
says he did it to us, we have a confidentiality thing to adhere to.
But, we DO NOT agrivate the situation of making him look innocent…
it’s the prosecution that failed to produce the evidence.
5. Lawyers defend things that are wrong, so they are that too.
Alleged
rapist, alleged drug addict, alleged murderer… lawyers that defend
them are NOT a rapist or drug addict or murderer. He/she doesn’t even
come close to being those things.. contrary to believes.
~~~***~~~
My
bloggings tonite were mainly focused on life. This is my life. My
profession that I am soon to embark and embrace. God willing my health
and my radicalness will not make me be wilther in the early lifetime of
my profession.
You think my life is simple and all love story
drama… no… it’s more complicated than that. I only write about my
love life complication in this blog i call home because I wouldn’t want
my readers to find me irritated with everything else in my life. My
love life was the only thing I wanna blog about to distract my
constantly working mind from thinking about my very uncertain future.
I’m
graduate… yet to be a lawyer. So think about my plate. It’s too full
to chew. Ini baru pasal my profession..not my everyday drama tau.
Oh
my… it’s 2:30am and I have to be up by 6am to get ready to shoot out
by 7am to go for the ever tiring rehearsal. Damn those steps. I’m so
scared… literally shaking thinking bout it. But I try not to show it.
"They think they know… but they can never tell. The secret behind this smile…"