The Star
IPOH: The
proposed law academy can be an alternative to the Malaysian Bar,
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz said.
Nazri, who recently proposed the setting up of the academy, said the Bar was not necessarily right at all times.
“It
is very partisan in its accusations and so, I do not think it should be
given the monopoly (to represent the legal community),” he said here
yesterday after launching the e-Judiciary project.
Nazri
was recently reported as saying that the time had come to establish a
law academy, the membership of which would include non-practising law
graduates as well as practising lawyers.
He
had said there was an urgent need to establish the academy in view of
the recent incidents during the Bersih 3.0 rally and also what
transpired during the Bar’s extraordinary general meeting last Friday.
“The proposed academy can represent a broader spectrum of law graduates, which are currently not members of the Bar.
“There
are many law graduates in the academic line, banking sector and even
former judges who do not have an association to represent them at the
moment,” Nazri said, adding that he would be consulting the Cabinet and
Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail on the matter soon.
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