The Malaysian Bar will open legal aid booths at all courts in Peninsular Malaysia on the first Wednesday of each month,says its president Karen Cheah.
The programme was launched by Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat in conjunction with the Bar’s Legal Aid Day celebration at the Kuala Lumpur court complex on Monday (March 11).
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The programme was launched by Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat in conjunction with the Bar’s Legal Aid Day celebration at the Kuala Lumpur court complex on Monday (March 11).
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00:06 Today's event is about Hari Bantuan Guaman Majlis Peguam.
00:12 This is our new initiative where we want to put a booth at all the courts
00:18 all across Peninsular Malaysia with the hope that the public,
00:23 when they come to courts, they will see the booth and they'll see that they are
00:26 able to actually get legal advice and legal representation.
00:30 This is a public place, so members of the public come in and
00:34 out of the court all the time.
00:36 And I think this is the best place for the booth to be at.
00:40 We obviously we will have road shows as well at all the states.
00:44 At every state we will have a booth.
00:47 And every first Wednesday of the month,
00:51 we will actually have this Hari Bantuan Guaman.
00:54 But you can see even from Kuala Lumpur courts, the booths are open every day.
01:00 So it may not necessarily be just confined to only that one day in a month.
01:06 We will go from state to state, we keep promoting it.
01:11 And we hope that, and apart from the booth,
01:15 even our bar premises, we also have a legal aid center there.
01:21 So if they can't find anyone at legal aid center, if they have a case in court,
01:26 they can just come to court and go up to any of the booths and seek that advice.
01:30 We are probably the only bar organization in the whole world where our own members
01:35 contribute on a yearly basis, 100 ringgit.
01:39 And we use these funds in order to distribute to all the legal aid centers
01:44 in Peninsular Malaysia.
01:46 And those funds will be used for all the disbursements.
01:50 So your filing fees, your traveling, all those things that the lawyer has to
01:54 actually incur when they're doing the cases for the clients,
01:57 those will be taken from those subscription.
02:00 We have been able to manage all the expenses for
02:07 maybe the last 30 years at 100 ringgit per annum without seeking an increase.
02:14 And putting too much of a burden on our members.
02:17 But our members are very, very cooperative.
02:20 We do this on a pro bono basis.
02:23 This is our way of actually giving back to the society.
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