Do you know that the firms you listed actively market themselves to local uni students? Try going to those career fairs. If ur grates are good and you are impressive during the interview it doesn't matter whether you are a local grad or a foreign grad.

Anyway, u are under the wrong impression if you think that being a partner in a big firm is the be all and end all of everything. There are tons of very good medium and small firms out there. It isn't so much where u work but WHO you work for. Plus some of these medium and small firms pay their legal assistants and partners much better than the big firms.

Hi everyone. My name is Jeremy, a foundation in law student in MMU. Juz wanna join u all and understand more in this field. =)

btw, my english is not that good coz im chinese educated, hope u all dont mind. =)

thanks for such a informative post

Merry Christmas everyone !!

Merry christmas to all of you!

actually i really am curious whether
there are any difference between Malaysian legal system
with English legal system?

Especially pertaining to JUDGES.

if i'm not mistaken, the malaysian judges are playing a passive role and uk judges are playing active role.

passive role means, the function of judge is to conduct the trial, to observe the relevancy of evidences and its discovery. He is merely an adjudicator on the dispute.

then, active role is much of the burden of extracting the relevant facts and controlling the conduct of the parties fall upon the career of the judge who is specifically trained for that purpose.


and,

the judges in uk are appointed from high rank of barristers,
and the judges in malaysia are promoted from magistrate.


feel free to correct me, coz i not confirm whether is it true or not.

thanks for that. i actually do not know whether it is true or not,
i really want to know their difference. :--) thanks anyway, jeremy.

u r welcome.


btw, google dont have answer??

no so far. i have searched everywhere from google, bing to yahoo but still didnt manage to find any.

I think, with regards to the role of judges in both of the countries are quite similar in which they both adopting adversarial system. Whereby the barristers/advocates and solicitors bear the burden to present the case and argue according based on their thought that is in the best interest of the party.


I came across in my reading in which it is stated that: A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. ~ H. L. Mencken

Humble view here, i would say Judges are nonetheless not one that even produced his examination papers but merely reiterate what is best justice by earing on each side of arguments presented by the barristers. Hence why, when there is no examination papers at the initial point, a judge cant be marking his own examination papers.

Unless by reiterating the arguments and added his two cents based on the fact is to be regarded as an 'examination papers'.

Hence, Judges didnt really take an active role in this sense.

Agreed that we practice an adversarial system. We still argue and present our facts in court just like who it is in the UK. The judges are therefore playing an active role.

Hi im new to this forum

does anyone know anything about Hong Kong Bar ?

do we get exemption from CLP after completing HongKong Bar ?

Perhaps a glance on this site will give you a picture.

http://www.hkba.org/admission-pupillage/general/index.html

yes i have looked at it after u've mentioned. thanks

i dont think there is a problem i wanna do their PCLL(HK bar) and get admitted into their bar.

do i still have to take CLP of malaysia to practice in m'sia ?? or do I get an exemption hehe thx

I heard its not easy to pursue their PCLL though.
I think, you'll still be required to sit for CLP and for this, you may need to consult Legal Profession Qualifying Board.

Always fall back to section 3 on the definition of a qualified person under the legal profession act.

your only possibility is under section 3(iii) and that is subject to the qualification being gazetted by the Qualifying Board in exercising their statutory powers.

Hi all sifus,

just wanna to ask that like my case i possess ICSA and Degree in Business, if i intend to further pursue LLB..should i required to take up A Level as well in order to meet the requirement of CLP?

can i bypass taking up A Level and direct pursue LLB and CLP??

how much roughly in RM for taking up whole full legal studies in order to be qualified?

also, how long roughly in years for this process to be qualified?

so sorry for all to repeat / answer my question again if there was repeated / answered earlier.

really appreciate your all helps and advices. thanks so much in advance

1) do you have any pre-u qualifications that may be considered A level/stpm equivalents?

2) you can "bypass" A level to take LLB, but you will need an ALE/STPM equivalent to take CLP

3) if UOL Ext LLB and CLP is your preferred route, about RM50k...but you will still have to undergo pupillage to be "qualified" as an A&S

4) roughly 3 years for LLB, 1 year for CLP then 9 mths for pupillage to be an Advocate & Solicitor

A person without background in business can get into MBA

1) is there any thing call Master of Law?

2) A person without background in law, can he do any such programme?

I read it somewhere, but im not so sure.

Thanks.

This post has been edited by hidden830726: Jan 17 2011, 08:43 PM

any london external programme law graduates here?i would like to know is there any difference between llb london external programme graduates and the foreign uni one?and will the holder of llb external programme be at the unfavourable position when applying for jobs?thanks in advance^^