LEGAL AID

LEGAL AID CENTRE & LEGAL AID BUREAU

If you need a lawyer to represent you but you cannot afford to pay a lawyer's fees, you may seek help from a Legal Aid Centre runs by the Bar Council which provides representation for all criminal matters and render legal assistance for all civil matters except matters relating to recovery of debts and motor accident claims.

The Government also runs a Legal Aid Bureau to cater for people who need legal assistance but cannot afford to pay fees. The Legal Aid Bureau has offices in all major cities and towns in Malaysia which renders assistance in most legal matters for those who qualify except legal representation for criminal matters. 

"JUSTICE FOR ALL"

FAST FACT: JUSTICE BENJAMIN NATHAN CARDOZO

FAST FACT: JUSTICE BENJAMIN NATHAN CARDOZO: "'Law must be stable and yet, it cannot stand still.' The victory ...is for those who shall know how to fuse these two tendencies together in..."

JUSTICE BENJAMIN NATHAN CARDOZO

"Law must be stable and yet, it cannot stand still." The victory ...is for those who shall know how to fuse these two tendencies together in adaptation to an end as yet imperfectly discerned"

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870 – July 9, 1938)

-"The Growth of the Law - 1923"

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo was a well known American jurists and he is remembered for his landmark decisions on negligence, commercial and constitutional law. 

One of his famous sayings which I really like to share with you here is :-

"Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions" 

Wagner v International Railway  : RESCUE DOCTRINE

"Danger invites rescue. The cry of distress is the summons to relief ... The emergency begets the man. The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had."


Source : Wikipedia