This could open the floodgates and make top lawyers go out of business.

If you are a defendant in a court case with all probabilities pointing to you being convicted, instead of hiring people like Karpal Singh and Sugumar Balakrishnan as your defense counsel, go for totally incompetent lawyers instead.

Well, that seems to be the message being sent out by a landmark ruling by the Malaysian Federal Court today, which consisted of a 3-man panel led by the Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Tan Sri Richard Malanjum, with the 2 others being Justices Datuk Hashim Yusoff and Datuk Gopal Sri Ram.

The lawyer must be so bad that it was “flagrant in the circumstances of the case, and had deprived the accused of a fair trial, thus occassioning a miscarriage of justice, and must also have regard to the conduct of a counsel as a whole, and not merely to his or her failure in one or two departments.”

So, as you can see, hiring bad lawyers could, instead of landing you in jail, enable you to send photo holiday cards instead!

Source
Bernama, 15th Sep 2009

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