Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
Shaking it up with a switch in solicitors - R Nadeswaran
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Malaysiakini : Whatever the consequences, the right of an accused person to be represented is enshrined in our law books.
The
constitutional protection of the right to be represented by legal
counsel is provided under Article 5 (3) (3) of the Federal Constitution
which reads: “Where a person is arrested, he shall be informed as soon
as may be of the grounds of his arrest and shall be allowed to consult
and be defended by a legal practitioner of his choice.”
Section
255 of the Criminal Procedure Code states that “every person accused
before any criminal court may of right be defended by an advocate.”
There
have been many instances where accused persons have discharged their
counsel for various reasons. There have also been instances when lawyers
have discharged themselves from representing their clients.
The
recent application to the court of Valen, Oh & Partners discharging
themselves is a case in point. The firm had acted for fugitive financier
Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, and his father Low Hock Peng, in
the 1MDB suit against them.
The firm said its appointment has
been terminated by Kobre & Kim LLP as the instructing solicitors on
the matter. So, the change of solicitors or counsel is nothing new.
New lawyers for Najib
Yesterday, former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak discharged
his lawyers who had represented him in the High Court and the Court of
Appeal in the SRC case. In their place, he appointed a new team to hear
his appeal at the Federal Court.
Najib Abdul Razak with lawyers Muhammad Shafee Abdullah (right) and Farhan Shafee
For
purposes of clarity, Najib discharged the firm of Shafee & Co and
not Muhammed Shafee Abdullah as counsel in his appeal to the Federal
Court.
Similarly, Najib appointed the firm of Zaid Ibrahim Suflan TH Liew & Partners and not Zaid the individual per se.
But
that application to change solicitors got tongues wagging with all
kinds of allusions and insinuations when news filtered in on Tuesday
morning. It reached a crescendo in the afternoon.
This was after various news portals reported that the new firm of solicitors had applied to the apex court to adjourn the scheduled 10-day hearing next month.
According
to a letter from Zaid Ibrahim Suflan TH Liew & Partners to the
Federal Court dated July 26, the legal team said this is because they
were just appointed to represent Najib in the appeal.
The letter,
signed by the firm’s senior partner Liew Teck Huat, states that Najib
instructed them to seek adjournment of the SRC appeal hearing scheduled
from Aug 15 to 26.
Is the Federal Court obliged to grant the application? Or can it order the proceedings to proceed as scheduled?
Rule
6 of the Bar Council’s Legal Profession (Practice and Etiquette) Rules
1978 states: (a) An advocate and solicitor shall not accept any brief
unless he is reasonably certain of being able to appear and represent
the client on the required day.
The Federal Court can be expected to take cognisance of these rubrics before it makes a ruling.
