Another Brick in the Wall: Unsworn statement from the dock is no evidence

Another Brick in the Wall: Unsworn statement from the dock is no evidence

HAROLD LLOYD -THE LEGEND COMEDIAN

JOKES : WHEN YOU ARE ABOUT TO LOSE YOUR CASE – SEEK RECOURSE TO YOUR COMMON SENSE

Forget not the first rule when you meet your counterpart – exchange your call card, it determines the roadmap of your case.

In a running down case, you act as defendant’s counsel. Case went on a full trial, few witnesses were called after being short listed in a case management proceedings. At the end of the case, parties were asked to submit. Being a counsel for a long time and knowing the judge characters as fierce as roaring lion in the cage, you found that your client was about to lose the case.

One of the cardinal rule when doing the court’s case is to know the judge fully inside out. You must know his characters especially on things he likes and dislikes. Having said that, you also knew that the judge is a chain smoker. You remembered one judge complaining about this judge that his chamber were smokey due to the fact that his chamber locating next to this chain smoker judge. Smoke got in the air con ventilator and reentered his chamber. He also complained that his hair smell spice tobacco.

In your case, you also know that judge will never tolerate hanky panky exercises in court, he is a man of the book. I mean the law books. You knew that you are going to lose your case and that suddenly snapped your not so common sense thinking to figure out something workable. Remember the earlier statement? exchange your call card, it determines the roadmap of your case.

Now, you knew the judge well and you are about to lose your case. A good lawyer will not say that he will think about it but must always be in a position to say  “ I have thought about it”

You then quickly go to the nearby shop to buy a cartoon of Gudang Garam Surya and ask for a gift wrap service as well. On top of the wrapper, you attached a business card that belonged to the plaintiff lawyer. You have asked somebody to hand it over to the judge secretary. The secretary then passed it to the judge. The judge was very happy to get a cartoon of his favorite cigarette. He quickly opened the wrap and was then so upset when looking at the call card that belonged to the plaintiff lawyer stick nicely on the wrap. Realizing that the gift was from the plaintiff lawyer, he smashed the whole cigarette into the dust bin. The plaintiff lawyer has invited his wrath.

The next day when the judge rise to deliver his judgment in the open court, he stared fiercely to the young lady acting as the plaintiff lawyer without saying a word. He then gave his decision in favor of the defendant by saying “ upon my findings of facts which overweight the findings of laws , I hereby dismissed the plaintiff claims and allow the defendant counterclaims”

Bravo !! you won the case on human factors and weaknesses. Common sense does count.

SALAM LEBARAN 2014 - SELAMAT HARIRAYA, MAAF ZAHIR DAN BATIN

Kepada semua ex student dan kenalan,








Saya menyusun sepuluh jari mohon kemaafan di atas segala salah dan silap sepanjang perkenalan kita samada dalam kuliyah perundangan/ bengkel/seminar dan sebagainya. Muga tahun tahun yang mendatang akan lebih memperkasakan keimanan kita.






Janji Allah tetap benar, imbau kembali sejarah peperangan Badar, peperangan Ahzab, kehebatan tentera Salahuddin Al Ayubi yang berpuasa sepanjang berperang. Hari gembira untuk umat manusia............dunia ke arah keamanan dan kedamaian sejagat sepanjang 700 tahun mendatang sebelum kiamat. Tiada apa yang perlu ditakutkan..tiada apa yang perlu dibimbangkan.......marilah kita bersama sama bergembira,bersemangat menunggu masa dan saat itu.






MAS telah berada dalam "hot radar" Allah swt sejak akhir akhir ini. Siapakah yang bersalah??? Israel? Amerika ?? Ukraine atau Rusia??. Ada pula yang mengaitkannya dengan paspot Malaysia...Bagi mereka yang belum kenal siapa itu Allah dan sifat sifatnya.....akan tertutup pintu hatinya yang telah dipenuhi dengan jutaan bintik bintik hitam..maka mereka ini tidak nampak akan kekuasaan Allah di sebalik semua kejadian ini. Bukan Israil yang hilangkan MH370, bukan Amerika yang menyebabkan MH17 terhempas..semuanya berlaku dengan izin dan kehendak Allah juga. Kita sedang diuji tahap dan maqam keimanan kita.






Ada sesuatu yang Allah hendak sampaikan kepada DS Najib dan pimpinan tertinggi MAS. Muhasabahlah diri dan perbetulkan mana yang silap. Allah menegur kerana Ia sangat sayangkan Malaysia....yakinlah dengan penuh keimanan. terlalu banyak hikmahnya kejadian ini. Lapangkan dada, buka minda...dan belajarlah......"Learn a lesson......O ye who has vision to see"




Hariraya..hari untuk kita bergembira....hari untuk kita merayakan kebesaran Allah swt. Buangkan segala sifat mazmumah dan suburkan hati kita dengan sifat mahmudah...........sidiq amanah tabliq fatonah, adab tertib sopan santun marwah dan ikhlas.

GOOD & BAD MITIGATION IN THE TRAFFIC COURT

When you pleaded guilty before the Magistrate, you would be given a chance to say 
something "appealing" to persuade the Magistrate to give a lighter fine.


BAD MITIGATION


Never ever giving the following reasons in mitigation

i. I am sole breadwinner
ii. I have a wife and kids to maintain
iii. I have an old parent to look after
iv. I am an odd jobs worker and has no steady income
v. or the likes

Reasons : The Judge would normally turn the whole things back to you and might simply say " you would not committed this offence if you have the heart of considering all these troubles that your family might suffer, it was you that never bother and symphatizing your family by committing this offence. And now you have the face of asking this honourable court to syphatize them, shame on you !

Instead, consider the following....

GOOD MITIGATION

i. This is my first offence, I repented and promise this honourable court that I will be more careful  
    next time
ii. i was in a rush to respond to the nature's call nearby, felt very sorry but I was left without a choice
iii. I was in the state of emergency sending the ill victim to nearby clinic
iv. I was chasing the snatch thief
v. In front me was a big tanker lorry, I could not see the traffic lights, I move as the lorry moves
vi. I could not see the traffic lights clearly because it was hidden by the tree branches

If the offence took place late midnight, try the following:

Your Honor, it was late at nite, no cars and other traffics around. It was between me alone and the traffic lights. In such circumstances, I will have to seek redress of my own judgments. At that time, I found that no cars coming from all angles and it was safe for me to move on despite the red lights. Your Honor, the lights are just mere prefix machines, it has no eyes and has no brain too. It blinks when the time comes. But i am a reasonable human being capable of weighing the circumstances at that nite. I leave it to your lordships whether to trust me or to trust that bloody prefix machines which has no brain and eyes.

Your Honour, may I have the privilege of a Cautioned and Discharged order

Pesawat Mendarat Setelah 35 Tahun Menghilang

PENTINGNYA KEMAHIRAN MEDIASI KEPADA PEGAWAI PENGUATKUASA

Keadaan telah banyak berubah bila Kanun Tatacara Jenayah melalui proses pindaan yang cukup drastik dalam pengendalian kes kes jenayah di Malaysia semenjak tahun 2010. Kalau sebelum ini, kebanyakan proses penyelesaian kes dibuat secara tidak rasmi dan di peringkat jabatan sahaja tetapi berikutan dengan pindaan KTJ,ianya melibatkan mahkamah secara rasminya. Pindaan pindaan kepada KTJ menyaksikan perkenalan perkara perkara baru dalam pengendalian kes kes jenayah. Antaranya ialah konferen pra bicara (pretrial conference), pengurusan kes(case management), tawar menawar pengakuan (plea bargaining) dan lain lainnya. Kesemuanya ini memerlukan suatu kemahiran baru kepada pegawai penyiasat dan pegawai pendakwa dan kemahiran yang dimaksudkan itu ialah kemahiran mediasi iaitu suatu kemahiran yang bukan sahaja merangkumi kemahiran rundingan tetapi juga kemahiran menganalisa keperluan dan bukannya kehendak ( what you want may not necessary what you need) dan memahami keperluan pihak lawan secara objektif.

Sehubungan itu, terdapat satu kursus selama 2 hari yang akan diadakan di Universiti Malaya pada 5 dan 6 Jun 2014( Khamis dan Jumaat ). Ianya dikendalikan oleh pakar mediasi tempatan Cik Gunavathy Subramaniam dan saudara David Newton, seorang mediator antarabangsa dengan usaha sama Fakulti Undang Undang Universiti Malaya.

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