The Profession
The next generation, in court dress.
Advocacy is taught by being watched, argued against, and marked.
He gives time to national-level mooting at the Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, International Islamic University Malaysia — the competitions where law students first argue in front of someone who has done it for real.
He has served as one of the judges for the Inter-Law School Competition, sitting on the bench to hear students argue and to mark them on the craft as it is actually practised. It is a role he takes seriously: the standards a young advocate meets in a moot are the same ones the courts will hold them to later, and there is no better time to learn them.
Legal Education
On the platform, and in the hall.
In 2024, he appeared in academic robes as guest of honour, in his capacity as a Notary Public and Commissioner for Oaths, at the Majlis Apresiasi Tingkatan Enam at Maktab Sultan Abu Bakar, and keeps up the collegiate side of the profession that most practitioners quietly drop after call.
Public Affairs
At the lectern in Parliament.
Criminal and constitutional questions do not stay inside the courtroom, and a lawyer who argues them is sometimes asked to explain them in public.
Moments like this — at the media-conference lectern in Parliament — are part of the wider work: a reflection of the dedication, engagement, and hard work that the practice brings to matters of public interest, well beyond the day-to-day of the courtroom.
International
Engagement in the Gulf
The Dubai office did not appear out of nowhere. It grew out of years of meeting counterparts, hosts and institutions across the region.
The Habit of Study
Reading, as breathing.
The work does not stop when the hearing ends. It carries on in the reading.
A well-thumbed brief, annotated in half a dozen colours and tabbed until it will barely close, is the honest picture of how the practice runs: nothing taken for granted, every point checked back to its source. Preparation of this kind is not glamorous, but it is what a client is really paying for.
He keeps up the reading wherever he is — here over coffee at Gray's Inn in London — taking a recap of past matters and staying current with the law as it moves. It is a discipline, and after more than two decades in practice it has become second nature.
Collegiate Life
Among colleagues.
As guest of honour at the Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, International Islamic University Malaysia — among colleagues in court dress, and part of the ordinary, unglamorous sociability of a profession that runs on people knowing each other.
Speaking, teaching, or judging?
For invitations to speak, adjudicate or contribute, write to the Kuala Lumpur office.