ANTIDOTE Sarawak’s maverick land rights lawyers, state PKR chief Baru Bian and his vice-chairperson See Chee How, have proposed a new model of land development for long-suffering native customary rights (NCR) landowners.

The NCR defence team, assisted by younger lawyers such as Simon Siah, Desmond Kho and Chua Kuan Ching, have won an increasing number of court cases filed by disenfranchised indigenous communities.