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Debate will plunge profession into disrepute

YOURSAY ‘It is good that Leong has declined the debate.’

 

Bar Council: Unethical for Shafee to debate us

          

Anonymous_1391693662: Bar Council chairperson Christopher Leong, you have done a good job here. You have given clear guidelines on prosecutors’ ethics and behaviour.

 

If this doesn't put shame on ministers, the attorney-general, and senior lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, then it’s a very sad state for Malaysia and Malaysians. 

 

The judges involved should have put a stop on the roadshow.

 

Odin: It is good that Leong has declined the debate. It is the appropriate thing for him to do. Had he agreed, he would have dignified a party drenched in putrescence, dripping foulness, and perfectly at home in the gutters and sewers.

 

Wg321: The best persons to debate on the matter are Rafizi Ramli of PKR and that gun-blazing cowboy Khairy Jamaluddin of Umno because both of them are politicians.

 

I hope Communication and Multimedia Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek don't chicken out.

 

The Malaysian: Shabery Cheek, if only this matter were not of such a grave concern, I might have brushed off your suggestion for such a debate as you trying to be "cheeky".

 

Alas, in years to come, we must thank one of the few thinking men left in Malaysia, like Bar president Leong for upholding the few shreds of dignity that's left of our Malaysian judiciary.

 

Lionking: Leong, you are using very difficult words for the BN to understand, words which do not exist in their vocabulary.

 

Words like fair, equitable, professionalism, honesty, consistent, equally applied pro-rule of law, dignity, rights, fairness and many such positive qualities sounds very foreign to many of them.

 

Citizen with Conscience: It’s is plain and obvious the Shafee has violated the basic principles of professional dignity and ethics. He has in fact brought the profession into total disrepute.

 

Please commence immediate disciplinary hearing against Shafee. The disciplinary board comprises an extremely respected group of people and let the legal experts teach this man a lesson.

 

It is best Shafee be dismissed as a practitioner and his practicing licence be revoked permanently. It’s a shame and a disgrace to have such undignified characters in a professional body.

 

Fair Play: The truth is that Shafee has totally lost his professional credibility when he highlighted details revealed in camera in his roadshow.

 

Worse still, he was the prosecutor of the case and he has used 'inside' information which, for any professional, is akin to debasing his profession.

 

His only 'way' out is to take on the president of his professional body in order to salvage some semblance of his totally lost professional integrity.

 

But is he able to? To all right-thinking people, what was lost remained lost forever.

 

Vijay47: A cat may look at a queen but who is this bully who wants to debate the president of the Bar Council? With one simple dismissive wave of his hand, the president reduced you to the nonentity that you are.

 

If you think you have been aggrieved, if you have an axe to grind, Shafee, your best approach would be to attend the Council's AGM (annual general meeting) and take on Leong.

 

With no friends in high places to support you and make undue decisions in your favour, you will not last long and Leong will make mincemeat out of you.

 

Following that, you may not be too enthusiastic about roadshows. Unless it is with a circus, a vocation you are more suited for.

                                   

Speaking Sense: Leong talks sense, the minister talks nonsense. But it would have been even more dignified for Leong to have just ignored the minister's cheap and silly publicity stunt.

 

Abasir: Concepts like 'dignity of office’, 'ethical behaviour' and 'decorum' are alien to the pygmies of Umno.

 

But they compensate all that with their obsession with Armani suits, expensive watch collections, big cars, tall buildings and RM1,200 hair dye treatments.

 

 

Minister wants Bar chief to debate with Shafee

Speaking Sense: So now Umno ministers are apologists and event organisers for a private lawyer? What is this country coming to? Have these ministers no sense of propriety?

 

As individuals they may be inconsequential, but don't they know they have to at least maintain some respect for the office and cannot just do things in their official capacity according to their silly whims and fancies?

 

We are not interested in what Shafee has to say because the people don't believe he can contribute anything useful to interpretation of the law.

 

Maybe he can fool some people with sordid tales but we have enough ministers and leaders in Umno playing to the gallery already.

Ipohcrite: Shabery Cheek indeed has the cheek to suggest such a debate and is even willing to organise it, even though it will bring the office of the attorney-general into disrepute.

 

If I were him, I wouldn't be too cocksure about taking Shafee's advice on this matter. He should first consult Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi who has been led by the nose by the same person into issuing the letter vouching for alleged kingpin Paul Phua.

 

Odysseus: Shabery seems to be very keen in organising debates. How about having one between the head of ruling party and head of opposition? I believe the nation is waiting for this for a long time.


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