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PETALING JAYA: Unscrupulous legal firms have now resorted to using chambering students to solicit clients at magistrates’ courts, say several senior criminal lawyers.
The senior lawyers, who declined to be named, also revealed that touting tactics have evolved over the past few years, with chambering students now being assigned to courthouses to stake out potential clients.
“Last time, you could find touts who were not lawyers. But now, they have changed the modus operandi and a lot of touting is done by using chambering students.
“These chambering students will be based at one court, and when we see them, we can’t actually accuse them of touting because they will then say they are chambering students, ” said a criminal lawyer based in Kuala Lumpur who only wanted to be known as “Anne”.
Ex-Uber driver acquitted of kidnapping Pastor Koh
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Former Uber driver Lam Chang Nam has been acquitted of the kidnapping of Pastor Raymond Koh four years ago.
The accused now only has one charge against him, which is an extortion charge linked to Koh’s disappearance in 2017. The Petaling Jaya Magistrate’s Court will deliver its decision on this on April 30.
Lam’s counsel Aaron Mark Pius told
Malaysiakini today that the lower court allowed their application to acquit the accused on Feb 8 during open court.
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PETALING JAYA: The Datuk and another individual involved in an assault at a hotpot restaurant have been released on police bail.
This came after a bid by the police to extend their remand was rejected by the court, according to their lawyer Datuk Suraj Singh.
“The investigating officer’s application to the court for (further) remand in this case has been rejected, ” he said yesterday.
Both suspects were brought to the Petaling Jaya Magistrate’s Court at about 11am after their two-day remand, from Friday, expired.
Petaling Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Nik Ezanee Mohd Faisal said the police were in the midst of completing the investigation.
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Two men, including a Datuk, who were detained by the police after they were believed to be involved in beatings and intimidation at a restaurant last Tuesday, were released on bail.
Earlier, the two men, aged 39 and 42, were remanded for two days ending today but the Petaling Jaya Magistrate Court rejected an application to extend the remand of the two suspects.
Petaling Jaya District Police Chief, Assistant Commissioner Nik Ezanee Mohd Faisal said the police were completing an investigation paper on the incident and will present it to the Deputy Public Prosecutor for further action.