Kota Kinabalu: Former Sabah Law Society President Datuk Roger Chin assured that SLS will continue to pursue the missing Coroner’s Inquiry reports into the Double Six tragedy.
Foo, the longest-serving Sabah attorney general from 1986 to 1999, died of natural causes.
Members of the public may pay their last respects at the Fook Lu Siew funeral parlour on Friday (June 4) from 9am to 6pm.
Foo will be buried at the Nirvana Memorial Park after a funeral service at 10.30am on Saturday.
Members of Sabah s legal fraternity described him as one the state s best legal minds, especially on issues of state rights and the Constitution.
Sabah Law Society president Roger Chin described him as a giant of the Sabah law fraternity . Many members of the Sabah Bar will always remember him as a walking library of Sabah state laws, as he had the unique ability of being able to recall exactly how and why a piece of legislation came about as well as its finer details, Chin said.
The governing law of the legal profession differs in Peninsular and East Malaysia. Should a party wish to commence a court action in East Malaysia, an advocate qualified under the Sabah or Sarawak Advocates Ordinance would have to be appointed. However, what about adjudication proceedings conducted under the Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012, which allows parties to "be represented by any representative appointed by the party"? The high court recently shed light on this matter.
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