PETALING JAYA: Prominent lawyer Shafee Abdullah failed to secure a spot on the Bar Council after a gaggle of youthful activist attorneys took many of the high 16 locations within the council election in the present day.
Among these within the high 16 are activists who deal with public curiosity and human rights circumstances as effectively as constitutional issues.
Fahri Azzat, who represents girls’s rights group Sisters in Islam, got here in high place with 2,449 votes. Anand Raj, the present Bar secretary, got here in second with 2,413 votes whereas human rights lawyer New Sin Yew completed third with 2,301 votes.
Some 39 attorneys vied for the report 16 seats for the council’s 2024-2025 time period.
Gregory Das, who got here in tenth, is the son of former Bar president Cyrus Das, whereas Azmi Ali, who took sixth place, is a senior accomplice in one of many largest authorized companies within the nation.
Four girls have been among the many high 16, together with former Selangor Bar chairman V Kokila Vaani in fourth place, and present Bar treasurer Murshidah Mustafa, who got here in twelfth.
Shafee managed only one,251 votes, ending in twenty second place.
He got here to prominence in recent times representing former prime minister Najib Razak. In August, Shafee had sought RM2 million in damages from the Malaysian Bar for its pursuit of a movement to censure him through the 2015 annual normal assembly,
Last month, eNM reported that Shafee, a member of the 2006-2009 council, may very well be eyeing the presidency after his long-drawn battle with the council management over a number of years.
The high 16 in in the present day’s election will be part of 26 different members representing every state within the Peninsula to elect the Bar’s new president, secretary and treasurer after the annual assembly in March.
The present president is Karen Cheah.
The high 16 finishers within the Bar Council election have been:
Fahri Azzat; Anand Raj; New Sin Yew; V Kokila Vaani; Larissa Ann Louis; Azmi Ali; Peter-Douglas Ling; Sarah Yong; Tunku Farik Ismail; Gregory Das; Kee Hui Yee; Murshidah Mustafa; Collin Arvind Andrew; Yasmeen Shariff; Farez Jinnah; and Abhi Subramaniam.
