PETALING JAYA: Two former Bar Council presidents have called for a more cautious approach to an idea to liberalise the legal practice and make some legal practices – such as property purchases or the preparation of wills – simple enough for non-legally trained individuals to do by providing templates of legal documents.
In a text message to The Star, Bar Council immediate past president Christopher Leong said that while anyone with an education could draft their own simple wills, tenancy agreements or conveyancing documents – if they wished after obtaining templates from the internet and if basic legal advice was provided to them – they should ask themselves if they understood and knew the legal consequences of their actions.
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