Uphill task to turn out good lawyers


The high-level task force the Attorney-General and Bar Council are planning to set up to reform legal education faces a huge challenge.

FIVE years ago, former Federal Court judge Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram said that lawyers, most of whom graduated from local universities, ranged from “the good to the grotesque.”

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