THE Malaysian Bar wishes to congratulate Cecil Rajendra (pic), a member of the Bar, on being awarded the International Bar Association (IBA) Pro Bono Award for 2019.
Self-described as “a lawyer by profession and a poet by compulsion”, Rajendra, 78, blazed a path for the Bar as we know it today, championing the establishment of legal aid clinics across the country, after initiating the first rural legal aid clinic – the Penang Legal Advisory Centre – in 1980.
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