A RECENT report highlighting the poor performance of candidates in Malaysia’s Certificate in Legal Practice (CLP) examination has exposed a growing and troubling issue – the declining proficiency of English among budding lawyers.
Examiners lamented not only the candidates’ weak grasp of legal concepts but, more alarmingly, their inability to write and reason properly in English, Malaysia’s working language of law.
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