President's Message

Message from G.B.B.NANDY @ GAANESH JP, AMN, President, Sabah Law Association

It is indeed an honour and privilege to be given the opportunity to write a few words in the Sabah Law Association’s website as its President for the term 2011 to 2013.
 
First and foremost, I wish to express my sincere and humble gratitude to the members for electing me as the President of this prestigious association. At the same time, please accept my profuse apologizes for not writing this message much earlier. This is because I was rather tied up attending to several matters that needed the Association’s urgent attention. Besides that, I was trying my level best to streamline and restructure the administration of our Secretariat as I believe that our “house” must be put in order to serve the members better.

As I have said at the Annual General Meeting held on 30th June 2011, I would make it a priority, among others, to look into the following matters during my term as the President of the Sabah Law Association for the years 2011-2013:

1.                  to use all the available avenues to push hard for the amendments to the Sabah Advocates Ordinance to come into force and while waiting for that, I will work hard for the proposed Pupillage Rules and  Web-Site Rules, among others, to be gazetted;
2.                  to push for speedier sub-division of titles and issuance of subsidiary titles; and
3.                  to propose and to make amendments to the Sabah Law Association’s Constitution, among others, include:
                     (i)                 to allow branches to be established in Tawau and Sandakan to encourage members to participate and to play a more active role in the affairs of our Association; and
                    (ii)                to restrict the term of office that can be held by the President.
 
Apart from looking into the matters stated above, the Sabah Law Association has, in this short span of time, been very busy holding series of meetings to address various issues and problems associated with enforcement of the “no discount” rule (that came into force on 1st October 2010) which is of utmost importance to us.
 
Lastly, I respectfully urge all the members to support the Sabah Law Association by giving feed-back /input regularly regarding the problems faced in the course of practice as an advocate and also to inform us about how the Sabah Law Association should improve itself. We welcome all valuable criticisms and we pledge to work harder to serve you better.
 
G.B.B.NANDY @ GAANESH JP, AMN

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ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF SABAH LAW ASSOCIATION AT THE OPENING OF THE LEGAL YEAR 2012 FOR SABAH AND SARAWAK COURTS AT BINTULU, SARAWAK

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Message from the Sabah law Association’s President at the 38th SLA Annual Dinner (2008)
At the elevation ceremoney of YA Tuan David Wong Dak Wah as High Court Judge (May 2007)
At the elevation ceremoney of YA Datuk Linton Albert as High Court Judge (Mar 2005)