PUTRAJAYA, Jan 7 – The Malaysian Judiciary will hold the opening ceremony of Legal Year 2016 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre this Friday. A press release issued by the Corporate Communications and International Relations Division, Chief Registrar’s Office, Federal Court, said the event would start off with a procession by judges of the Federal Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, judicial officers, officers from the Attorney General’s Chambers and lawyers marching to the Main Hall of the Convention Centre, where the ceremony would begin.
The procession which is part of a yearly tradition is symbolic as it marks the start of the 2016 legal year in Malaysia. The ceremony is scheduled to be be attended by Chief Justice Tun Arifin Zakaria, Court of Appeal president, Tan Sri Md Raus Sharif, Chief Judge of Malaya Tan Sri Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin, Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Tan Sri Richard Malanjum, Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali and Malaysian Bar Council president Steven Thiru.
According to the press release, Thailand’s Constitutional Court President, the deputy chief justices of Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia, the Sarawak Lawyers Association president, Sabah Law Association president and representatives of the Bar Councils of Australia, Brunei, Myanmar, Germany, LAWASIA, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, England and South Africa were also expected to attend the ceremony.
