Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The true colour of court practice

Chinese New Year is coming.. This year will be different from the last few years. Previously, I used to have my student's style of CNY celebration: having at least a week of vacation, buying new clothes without much thinking,paying several visits to relatives' and friends' place. After graduate, life have become so much different. Always lacking of time doing things like we all did in campus life. Now, if I'll have free time, I'll rather get enough sleep, keep fit and to enhance self-competency in order to survive among the competitor and to maintain legal profession. No more day dreaming, no more slacking with friends... everything has become so material that will definitely has its purppose which should be useful to certain aspect of life.

Although there will be 6 days CNY's holidays. But, in view of a week of trials that commenced right after the CNY, such holidays turn out to be the precious moment of preparation of trials, it might be the most pressure CNY I'll ever have in my life. What a sad thing it is? Despite of the stress holidays that the law practitioner always have... we also have to bear with those who deem expert but in fact not, in the court. Especially the lower court.

I was assigned a JID file appear before the Magistrate today. I've been through a
series of hurdles there. Once the crazy Mag knew that I'm a pupil, she starts being fussy, tricky and deliberately to embarrasse me. She suddenly ask me to produce something that is unneccessary and I don't have. It ends up the second prayer was strike out. After this experience, I was a little discouraged by the Malaysian court system. And start feeling annoying to see their face. Why should I bow to an arrogant stupid? Why should I keep on stressing the words "with your permission"? Why should I still say "thank you" after have been scolded by a stupid? All these seem radiculous to me and I suddenly feel that those practice are uncomfortable to me.
Is this field suit me?

But when I think further,all these are the skills and profession that we need. Litigation is all about the dispute resolution. Dispute that not only between the parties in a contentious matter but you can easily get involved in everyday dispute which is inevitable: among peers, colleagues, superior, inferior and family. This is an art of communication and then, the way to reconciliation. In this point time, I just cannot believe that I can change my view within a second...well... sometimes, we shouldn't be too assertive, to me, everything happens with its cause and there must be something for us to learn. So, just don't afraid of failure, this is how life is moving.

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