Guide For Chambering Students | Filing Form 1, Affidavit and Form 2

I have this kind of thought - why study law when you have no intention of becoming a lawyer. Yeah but I know, that kind of thinking is not generally applicable. Some people may learn it for the purpose of knowledge in fact they do not even have an interest of practicing law.

Forget about that and I'll proceed about what I really want to share here. For those law students who are about to finish their studies I believe most of them plan to proceed with pupillage/chambering. Thus, you must have knowledge on how to file your Form 1, Affidavit and Form 2.

First of all you must aware that Form 1 is actually you Petition and then you've Affidavit for that Petition and Form 2 is the Notice. You must properly fill these documents and make sure there is no error on these three papers. I'll guide you later on how to fill these three papers.

After you've filled these three papers, they are ready to be filed. So this is the tiring part if you do not know how to start and where to go. After you've completed the documents, you must head to Kompleks Mahkamah Kuala Lumpur at Jalan Duta (if you do not where the hell Mahkamah KL is, please look up at Google Map).

Once you reach at Mahkamah Kuala Lumpur, please go first to Bahagian Rayuan dan Kuasa-Kuasa Khas or in short they call it "RKK". You should meet the staff at RKK as they will assist to check your Form 1, Affidavit and Form 2 before you can proceed for E-Filing. At this very first stage, it will be hurtful if your papers are problematic ie error in filling the documents. If everything is okay, they you're good to proceed with E-Filing.

Before I forget, how to go to RKK? When you step into Kompleks Mahkamah KL, please take the stairs on your left, then turn to your left, and find the RKK sign. After your papers have been checked, please return to ground level and proceed to right wing office (on your left when you're walking downwards the stair). Please move to Counter 4 where you need to fill the form for e-filing and to obtain your queue number.

Basically in kinda a long process, and my colleague has prepared a flow chart to file these three papers. If you want to make life easier, you may contact him and deal with him with regard the guide/the flow chart of filing Form 1, Affidavit and Form 2 (he may charge you for the chart because he put his best effort to observe the process and put his best effort to prepare that nice and easy flow chart).

You may contact him via his Facebook here -  Ahmad Afiq (Kyle Fahkrurazzi).

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When 7 Years of Standing of Your Master Start?

I know there a lot of law students out there are the final year/final semester law students and I suppose you've already planned what you're going to do next. But the idea is that you're always encourage to do your chambering (remember the word "chambering" is our custom, and it's never existed in your LPA). Chambering or you should call it as "pupillage" is a requirement, and you should not do it just for fun.

There are many things you need consider before choosing which firm you intend to join. But the only matter I want to share here is the standing of your master. Legal Provision Act 1976 clearly provides that your master must be in active practice for seven years.

13. (1) Subject to subsection (4) a pupil shall serve his period of pupillage with an advocate and solicitor who is and has been in active practice in Malaysia for a total period of not less than seven years immediately preceding the date of commencement of his pupillage.

The question is how you calculate that seven years standing? If you're looking up in Bar Council Directory, you'll find your master profile in which the profile states the date of admission to the Bar. It will give you an impression that the period of seven years started from that date of admission. If you rely on that, you may have a problem later.

I filed my petition on 22nd March 2012. My master's date of admission was January 2005. If you count it, it already exceed 7 years. A week later, Bar Council called me and told me my master still does not completed 7 years of standing. I asked why because his admission was January 2005. And Bar Council informed me the calculation of 7 years only start from the first Practitioner Certificate of your master.

So, if you're master was called to the bar after year 2000, you must confirm with your master his/her first PC. Then you can calculate the 7 years standing. What happened to me caused me to get new master and file again in which I did on 12 April. Hence, I will finish my pupillage a lil bit late compared to other friends who already got their short-call.

May this information help you later.

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