MALAYSIAN BAR

The Malaysian Bar app is aimed at two main audience groups; Members of the Bar and the public.

Available both in the App Store for iOS users and Google Play for Android users, the app is the platform where effective communication and engagements can be made between the Malaysian Bar and its various stakeholders namely the Members of the Bar, members of the public, ministries and agencies that the Bar work closely with, the judiciary, the Attorney General’s Chambers, the Legal Profession Qualifying Board, etc.

Members’ App Features:
§ Continuing Professional Development (CPD): calendar listing and registration with online payment option of events organized by the Malaysian Bar

§ Searchable information, news, press statements issued by the Malaysian Bar

§ Listing of firms’ contact information and details of areas of practice. GPS-enabled maps linking to address coordinates provided.

§ Links to relevant government ministries and agencies that the Malaysian Bar work with

§ Listing of Members’ circulars and Members’ only news / information

§ Digital library: listing of rules / regulations governing legal practice

§ Job listing for Member firms

§ Links to the Malaysian Bar’s social media platforms

§ Off-line usage capability

Public App Features:
§ Find-a-Lawyer / Find-a- Law Firm: Allows the public to search for lawyers and law firms with links to maps / GPS coordinates at any location / vicinity (within Peninsular Malaysia) of their choice

§ Searchable information, news, press statements issued by the Malaysian Bar

§ Link with the Legal Profession Qualifying Board on its role, information on recognised universities and Certificate in Legal Practice (CLP) eligibility, application and other related information

§ Information on public events organized by the Malaysian Bar: Increase public and civil society engagement with the Malaysian Bar and its work for the community and society

§ Public information on the importance of the rule of law and constitutional rights as a citizen of Malaysia

§ Public information on the Malaysian Bar’s Legal Aid and National Legal Aid Foundation programmes

§ Public complaint channel against lawyers and information on lawyers who are being struck-off the rolls