Learning By Example

Recent vote-taking at the Council's Workplan 2001 session saw us walking down the careful road of hand-counting the voting slips. There was nary a chad nor parking coupon in sight, although a few Council Members were hit by the car park attendant's vigilance when they failed to display sufficient coupons before venturing forth to this annual brain-storming session.

Parking chop
More on parking.

Recent foreign delegates at a seminar at the Ming Court Vista Hotel in Kuala Lumpur raised eyebrows when they saw a ceremonial rostrum bearing a strange object called a 'Parking Chop'. Clearly not of the edible variety (pork chop, lamb chop, mutton chop, etc), it was left to our Singapore delegates, more familiar with such matters and the local lingo, to explain that the purpose of this 'chop' was to validate parking coupons for free parking facilities for conference delegates.

The Law Society's PMT

People, Money and Time, or the lack thereof, was how one Council Member succinctly summarised the major problems faced by the Law Society of Singapore, at its Workplan 2001 Meeting. Women over the world will probably agree! 

Jaws IV?

The Right Honourable Dame Sian Elias, the Chief Justice of New Zealand, drew chuckles from the delegates at the recent LAWASIA Business Law Conference when she made an unscheduled summary of the Conference's papers.

Referring to ‘Tara’s Theme’ (from the movie Gone With the Wind), which had been played to open the session, her Honour suggested that perhaps the theme from Jaws would have been more appropriate, ‘Just when we thought it was safe to return to the water again’, referring to the luncheon talk by Mr Palakrishnan, President of The Law Society of Singapore, who had warned of the perils of the emerging Life Sciences.