Eusoffe abdoolcader biography
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Eusoffe Abdoolcader
Malaysian judge
Eusoffe Abdoolcader (11 September 1924– 11 January 1996) was a Malaysian judge of the Federal Court from 1974 to 1988. Eusoffe was a respected lawyer and Supreme Court judge, remembered by his peers and juniors as perhaps the greatest judge Malaysia had seen.[1]
Education
[edit]At the age of 15, he passed his Senior Cambridge examinations with distinctions but he was too young to gain access to Raffles College in Singapore, which stipulated a minimum age of 17. He repeated his examinations and finally with his father's influence gained a seat in Raffles. He alleged that he was 'ragged' by Lee Kuan Yew.[2]
Eusoffe read law at University College London, graduating with an LL.B. First Class Honours.[3]
Legacy
[edit]As an advocate at the Bar, Abdoolcader was unsurpassed in his knowledge of the law and unmatchable in his advocacy, earning him a reputation as a formidable opponent.[3] Lawyers and la
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While researching for an article on Malaysia’s former Lord President of the Federal Court of Malaysia,Tun Salleh Abas’ dismissal in 1988, our friends at SOSCILI found out yet another interesting story involving one of the five Supreme Court judges who were suspended at that time. The judge’s name is Tan Sri Eusoffe Abdoolcader.
Eusoffe was admired for his authoritative and fair judgment. In fact, he is said to be the greatest judge Malaysia has ever had. But before he became the greatest judge..
Eusoffe was once bullied by seniors in his college and one of them was… Lee Kuan Yew!?
Eusoffe was born into the Abdoolcader family and, according to historian Khoo Kay Kim, the family was one of Malaysia’s well-known families back then. So fam
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LEE KOK HOONG
This article was published in LoyarBurok.com today.
http://www.loyarburok.com/2013/10/28/lawyers-judges-writers/
I was in Secondary Two when inom first read Lloyd Fernando’s anthology, 22 Malaysian Short Stories. Among the contributors to that anthology was a Lee Kok Liang. I remember that name because of the similarity with mine. I enjoyed Lee’s writings, and went on to read “Mutes in the Sun”, “Flower in the Sky”, etc. Years later, I learnt that Lee was first, a Penang-based lawyer, and secondly, a writer! That was when I started nurturing an ambition to become a lawyer.
My late father, of around the same age as Lee, strongly objected to my ambition. A driver throughout his entire working life, he was also a young activist of some Malayan bus workers’ union in the 1950s. Having become a more mature and family man bygd the 1970s, Father was saddened to read the news about the previous legal advisor to his old trade union — the legal advisor had eliminated his