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The first week of my practical course has already passed and the experience on ‘how tired and exhausted working as civil servant’ is another personal things that I have to face either as a reminder of my mother’s challenging working position or as another views of my future working prospect.

The Selangor Legal Aid Bureau is proposing for expending its civil jurisdiction to any legal disputes pertaining to Industrial Relation, Labour, Tort and Contract. For this mission, an ample statistical data is required to justify the necessity of the need to expend its functions and of course to review cases commencing from January to November is a tall order. I have the opportunity to review hundreds of application forms from hundreds applicants who desired to receive either legal aid or legal advice in various legal field. Some of them have sufficient merit for filing a civil suit and some of them only come with the intention to prolong the court proceeding or else, a litigious personnel (What else you want us to do if without any shadow of doubt your husband has been charge for possession of drug under DDA? and what else we can do if you want to sue PDRM for mean words they uttered to you in the course of investigation?)

From hundreds forms of applications and cases, I need to identify the issues accrued either in Tort, Labour and Contract, and further transform it into a statistical data. Not to mention, you knew already how tough the tasks were, isn’t it? Thanks God, I have excellent co-trainees working together with me. Ahaks...

Basically, that is what I have been through yesterday. For the several days ago, I accompanied my 2ndmentor, Cik Hani Aziza, the Deputy Director to court, observing how to register application for legal aid and legal advice, interview and conduct investigation with applicant and aggrieved party (the client) and indentify their problems (some of them came with anger, hatred, and tears), federal statute review of Legal Aid Act and providing our report and expectation to the Director. For syariah division, early exposure helps me with Islamic Family Law course for next semester.

Here, I have been trained in two cells medium, either direct under the Director, Puan Noor Sakinah Bt. Haroon Arashid, or sometimes direct under the lawyer a.k.a the Deputy Director. Next session will be ‘Klinik Guaman’ at KUIS, (Kolej Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Selangor) and applicant who seeking for mitigation before court at Penjara Sungai Buloh.

I’m alone at my apartment right now. Starving. It’s Aidil Adha, where to go to entertain my stomach...........