State of Statelesness

Speaker

Annou Xavier graduated from the London University and was admitted to the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn in 1996. He was later called to the Malaysian Bar in October 1997. Since then, he has been an active practitioner, specializing in the area of corporate and Intellectual Property with many of his cases being reported in the MLJ, CLJ and AMR. Annou has also been involved in some high profile human rights and controversial constitutional law cases, such as the case on the use of the ‘Allah’ word, the demolition of the Orang Asli place of worship, citizenship cases involving stateless children and spouses in Malaysia. He has been invited by Suhakam, NGOs and 'Foreign Spouses Support Group' to give talks and advise on statelessness.