Description
Practical Aspects on How Law Firms Can Manage Dawn Raids
Dawn raids are among the most disruptive and intimidating actions that enforcement agencies can take. They are unannounced, intrusive, and often leave little time to react. For lawyers and their clients, a raid can unfold without warning — and the way you respond in those first critical moments may have lasting consequences.
The Bar Council Committee on AMLA is once again organising this important webinar to equip Members with practical strategies and insights on how to handle dawn raids effectively.
Drawing on real-world experiences and expert guidance, the session will cover:
- Your rights and obligations during a raid
- The critical do’s and don’ts when enforcement officers arrive
- Protecting client confidentiality under pressure
- Best practices for law firms to be raid-ready
This webinar goes beyond theory. It will walk you through what really happens when enforcement officers come knocking — and how to safeguard yourself, your firm, and your clients when every decision counts.
Speaker
Karen Cheah Yee Lynn is the immediate past President of the Malaysian Bar. Her presidential term was from March 2022 to March 2024. She was the Chairman of the Malacca State Bar Committee from 2012 to 2015 and has been a Bar Council Member since 2012. She was appointed as Treasurer of the Malaysian Bar for the terms 2013/2014 and 2014/2015. Following this, she served as Secretary of the Malaysian Bar for the terms 2015/2016 and 2016/2017. She is the current Chairperson of the Bar Council Committee on AMLA and Co-Chairperson of the Bar Council International Policy and Practice Committee.
Vivek Sukumaran has experience in handling litigation matters involving constitutional disputes (political parties and societies), corporate and commercial disputes, land acquisition, corporate recovery, insolvency, debt recovery and employment disputes, in all courts. He has also undertaken cases for and against insurance institutions. He also defends white-collar criminal prosecutions involving Securities Commission Malaysia (“SC”) and MACC. He is the founding partner of Asyraf, Vivek & Wee, Kuala Lumpur.
He is the elected Member of the Bar Council for the term 2025/2026. Before this, Vivek was the Kuala Lumpur Bar Representative on the Bar Council for the term 2024/2025, Chairman of the Kuala Lumpur State Bar Committee for the 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 terms. He is the current Co-Chairperson of the Bar Council Criminal Law Committee for the term 2025/2026 and the Bar Council Strategic Litigation Committee for the term 2025/2026.
Terms and Conditions
Event Policy
Places are limited and registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. The registration for this session will close on 1 October 2025 (Wednesday), at 5:30 pm.
For events with registration fees, all payments must be made in advance, including bank charges. Registration will be confirmed once full payment is received.
The organiser reserves the right to modify, cancel or postpone the event, should circumstances arise that make such action necessary, whereupon all registration fees paid will be refunded.
Cancellation
Cancellations must be made in writing.
Please note that there will be no refunds for cancellations, but substitutions are allowed. Kindly inform us in writing with the relevant details at least three days in advance.
If you have failed to inform the organiser on your cancellation for three consecutive times, you may be blacklisted for future events.
Transferral
You are allowed to transfer your place to another participant, but you must notify the organiser with the necessary details at least three days in advance.
Attendance
CPD points for CPD Scheme will not be awarded to lawyers and pupils in chambers from Peninsular Malaysia who arrive more than 15 minutes late, are not present throughout the event, or leave before its scheduled end.
Privacy
The personal information that you provide to the Malaysian Bar, whether now or in the future, may be used, recorded, stored, disclosed or otherwise processed by or on behalf of the Malaysian Bar for the purposes of facilitation and organisation of this event, research and audit, maintenance of a participant database for the promotion of this event, and such ancillary services as may be relevant.
Disclaimer
- Materials (if any) will be emailed only. No printed notes will be provided.
- No recording of the event is permitted via any means at any time.
- No part of the event content may be used/reproduced in any form without the written and explicit consent of the Malaysian Bar and speaker(s).
