Elder Law: Understanding Filial Piety – A Precursor

The word “filial” is an adjective meaning “of a son or daughter and filial duty/respect/affection”. “Filial” is often coupled with the phrase “filial piety”, a noun that is defined as “reverence for parents considered in Chinese ethics the prime virtue and the basis of all human rights relations”. Elder law which deals with the care for elders and their rights is premised to a certain extent on filial responsibility. This is not to say that all aspects of elder law are based on filial piety or responsibility. There could be moral, social and economic undertones to rationalize elder care and elder law.

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Dr Jaspal Kaur Sadhu Singh
2018-03-16

Social Distinction in the Coffeehouse

The recent rise of the third-wave coffee culture represents a worldwide change in the perception of the common place commodity of coffee, an everyday beverage, and also a part of thriving, grinding, billion-dollar industry.  This article reviews some of the existing scholarly literature relating to coffeehouses and social distinction. It begins with the literature on coffee itself as a vehicle of consuming difference and then goes on to look at studies of the relationship between coffeehouse and social distinction.

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Helen Sneha Jambunathan
2018-03-16

Gandhi: Walking With Us Today

The speech Gandhi: Walking With Us Today was addressed at the 6th Gandhi Memorial Lecture on 2 October 2016 in Kuala Lumpur by Gurdial Singh Nijar.

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Gurdial Singh Nijar
2018-02-14

I Give You this Orange — The Need for Lawyers to Rethink the Way They Write and Use Plain English

Law is a profession of words and writing is a tool of the lawyer’s trade. This article define what is plain English, consider the background to the plain English movement. Finally, it will suggest measures which can be employed to make legal writing more easily understandable.

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Harpajan Singh
2018-02-14

A Mere Matter of Words

The Titular Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur moved for judicial review as they were dissatisfied with the Home Minister’s refusal to permit Herald to use the word of “Allah”. Under our constitution there are two ways in which a legislature – state or federal – may violate the provisions of the Federal Constitution. Was the judge in the case of Archbishop correct in describing what was being done as ‘collateral’? If she was not, then what she said was a mere matter of words.

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Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram
2017-11-14

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