Footprints of a Judge's Journey Through Mother Earth

Footprints of a Judge's Journey Through Mother Earth &
The Justice Vincent Ng Scholarship Fund

'Footprints of a Judge's Journey Through Mother Earth’
A book based on Dato' Vincent Ng's Judgments
Launched by Tan Sri Arifin Zakaria Chief Judge of Malaya

Seated Karpal Singh Esq, Mr Justice Dato Vincent Ng

Standing
Mrs Elaine Chang, Lim Hui Ling co-Author,
Tan Sri Arifin, Datuk V K Liew
Deputy Minister at the Prime Minister's Dept,
President Robin, Alex Chang Esq, Principal Author
Datin Theresa Ng,

His Excellency James Keith, Ambassador of USA to Malaysia
Mr Justice Dato Hishamudin Yunus, Judge of the Court of Appeal
Khoo Guan Huat Esq, co-author

'We appeal for more
donations, tax
exempted donors of
RM1000 or more will
receive a book. For
a copy of the forms.

Mr Justice Dato Vincent Ng
presenting a cheque of
RM100,000 to President
Robin Tay,
Witnessed by
The Rt Hon Tan Sri Arifin
Zakaria
Chief Judge of Malaya,
Organising Chairman and
Principal Author
Rtn Alex Chang Esq

Organising Chairman, co author, Rotarian Alex Chang,
presenting a memento to:
The Rt Hon Tan Sri Arifin Zakaria Chief Judge of Malaya

In October 2008, Mr Justice Dato Vincent Ng,
then a judge of the Court of Appeal, Malaysia
was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

These were his thoughts:

"One morning at 3am, soon after I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, I
was suddenly awakened and confronted with the thought of my mortality and
the question: as I journey through mother Earth only once, how do I leave my
footprints, however small, of this travel.

Then, I recalled that during my long career on the bench, with so many of my
judgments published by the law journals, some members of the bar and even
a few judges had suggested that certain interesting passages could be
excerpted and compiled into a book form. I thought why not - if in the
process of so doing, I could also raise some money for charity for the poor in
this unprecedented era of the impending world economic turmoil and
hardship. To bring about implementation and happy fruition of this project,
the names of two lawyers quite readily came to mind. They had often
appeared before me in intricate cases, and I must say, despite some light
censures by me for improvement, they had consistently demonstrated focus,
dedication, passion and doggedness in pursuing their clients' cause before
me - though I am indeed proud to note that they have not won every case
before me. So both Alex Chang Huey Wah Esq. and Khoo Guan Huat
Esq. became my natural choice to lead the team to undertake this unique
task at hand. The credit should be ascribed to and abide with them for their
hard work as this will be the first of such work in the annals of the legal
history, and probably the last."

So the co authors and I began to work and on the compiling planning for the
donation drive. On August 17, 2009, we are proud to announce that we
have raised the sum of RM100,000 from donations in cash and RM20,000 in
kind in the form of books from the Malaysian Current Law Journal totaling
RM120,000, to set up the 'The Justice Vincent Ng Scholarship Fund',
managed by the Rotary Club of Pudu.
For the speech of
Alex Chang click here...

Tan Sri Arifin
Zakaria
Chief Judge of
Malaya gave us the
honour of launching
the book.

The other guests:

The Honourable
Deputy Minister in
the Prime Minister's
Department Datuk
VK Liew,

His Excellency
James Keith, US
Ambassador,

The Honourable
Tan Sri Abdul Aziz,
Judge of the Federal
Court, Retired,

Honourable Judges
of the Appellate
Courts, the High
Court,
Retired Judges and
retired members of
the Judiciary

Honourable Judges
of the Sessions
Court,
Registrars of the
various courts,
federal counsel.

And of course from
Rotary

President of the
Rotary Club of
Robin Tay

The Past District
Governor Sir KB Lee

The District
Governor Elect Lim
Kok Beng 09/10

Chairman of the
Past Presidents’
Council Ng Sim Bee

Past Presidents
Rotarians and
Guests.