Kuala Lumpur, 8 August 2011: Shearn Delamore & Co, one of the oldest and largest legal firms in Malaysia, has agreed to support MLTIC Employment Law Portal as part of their corporate social responsibility initiatives. An agreement to this effect was signed today afternoon by the parties at Shearn Delamore’s office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Mr. Sivabalah N [photo] (Partner and Head of Employment and Administrative Law practice group) signed on behalf Shearn Delamore, while Mr. Rajesh C Muttath [photo] (Executive Editor of MLTIC Portals) signed on behalf of Muttath KM Services Sdn Bhd (MKMS), the promoters of MLTIC portals including the MLTIC Employment Law portal.
Among those witnessed the signing include Mr. Raymond Low and Ms. Suganthi Singam, both partners with Shearn Delamore & Co.
"Shearn Delamore & Co is glad to be part of MKMS' effort to promote Free Access to Law in Malaysia. As one of the larger practices, we believe that it is our responsibility to ensure that local legal information is usefully disseminated. We hope lawyers, corporate counsels and HR professionals would find the information and updates useful”, commented Mr. Sivabalah.
MLTIC Executive Editor Mr. Rajesh C Muttath said: “We at MLTIC are pleased to have Shearn Delamore & Co on board. For a Firm which has its own infra structure and resources to gather and share legal information, this support [of MLTIC portal] involves an element of selflessness. I see it as an act of a true leader.”
ABOUT the Portal
The Portal (accessible at www.mylabourlaw.info
), the first-of-its-kind web portal in the Region, provides free access to latest Malaysian labour law developments. It covers all categories of Malaysian labour law information: news, legislation, judgments, cases, rulings, events, books and articles. The Portal provides periodic e-mail alerts and syndication of updates by way of RSS feeds. It allows the users to search its archives for a stipulated period of time. The Portal, a Free Access to Law initiative, publishes all relevant legal developments on. It also allows the visitors.
It is a micro-site of MLTIC, the most popular web portal on Malaysian law and tax. MLTIC (read as M-L-Tick) or Malaysian Legal and Tax Information Centre is a cluster of web portals on Malaysian law and tax. MLTIC consists of a main portal and 9 micro-sites accessible at or via www.malaysianlaw.my. They provide daily updates of Malaysian legal and tax developments.
ABOUT Shearn Delamore & Co
Shearn Delamore & Co is a quintessential Malaysian firm, with much of its history and practices shaped by the multicultural and dynamic climate of Malaysia. This is reflected in the firm’s involvement in, and contribution to, the development of Malaysian jurisprudence in a myriad of diverse legal fields. Shearn Delamore & Co has a team of over 104 lawyers and further support staff of 250 within its offices in Kuala Lumpur and Penang, and is one of the oldest and largest law firms in the country.
Shearn Delamore is the first firm in the country to have a dedicated employment and administrative law practice. Its team, which comprises of 4 partners and 3 legal assistants, provides comprehensive representation and assistance to its clients at various forums and stages of employment related dispute resolution. For more information about the Employment and Administrative Law practice Group of Shearn Delamore, visit their website