Bar Council and Thai Embassy team up to provide legal help for Thai citizens

The Bar Council and the Royal Thai Embassy have launched a legal aid scheme called the Thai Citizens Legal Aid Scheme in an effort to extend legal assistance to Thai nationals in the country.

“This new agreement between the embassy and the Malaysian Bar will expand the scope of the T-CLAS to cover northern states, namely Perlis, Kedah, Penang, Kelantan, and Terengganu. This is because there are a lot of Thai citizens in those states,“ he told reporters here, after the launch.“Currently, this cooperation is only with Thailand.

The areas in which the scheme provides assistance to Thai citizens includes Shariah law, those who are seeking clemency for inmates on the death sentence and family-related cases. “Currently in Kuala Lumpur there is a team of 40 lawyers and now with the expansion of this scheme to other states, we will conduct more training due to the scheme’s expansion,“ he added.

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