KUCHING: Law students and anyone interested in reading up books on the judiciary process can now do so at the Kuching City South Council (MBKS) library, thanks to the Advocates’ Association of Sarawak (AAS).
BOOKS OF LAW: (from left) Thomson Reuters sales manager Gan Tze Yong, Tang, Chan, AAS committee member Leonard David Shim, AAS vice-president Khairil Azmi Mohamad Hasbie and MBKS assistant city secretary John Lee Hok Kong with some of the books donated to the library.
MBKS mayor James Chan expressed his happiness over the donation, stating that the up-to-date reference books valued at RM20,000 will help save taxpayer’s money.
“The council always allocates money to buy books for the library, and law books cost thousands. Now we can spend the money on the council’s core responsibility areas,” Chan said during the handover of the books at MBKS yesterday.
AAS president Frank Tang said the books, published by Sweet & Maxwell, should prove useful.
“There is a healthy cross-section of topics that the public will be interested in,” Tang said.
He added that a few titles in the pile of 67 books are expensive that even some lawyers cannot afford them.
While the tomes can help people figure out how to approach legal situations, Chan requested that anyone planning to use that knowledge engage experts first.