Messrs Lim Hui Li 林蕙丽律师事务所

09/02/2024

祝大家在新的一年里拥有浩瀚无边的福气收获数不尽的喜悦！最重要的是，身体健康！新年快乐！

Wishing everyone boundless blessings and countless joy in the new year! May your days filled with good health and good luck! Happy New Year!

31/01/2024

Pray for a good decision.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Federal Court has set June 25 to hear the appeal of the Association of Family Support and Welfare Selangor and Kuala Lumpur (Family Frontiers) and six women against the Court of Appeal’s decision that children born abroad to Malaysian mothers married to foreign men are not entitl...

01/01/2024

Happy new year to everyone! May every wish of yours get fulfilled in the upcoming year!

24/12/2023

Wishing you a fabulous Christmas filled with good cheer, good beer, and memories of a wonderful year! Stay safe and happy holiday!

24/10/2023

AI might be applicable in some industries, but might not for legal industry.

KUALA LUMPUR: Legal practitioners, especially young practitioners, are reminded not to rely on artificial intelligence (AI) based large language model-based chatbot such as ChatGPT for finding instant answers in preparing their legal brief.

20/10/2023

一个人失踪了很多年，没有人看过他也没有人见过他，不知道生死。他有屋子，有银行存款，但是没办法确定生死。在法律上可以做些什么呢? 怎么继续处理他的留下的财产呢?

20/10/2023

Someone has been missing for years, no one has seen him/her during the period of time, you are not sure whether s/he is still alive. However, there are houses and savings account under his/her name. What you can do under the law and how to manage his/her assets?

05/10/2023

延续之前提过向法庭申请合法化私生子，有人提问: -

法庭怎么确定孩子的亲生父亲就是提呈申请的那个男人呢?
这个问题问对啦！法庭是有可能要求交出DNA 鉴定结果来确定提呈申请人就是孩子的亲生父亲。如果没办法提交的话，法庭会驳回申请。

曾经就有个案例，自称孩子亲生父母的两人坚决不呈交测试结果就被驳回了申请。接着还上诉裁决，但还是被法庭驳回，理由为按照法律，法庭有权利要求出示测试结果以确定此申请人就是孩子的亲生父亲。至于这对父母坚决不呈交的理由只有两人才知道，但站在第三者角度整个程序是浪费金钱也浪费时间。

那接下来有人又会问了：如果婚前生了孩子但是没有跟孩子亲生父亲结婚，而是跟另一个男人结婚，那孩子还是私生子吗?
答案是，对的。
再接下来的问题就是: 这种情况下，怎么合法化孩子?
答案就是通过领养程序让继父领养孩子，继父作为孩子父亲，孩子就不再是私生子了。

我们也曾经不只一次听过民众告诉我们: 就算孩子是亲生的, 只要是婚前出生的孩子都只能通过领养程序来把孩子合法化。
按照这个说法，孩子自己的亲生父亲就变成了养父……这就有点尴尬了。
所以，若是结婚的对象是孩子的亲生父亲，正确的法律程序是以孩子的亲生父亲身份把孩子合法化。再说，领养程序属复杂的程序，相对来说还需要更多的金钱和时间去处理，完全没必要。

以上就是我们与大家分享关于合法化私生子的程序的额外资讯啦！

Following our previous post about application to legitimate an illegitimate child, some people asked:-
How can the Court confirm the applicant is the child’s biological father?
This is a very good question! The Court might request DNA report from the applicants to confirm the child’s biological father. Without the DNA report, the Court can dismiss the application.

There was a case when the Court requested for a DNA report to be provided but the applicants refused to provide. As a result of this, the Court dismissed the application. The applicants appealed the decision but the appeal was dismissed on the ground that the request for the DNA report was well within the requirement under the law to verify the applicant is the child’s biological father. Without the DNA report, there is no conclusive proof to show the applicant is the child’s biological father. We are not sure about the true reason behind the refusal of the applicants to provide the DNA report. From our view, the proceedings especially the appeal is a waste of time and money.

Now, some people might ask, what if subsequently the biological mother did not marry the biological father but marry to another man, is the child still considered as an illegitimate child?

The answer is yes.

The next question is if this is the situation, how can we legitimise the illegitimate child?

The answer is by adoption procedure. In other words, the step father adopts the illegitimate child.

There is more than once we were told: as long as the child was born before the marriage between the biological parents was registered, the only procedure to legitimise the illegitimate child is by adoption procedure.

This is wrong. Adoption procedure is not the correct procedure to legitimise the illegitimate child subsequent to the marriage of the biological parents. The correct procedure is to apply for declaration to legitimise the illegitimate child as we discussed in previous post. If following the adoption procedure, the child’s biological father would become the child’s adoptive father, which is not making any sense. In addition, adoption procedure is a more complicated procedure required higher costs and longer time.

Above is the additional information about the application to legitimise an illegitimate child that we would like to share with you!

29/09/2023

前几日我们参加了非政府组织，International Justice Mission和马来西亚律师公会联合举办的研讨会，讨论了在马来西亚的非法移民以及反贩卖人口和反贩运移民法令。

这几年在邻国闹得沸沸扬扬的“卖猪仔”事件也不是史无前例。不只邻国，在马来西亚就曾有”猪仔“ 被卖到马来西亚，只是当时的社交媒体不如现今发达所以无人知晓。囚禁“猪仔”, 虐待”猪仔“ 也不是什么新鲜事了。但令人寒心的事，他们有些甚至不认为自己正在被虐待，被囚禁。

不少困在我国的非法移民在自己的国家被无良中介欺骗，被收取一笔”工作准证” 或者“护照”费用，再莫名其妙的偷渡到马来西亚。殊不知，那些所谓的工作准证以及护照都是伪造的，所以一到我国就被逮捕。接着就被扣留在移民局扣留营。幸运的，家人知道被捕还会想方设法找律师相救。倒霉的，可能也就长期被扣留。有些语言不通的，也不知道自己为什么被捕也不知道自己为什么被扣留，也不知道自己在哪里。根据移民局法令，非法入境一旦罪成，刑罚不只是坐牢以及罚款，还包括了鞭刑。

曾经受客户委托去处理移民局处理因逾期逗留以及持有伪造工作签证的案件，才惊觉市场上不少无良中介向各大公司索取巨额工作签证申请费用，但是所发的工作签证都是伪造的。他们的行为造成不少无辜的受害者被捕，而他们逍遥法外继续欺骗更多无辜的人，制造更多的悲剧。尽管是受害者但也还是按非法入境的罪名逮捕，审判。

因此奉劝各位，申请护照以及工作准证还请通过官方渠道去申请。现在的伪造文件技术不是我们肉眼可以判定，等到发现文件属于伪造文件的时候，十之八九就已经被执法人员逮捕了。

18/09/2023

大家好！为了能更加有效的帮助有需要的人，我们决定每个月开放一次通过Zoom 提供免费线上咨询给4个有需要的人。一次长达30分钟的免费咨询，在30分钟内我们一对一，面对面提供法律意见，更好的解决大家疑惑。若咨询超过30分钟，而你有意要继续咨询我们的法律意见，我们将另外安排日期给予一个更完善的咨询 （此咨询将会是收费咨询）。
请大家体谅我们人力以及时间有限，所以每个月我们只开放4个名额。
为了达到有效控制咨询的质量以及公平，还请各位严格遵守以下规则:

1. 在我们开放报名期间，有兴趣的人可以私讯提供我们，你的姓名, 电话号码，咨询领域。名额采取先到先得制。

2. 报名结束以后，我们就不再接受新的名额。我们将会通知成功报名的人咨询日期，时间以及Zoom 链接。

3. 为了公平起见，每个人只可以参与一次的免费咨询。

报名从今天开始直到9月22号的下午5点正。

谢谢！

Hello, everyone. In order to effectively helping more people in need, we have decided to open 4 slots in a month for free legal consultation via Zoom. The online consultation lasts for maximum 30 minutes. For any consultation that exceeds 30 minutes, if you intend to have further consultation, we will arrange another consultation at a later date (This consultation shall be chargeable).
As we have limited resources and time, we can only provide 4 slots in a month. And to maintain fairness and effectiveness of the consultation, please follow strictly our rules below:-

1. Registration of free legal consultation shall be opened for few days. Anyone who is interested at the legal consultation shall send us a private message on Facebook by providing your name, phone number and the area that you wish to consult us.

2. We do not accept any registration after the registration is closed. We will inform and provide those who have successfully registered the time, date and Zoom link for the consultation. Registration comes with first come first serve basis.

3. You can only have one free legal consultation session.
The registration starts from today until 22nd September 2023 by 5.00p.m.

Thank you！

14/09/2023

小海律师想分享一事： 面对诉讼文件，判决，虽然是口中的那几张纸，但是请不要无视那几张纸好吗?判决是圣旨，诉讼文件也是奏折之一。一个不小心，就会发生以下不幸之事:-

今早，小海一如往常的上班处理事务。突然，接到了一个客户的电话:”小海早啊，我这里有点事，我有个案件，上个月我得到了判决，法庭判了要我赔偿给对方，这几个星期，我开始收到律师信函要求我立即赔偿，然后也收到了对方律师申请执行判决的文件。我现在觉得我不服这个判决，我想要提出上诉可以吗?”

小海:” 这个判决是哪一个法庭给的?”

客户:” Shah Alam 的Sessions Court。”

小海:” 从今天算起，你拿到判决超过14天了吗?”

客户:” 有一个月了。应该超过30天了。”

小海:” 那为什么你现在才说?”

客户:” 我收到判决的时候，我心里很不甘心，但是我刚好那几天有点忙，所以我也忘了这件事情。但是怎么知道一直开始收到更多的律师函和申请书。我也有点束手无策，所以这才想到来问问你。”

小海:” 上诉是有期限的。由Sessions Court 上诉到High Court 是必须在得到判决起的14天里面提出申请的，超过上诉期限一概不受理。而且你因为个人因素无视判决，也无法说服法庭接受你的逾期上诉申请。”

客户:” 原来上诉是有期限的?”

小海:” 是的。你一接到判决，如果你是不服气判决的话，你当务之急是了解上诉期限并且在上诉期限内考虑是否要上诉。法庭对于上诉期限是很严格的，过了就没有重回的机会。现在，你就只能接受这个判决了。"

客户:" 我只是一时大意忽略了判决......“

小海:" 我们还是商量怎么应对执行判决申请还有赔偿的部分吧。”

08/09/2023

未婚情况下出生的孩子属于私生子。整理了几个常见的问题供大家参考！