The Kuala Lumpur Bar was established
on 1st July 1992 at a general meeting of advocates & solicitors
practising in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur held under section
68(4) of the Legal Profession Act 1976.
Before that date, practitioners in Kuala Lumpur were members of the
Selangor Bar, which was later called the Selangor & Federal Territory
Bar on Kuala Lumpur becoming a Federal Territory in 1974.
Section
68(4), Legal Profession Act 1976
Members practising
in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur shall be entitled to
establish a separate bar for the Federal Territory of Kuala
Lumpur to be known as the Kuala Lumpur Bar. The decision to
have a separate bar shall be made by a majority vote of the
members present at a general meeting called for this purpose.
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