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The Bar Council is seeking government funding for its legal aid program which handled 18,000 cases last year involving RM100 million in waived legal fees. Bar Council president Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan said they are in talks with the de facto Law Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz to establish a scheme where the government would help fund the program in exchange for the Bar Council continuing to provide legal expertise through its network of over 700 volunteer lawyers. Sreenevasan said it is the gove

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