According to an official circular posted on its website, the EGM will be held at a Kuala Lumpur hotel next Friday.
The
agenda is to discuss a motion proposed by Bar Council chairperson Lim
Chee Wee “in relation to the events of and surrounding the public rally
on 28 April 2012 organised by Bersih 3.0, and matters in connection
therewith”.No further detail is provided in the circular, though it is believed that the Bar will move for consensus to act on the findings of an observer team it deployed during the rally.
The EGM needs a quorum of 500 for the motion to be discussed and passed.
The Bar had deployed a 78-member monitoring team during the rally and subsequently released an interim report on Tuesday.
The report
said police brutality against protesters during Bersih 3.0 had worsened
despite several police shortcomings that were highlighted during the
last Bersih rally.Lim had also announced that the Bar was mulling the gathering of volunteer lawyers to file civil suits on behalf of victims of violence during the rally.
“We will talk to our members… if we can gather enough members of the Bar to volunteer to interview all the victims of human rights violations and probably pursue civil suits,” he said.
Among the complaints to be raised by the Bar Council is that at least one of its observers was beaten up by police and its legal aid team was denied access to the protesters detained at Pulapol after the pro-electoral reform rally.
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