A group of young lawyers has handed to the Bar Council a petition containing 4,254 signatures over the issues of its ineffective sexual misconduct reporting mechanism and the need for minimum pay for chambering students.

A representative of the group, Goh Cia Yee handed the petition to Yusfarizal Yussoff, the chairperson of the Bar’s National Young Lawyers and Pupils Committee, at the Bar Council office in Kuala Lumpur this afternoon...