Term Of Use
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
The use of and access to this website portal ("JBar Website") is strictly subject to all the terms and conditions as hereinafrer appearing ("Terms and Conditions"). Your use of and access to and/or continued use of and access to the JBar Website shall constitute your agreement to accept and comply with the Terms and Conditions.
DISCLAIMER
All information displayed on the JBar Website is strictly intended for general information and knowledge only. The information displayed herein is subject to changes and may no longer be accurate after the uploading date.
While every care has been taken by the Johore Bar Committee (which is part of the Bar Council), the Education & IT Sub-Committee and their staff (hereafter the Bar Council, the Johore Bar Committee, the Education & IT Sub-committee and their staff collectively, the "JBC") to ensure the accuracy of the information contained on the JBar Website, it remains your sole responsibility and obligation to seek independent legal advice as to the reasons for your visiting the JBar Website. It is not the intention of JBC or the JBar Website to render any legal advice or deal with queries respecting any matters or issues currently pending before any courts or subject to any form of legal proceedings whether within or without Malaysia.
Articles, reports and surveys reflect the views of the individuals that prepared them and, unless indicated expressly in the text, do not necessarily reflect or represent the position of the JBC or any of its sub-committees.
The JBC makes no representation or warranty, whether expressly or by implication. Neither is JBC responsible nor liable for any loss, damage or expense suffered or incurred by you as a result of any act or omission by you in reliance of any of the information contained on the JBar Website.
Please also note that JBC is in no position to recommend or comment on the area of practice of any lawyers or law firms notwithstanding the names of lawyers or firms may have appeared on the JBar Website. The JBC will not entertain at all any requests for recommendation of or comment on lawyers or law firms.
WARRANTIES AND INDEMNITY
By using the JBar Website, you have unconditionally warranted and undertaken to the JBC that you will not use the JBar Website or any of its contents for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by the Terms and Conditions. If you violate any of the Terms and Conditions, your permission to use and access the JBar Website automatically terminates in which case you shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless JBC from any and all claims, demands, losses, damages, costs and liabilities, including reasonable solicitors' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your acts or omissions, including claims arising out of your use of the JBar Website and your submission, posting or transmission of the contents herein or your violation of the Terms and Conditions.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
The contents of the JBar Website are protected by copyright and other applicable proprietary and intellectual property laws, and they shall remain the sole property of the Johore Bar and other relevant third parties. You must not reproduce or attempt to reproduce by any means whatsoever anything from the JBar Webite, whether wholly or partly, without the prior express consent of the JBC.
RIGHT NOT TO REPLY RESERVED
You are also to note that unless you state accurately your name, NRIC No., residential address, office address (if any), contact number and, where applicable, name of organisation and organisation's address and telephone number in your emails, we may not reply to you subject to our reservation of not responding at all to any emails originating from third party IP addresses or third party accounts such as Hotmail, Yahoo, snailmail and the like.
LINKS
While you may place a link to our main page and not to any other web pages on your website provided your site does not promote profanity, pornography or unlawful purposes and is not involved in any illegality, we do not, however, permit any deep-link to our web pages. If you wish us to have a link to your website on the JBar Website, you must first seek our prior express consent subject to our rights to charge, if necessary, a fee for such purpose.
The JBar Wesbite contains some useful links to third parties’ websites. However, this is not to be construed in any wise whatsoever as the JBC endorsing such websites or their contents. The JBC hereby repeats all the above disclaimers mutatis mutandis to your using such links to access or visit such third parties’ websites.
MEMBERS' SECTION
The members' section is restricted to those who have been granted access with a pre-approved username or password. However, such access may be revoked at any time at JBC's sole discretion without being obligated to assign any reason whatsoever for the decision. An authorised user to this restricted section of the JBar Website shall be deemed to have agreed to the following when accessing the restricted section:
- not to divulge the assigned username or password to any third party.
- not to permit or encourage any unauthorised user to access the restricted section by using the username and password assigned to him.
- to change his original password immediately upon suspecting that the secrecy of his username and/or password may have been compromised in any wise whatsoever.
LEGAL DIRECTORY
By undertaking a search on the Johore Bar members' database through the Legal Directory section, you have also agreed not to use and/or disseminate any information requested and/or received by you for any commercial purpose or for the purpose of creating a data storage base or for any other purpose except for the sole purpose of locating a particular advocate and solicitor or a legal firm.
GOVERNING LAW
The governing law for the Terms and Conditions is the law of Malaysia irrespective of your current location or jurisdiction when accessing the JBar Website. The Terms and Conditions also apply irrespective of which of the domain addresses you have accessed the JBar Website whether it is www.johorebar.org.my, www.johorbar.org.my, www.johorebar.org or www.johorbar.org.
VARIATION OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
This Agreement comprises the entire agreement between JBC and you, and supersedes all prior agreements or understandings with respect to the subject matter herein. The Terms and Conditions are subject to changes from time to time which shall take effect immediately upon the posting of the modified terms and conditions and thereafter references herein to "Terms and Conditions" shall include such modified terms and conditions. You agree to check this page every time you visit the JBar Website for any update. If any of the modified terms and conditions is unacceptable to you, you must discontinue accessing the JBar Website. Your use of and access to and/or continued use of and access to the JBar Website following the posting of such modified terms and conditions shall be deemed that you have accepted all such changes without any reservation.
Please contact the JBC if you have any queries concerning the JBar Website or the above.
