Datuk Dr. Baljit Singh Sidhu
Senior Partner
Email: baljit@shukorbaljit.com
Datuk Dr. Baljit Singh is versatile in his practice of law. His main passion and expertise lie in criminal litigation. Datuk Dr. Baljit has appeared in courts as defence counsel for a whole gamut of cases.
Qualifications
- LL.B (Hons), University of London
- CLP, Qualifying Board Malaysia
- Advocate & Solicitor
- LL.M, University of Malaya
- DSLP, International Islamic University Malaysia
- PhD, International Islamic University Malaysia
Practice Areas
- Anti-Money Laundering
- Blue/White Collar Crimes
- Criminal Advisory Work
- Corruption
- Drug Offences
- Environmental
- Firearms
- Human Trafficking
- Immigration
- Kidnapping
- Offences for Capital Punishment
- Security Laws and Preventive Detention
- Securities and Money Markets
- Statutory Offences
- Terrorism
Notable Experience
- Member of the Criminal Committee Bar Council (1997–Current)
- A Representative of the Bar Council to render views to the Parliamentary Select Committee on the amendment to the provisions of the Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code (2005)
- Appointed as Commissioner of Oaths (2006–Current)
- Awarded Darjah Mulia Seri Melaka – Datuk (DMSM) (12th October 2008)
- Chairman of the Criminal Practice Committee Kuala Lumpur (2010–2012)
- Deputy Chairman of the Bar Council Criminal Committee (National) (2010–2012)
- Secretary of Kuala Lumpur Bar Committee (2011–2012)
- Deputy Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Committee on AMLA (Bar Council) (2011–2012)
- Admitted to the Supreme Court of Brunei Darussalam (February 2012)
- Appointed as Notary Public (2012–Current)
- Conferred Honorary police rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) by the Royal Malaysian Police (2012)
- Appointed Adjunct Professor, Law Faculty – Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu (2013–Current)
- Appointed Adjunct Professor, Law Faculty – Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (2015–Current)
- Deputy President of Sports Law Association of Malaysia (2018)
- President of Sports Law Association of Malaysia (2019)
- Chairperson of Disciplinary Committee, Football Association of Malaysia [FAM] (2018–Current)
- Advisory Panel to Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission [MACC] (2016–Current)