Muhammad Shafee Abdullah

Gender

Male

Born

04/02/1952

Nationalities

Malaysia

Tax Residencies

Malaysia

Muhammad Shafee Abdullah is a Malaysian criminal lawyer notable for being hired by Malaysian government as lead prosecutor for Anwar Ibrahim second sodomy case and as Najib Razak's lead defence lawyer for Najib Razak's corruption cases

Biography

Education:
1972: Royal Military College
1977: LLB (Hons), University of Malaya
1984: LLM, London School of Economics (LSE)
2010 : LLD, University of East London (UEL)

Career:

1977 – 1981: Part-time Law Lecturer, University Malaya and University Sains Malaysia.
1977 – 1983: Deputy Public Prosecutor, Federal Counsel, Attorney-General’s Chambers, Malaysia.
1979 – 1983: Federal Counsel, Ministry of Home Affairs (ad hoc basis).
1985 – 1987: Representative Correspondent for Malaysia & Singapore for the Intellectual Property Review, IPR (Oxford).
1985 – Present: Advocate & Solicitor, Malaya (Messrs Shafee & Co).
1986 – 1989:Editorial Board of the Current Law Journal (CLJ)
1988 – Present: Ad hoc Advisor to the Malaysian Government and to the Ruling Party
2004 – 2010: Appointed by His Majesty the Yang Di Pertuan Agong as a Commission Member to SUHAKAM (Malaysian Human Rights Commission).
2006 – Present: Director, Asian Finance Bank.
2006 – 2009: Council Member to the Malaysian Bar, Member of Human Rights Committee, Bar Council, Malaysia.
2009 – Present: Board Member of the University of Malaya.
2009 – Present: Representative of Malaysia to the AICHR.

This biography is up to date until 8 April 2014

Notes

Profile picture and biography from List of Representatives for AICHR (2013-2015) (old site) and new site

*AICHR = ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights 

Subitems

• Taxman goes after Shafee over RM9.41m alleged arrears (Source)