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The governmental Women’s Development Department plans to propose to Parliament to enact a law which put Malaysian men in jail when they psychologically assult their wife.
Currently Malaysian law only protect woman from physical violence.
Women’s groups told the department that husbands who “demonstrate a pattern of causing mental and psychological damage” should face counseling, [...]

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Recently, I received couple of emails stating woman has legal rights to refuse to go to the police station with male police between 6pm to 6am (I reproduce the same below).
To be frank, it was my 1st time hearing about this legal rights. Though I was not a criminal lawyer, but I have not heard [...]

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(From KL Bar’s Relevan August 2008)
Richard Wee Thiam Seng analyses the new section 28A of the Criminal Procedure Code which crystallises the right of a person under arrest to contact the person’s lawyer
How many times have you heard that on television? A scene from a criminal investigation series will flash an arrested person’s demands to [...]

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The recent debate not only confine to 1st reading of the DNA Bill in Parliament but society is also debating the motive of enacting the Bill at this point of time.
The bill only contains 27 provisions of which covering the establishment of Forensi DNA Databank Malaysia (Part II), the officers and their scope of power in [...]

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This article is contributed by Yong Ling Loong
The other day, I asked a long-time friend, Soh Toh Mai (not her real name), whether she or her husband has ever committed a crime on Malaysian soil. A little mystified, my friend of many years nonetheless obliged me with her reply. “Of course not. Why do you [...]

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