Tag Archives: Law

Establish National Sex Offender Registry Now

MCA calls for the establishment for a National Sex Offender Registry immediately. Last year, Deputy Minister Hannah Yeoh announced that the Ministry of Women, Community and Family Development has come up with a child sex offender registry which will be up and running by 1 April 2019. While this move is applauded, and such effort is certainly praiseworthy, this registry service has several major drawbacks:

Unilateral Conversion: Federal Court decision ‘overruled’ by Home Ministry?

MCA stands with the retired senior civil servants who form G25 who from the past have exhorted that the original wording of Article 12(4) ie “ibubapa” in the Perlembagaan Persekutuan be restored, for the avoidance of doubt.

Attorney-General Chambers Should Be Consistent In Prosecuting Murder Cases

As the murder charge against Viet national Doan Thi Huong has been reduced to a lower charge of causing harm using dangerous means, although paradoxically, the Attorney-General’s Chambers withdrew the identical charge from her co-accused Siti Aisyah, questions are raised as to the double standards and inconsistency practised by the AGC unto both women.

𝐀 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞’𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐮𝐤𝐢𝐭 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐧

After my exposé of a circular on instructions to hasten judicial hearings of high profile cases which has now been confirmed – I have finally earned my ticket to Bukit Aman to have my statement recorded this Friday.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐆𝐂 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞

An email circular issued by Solicitor General III Dato’ Hanafiah Zakaria to officers in the Attorney General’s Chambers (AGC) has gone viral.