Bar Council: 80pc of court cases handled in Bahasa Malaysia The Star | KUALA LUMPUR: Almost 80 per cent of the 13,000 lawyers in the country use Bahasa Malaysia in handling cases in court, said the Bar Council. | Its Bahasa Malaysia Committee chairman Muhammad Hasif Hassan said although the lawyers had difficulty in using Bahasa Malaysia, especially in grammar and tr...
'Lured' into crime life by movies The Star | SERDANG: The three men suspected of robbing six business outlets in Puchong in an hour-long robbery spree on June 16 admitted to getting the idea from watching Tamil movies. | They also admitted to being involved in at least 20 cases of robbery. | Selangor police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Khalid Abu...
Court rules Rajasekaran as valid MTUC sec-gen The Star | KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has ruled that G. Rajasaharan, or better known as G. Rajasekaran, is the valid Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) secretary-general for the 2008-2010 term. | In his ruling Friday, High Court (Appellate and Special P...
Bar Council: 80pc of court cases handled in Bahasa Malaysia The Star | KUALA LUMPUR: Almost 80 per cent of the 13,000 lawyers in the country use Bahasa Malaysia in handling cases in court, said the Bar Council. | Its Bahasa Malaysia Committee chairman Muhammad Hasif Hassan said although the lawyers had difficulty in u...
Sodomy II: Court stands down, Anwar unwell The Star | KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here had to delay hearing Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's application for the court to provide him with all documents pertaining to his sodomy case because the Opposition leader was feeling unwell. | Anwar left the court for...
Anwar's appeal dismissed, trial to be held at High Court The Star | PUTRAJAYA: Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will be tried in the High Court for his sodomy charge, the Court of Appeal ruled. | In a unanimous dismissal of his appeal against an order to move his case from the Sessions Court to the High C...
Case 'proceeds' without judge The Star | KUALA LUMPUR: The judge may have been away, but this did not stop the prosecution and the defence from arguing their case in the High Court here yesterday. | It was supposed to be the first day of hearing for the return of documents, tissue samples...
Illegal bark strippers jailed for 10 months The Star | KOTA KINABALU: A joint effort between Sabah police and the Forestry Department to curb the illegal harvesting of mangrove wood in the north eastern region of Sabah is paying off. | Marine police detained a vessel at Tanjung Semangat in Beluran dist...
Migrant fishermen fall through cracks in Thailand trafficking laws The News & Observer | PAILIN, Cambodia -- Don't ever accept an invitation to go fishing in Thailand. You might not come back. | Almost daily, bodies are washing ashore along the coasts of Thailand, Malaysia, Burma, Cambodia. These are unfortunate migrants, most of them ...
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Suit questions constitutionality of baselines law The Daily Tribune | By Benjamin Pulta | 04/02/2009 | A petition before the Supreme Court is challenging the constitutionality of a newly enacted law that defines the country’s territorial boundaries...
Top policeman, lawyer cleared of political plot Gulf News | Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's government cleared the police chief and attorney general yesterday of accusations that they conspired against opposition leader Anwar Ebrahim ahead of tr...
Anwar Malaysia sodomy trial moved to High Court International Herald Tribune | : Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy trial has been transferred to the High Court in a move that his lawyers have said in the past could prejudice the 62-yea...
Court to rule on Anwar's appeal today The Star | PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will know today the outcome of his appeal against a transfer order to move his sodomy trial from the Sessions Court to the High Court. | Court of Appeal Justice Abdull Hamid Embong, who sat with Justices Abu Sama...
Appellate court to hear Anwar's appeal The Star | PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal will hear Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's appeal against an order to transfer his sodomy trial from the Sessions Court to the High Court. | Court of Appeal judge Justice Abdul Hamid Embong, who sat with J...
Court to hear Anwar's sodomy trial appeal today The Star | PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal will hear Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's appeal over the transfer order of his sodomy trial from the Sessions Court to the High Court today. | Anwar's lead counsel Sulaiman Abdullah told the court that h...
Lawyer in CBT trial demands apology from judge The Star | kasturidewi@thestar.com.my | GEORGE TOWN: It was a tense moment in a Sessions Court here when a lawyer demanded an apology from the judge for allegedly describing him as "rude and unethical." | Counsel R.S.N. Rayer also said Sessions judge Rosilah ...
Judge to cane robber in court The Star | KUALA LUMPUR: In a rare court ruling, a sales promoter who admitted to armed robbery was ordered to be caned 10 times in the court premises. And the judge himself will do the caning. | Sessions Court judge Zainal Abidin Kamarudin ordered Muhammad S...
McDonald's loses exclusivity to use 'Mc' prefix The Times Of India | Text: KUALA LUMPUR: Fast food chain McDonald's on Wednesday lost its exclusivity to use the prefix "Mc" in Malaysia after the Court of Appeal here allowed a local Indian food outlet, McCurry Restaurant, to use "Mc" in its business signage. | The judges held that there was no evidence to show t...
Malaysia's Anwar sues FM for alleged defamation Gulf News | Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim filed a $28.5 million defamation suit Wednesday against the foreign minister for saying that Anwar had tried to bribe him to join his party. | Anwar's lawyer filed the lawsuit in the Kuala Lumpur High Court, seeking monetary damages and an order to prevent Foreign Minister Anifah Aman from r...