The government is undertaking a wide-ranging review of the country’s core criminal laws.
This includes the Penal Code, the Criminal Procedure Code and the Evidence Act, as well as sentencing and punishment.
One of the proposed reforms include abolishing mandatory judicial caning and reviewing the role of medical officers in the punishment.
Astro Awani’s Melisa Idris speaks with Dr Haezreena Begum Abdul Hamid, a criminologist and senior lecturer at the University of Malaya’s Faculty of Law and member of the Criminal Law Reform Committee.
Melisa also talks to Dr Firdaus Aziz, a senior lecturer and deputy dean for student affairs at the same law faculty, where his work centres on medical law and ethics, and the legal-ethical dimensions of emerging technologies.
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