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The Penal Code (Malay: Kanun Keseksaan) is a law that codifies most criminal offences and procedures in Malaysia. Its official long title is "An Act relating to criminal offences" [Throughout Malaysia—31 March 1976, Act A327; P.U. (B) 139/1976]. The sole jurisdiction of Parliament of Malaysia is established over criminal law in Malaysia.
Crime in Malaysia manifests in various forms, including murder, drive-by shooting, [1] drug trafficking, money laundering, fraud, black marketeering, and many others. [2] Sex trafficking in Malaysia is a significant problem. [3] [4] [5] The crime rate in Malaysia showed a decline of 11.9% in 2018 compared to the previous year. [6]
The Domestic Violence Act in Malaysia was passed in 1995. The law took over 10 years to be passed because when women's NGO pushed for the enactment, they were met with resistance from patriarchal forces of the state. [14] The Domestic Violence Act provides extensive provisions relating to protective orders (POs) which can be issued by the courts.
The Malaysian Bar (Malay: Badan Peguam Malaysia) is a professional body which regulates the profession of lawyers in peninsular Malaysia. In Malaysia, there is no distinction between a barrister and a solicitor, in that, it is a fused profession. Membership into the Bar is automatic and mandatory. [1]
"List of Law Agents – Special and General – and Advocates and Attorneys, admitted to the practice in the Straits Settlements, from the first Charter to the Prince of Wales' Island (Penang)". Cases heard and determined in Her Majesty's Supreme court of the Straits Settlements, 1808–1884. Singapore: Singapore and Straits printing office ...
Malaysia has a parallel justice system of sharia courts, which can order caning for Muslim men and women under Section 125 of the Syariah Criminal Offences (Federal Territories) Act 1997. [49] This kind of caning is rarely implemented, and is quite different from, and much less severe than, judicial caning under Malaysian criminal law.
Internal security, organized crime, preventive detention, subversion, suppression, organized violence Status: Repealed The Internal Security Act 1960 ( Malay : Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri 1960 , abbreviated ISA ) was a preventive detention law in force in Malaysia .
The Government of Malaysia has made some progress in law enforcement efforts against sex trafficking during the reporting period, and limited progress in prosecuting and convicting offenders of labour trafficking. Malaysian law prohibits all forms of human trafficking through its 2007 anti-trafficking law, which prescribes penalties that are ...