YOUR PERFECT LEGAL COMPANION
Introduction The term ‘genocide’ was first introduced by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish legal scholar, from the Greek root ‘geno’ which means race, nation, or tribe, and ‘caedere’ which means killing. Lemkin proposed to outlaw genocide in the League of Nations.…
The loss of childhood due to child marriage can have negative long-term effects on a person’s life and health. The Sustainable Development Goals and the Convention on the Rights of the Child both call for ending this destructive practice by…
RIGHT TO QUESTION THE POLICE AUTHORITY If the police is not in uniform, ask the police to show his/her authority card. Police authority card:- Red: suspended police officer. He/she has no authority to do anything to you. Walk away. Blue:…
Introduction International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) came into play in order to make the rights introduced under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) legally binding.…
Section 25 of the Malaysia’s Election Offences Act 1954 makes it compulsory for employers to give employees reasonable time off to vote in the Malaysia’s general election. Employers to allow employees reasonable period for voting 25. (1) Every employer…
“Right To Be Forgotten” The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is coming into force in the UK and the EU in May 2018. Under Article 17 of the GDPR, the “right to be forgotten” means “the right to obtain…
Many times, medical practitioners come across family members that carry the burden of having to choose on whether their loved ones should continue obtaining a certain life support treatment or if the said support should be terminated.
Recently, a Malaysian gay couple’s romantic wedding proposal video went viral online. This proposal has prompted Sepanggar Umno youth representative, Shyazreen Asri, to lodge a report to the relevant authorities to investigate and take action against them. Some of you…
Surrogacy is a process whereby a woman who is not the mother of the child (known as a surrogate) agrees to carry the child for the child’s parents where it is not medically possible for the actual mother to conceive…
Originally, abortions in Malaysia were governed by sections 312-315 of the Malaysian Penal Code which made abortions totally illegal, and was derived from the Indian Penal Code 1871. Due to its increasing need and pressures from the medical fraternity, an…
Organ donation and transplantation involve those who have consented towards donating their organs most commonly for the purposes of saving another’s life through transplantation. The National Health Service (NHS) reports between the 1st of April 2013 and 31st March 2014,…
1) It is deemed as illegal under Section 377 of the Malaysian Penal Code. 2) Any sexual connection relating to the penetration of the penis into the anus or mouth of the other person is said to have committed carnal…