The Senate passed the Penal Code that now moves to the Chamber of Deputies for approval. The present legislation closes on 24 July 2025 and reopens on 16 August 2025.

I had to retrieve from my library my oldest book on Criminal Law if only to be able to react to this paper’s editorial last Tuesday.

A TOTAL of 46,086 cyber crime investigation papers were opened throughout 2024, involving various offences under multiple laws including the Penal Code and the Computer Crimes Act 1997.

Muhammad Hassan pleads not guilty to several charges involving the sexual assault of four minors and robbery. Muhammad Hassan ...

After a grinding five-hour session where each of the 413 articles contained in the legislative proposal were read out loud, the Senate gave a standing and unanimous approval to the reformed Penal Code ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered implementation of Allahabad High Court’s 2022 guidelines that restrain police ...

The court argued that although safeguarding individuals’ reputations is important, imprisoning someone for defamation is an ...

Malaysia is in the process of joining the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime and plans to officially sign the UN treaty this ...

A judge denied a defense motion to dismiss felony charges against three UC Davis students involved in a pro-Palestinian ...

THE bill to amend the Whistleblower Protection Act 2010 (WPA) (Act 711) which was passed in the Dewan Rakyat yesterday marks ...

The bill to amend the Whistleblower Protection Act 2010 (WPA) (Act 711), passed in the Dewan Rakyat yesterday, is a major ...

The High Court of Malawi ruling declaring unconstitutional Section 200 of the Penal Code, which criminalised defamation, has ...