Page 33 - Institutional Reforms News Today

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has challenged Perikatan Nasional (PN) to sue him for defamation for saying that the coalition received money from gambling – deemed haram in Islam – to bankroll its campaigning for GE15 last year.

ASEAN on July 7 recognised the importance of cooperation between the regional bloc and the Group of Seven (G7) countries in the field of law and justice, the Cambodian Ministry of Justice said on July 10. The G7 is made up of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US, along with the EU.

KUALA LUMPUR: So far, 688 citizenship applications involving children born abroad to Malaysian mothers were received by the Home Ministry, the Dewan Rakyat was told.

KUALA LUMPUR: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s statement claiming that it is unconstitutional to promote Malaysia as a multiracial country is legally groundless, says Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reforms) Ramkarpal Singh.

PETALING JAYA: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's statement denying that Malaysia is a multiracial and multireligious country has no basis and is regrettable, says Ramkarpal Singh.

Kota Kinabalu: The Federal Government will table a State Immunity Act in Parliament later this year with the aim of discouraging frivolous lawsuits against other countries from being launched here, said Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said.

KOTA KINABALU (July 4): Sabah lawyer Tengku Datuk Fuad Tengku Ahmad said Malaysia should take legal action against Spanish arbitrator Dr Gonzalo Stampa. Fuad said Malaysia should not stop at suing the self-proclaimed heirs of the Sulu sultanate for damages but also take Stampa to court. Fuad m

PETALING JAYA: Despite the abolition of mandatory death penalty coming into effect from Tuesday (July 4), death row prisoners whose sentences are pending revision would not have their cases heard so soon.

KOTA KINABALU: Malaysia should not stop at suing the self-proclaimed heirs of the Sulu sultanate for damages but also take controversial Spanish arbitrator Dr Gonzalo Stampa to court, says a Sabah lawyer.

KUALA LUMPUR: The government is looking into the possibility that some hidden American hands are behind the so-called Sulu heirs who are staking a claim on Sabah.