State in best position to solve citizenship issue
KUCHING: Sarawakian human rights activists Peter John Jaban and Bill Jugah are confident giving citizenship to stateless people born in Sarawak can be done if the the state has fully authority. Jaban said Sarawak should have control over the issuance of citizenship now that it has regained its original status as an equal partner to […]
Signing a document? Think again
KUCHING: Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP) Public Complaints Bureau (PCB) chief Wilfred Yap advised the public to be very careful when signing any document, and to understand its content before signing. He said the general legal principle is that the person signing the document is bound by its terms, regardless of whether that person has […]
Contraband beers worth RM75,000 seized
SRI AMAN: Several boxes of contraband beer worth more than RM75,000 were seized by Sarawak Marine Police during a raid at Taman Srijaya last Monday (Dec 21). A caretaker of the premises was also detained after he failed to produce any legal documents for the good. Sarawak Marine Police Regional Five commander ACP Shamsol Kassim said […]
Overview of native courts
BY NAVIN-CHANDRA NAIDU We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. – Native American proverb A close non-lawyerly examination and analysis of the Malaysian Federal Constitution (FC) will indicate that the sovereignty and exclusivity of Malaysian Native courts are found in its Article 145(3), and obliquely, in Article […]
