On 3 December 2025, Malaysia’s House of Representatives (Dewan Rakyat) passed the Anti Bully Bill 2025 (‘the Bill’). The Bill aims to provide mechanisms to address complaints of bullying as well as prevention and management of bullying cases. The Bill also provides for the establishment of a Tribunal for Anti-Bully as well as to raise awareness of bullying and the prevention of bullying.
The case arose when Sri Sanjeevan, after being detained under the Prevention of Crime Act 1959 (‘the POCA’), obtained a writ of habeas corpus on grounds that his detention contravened mandatory procedural requirements. The High Court found in his favour, and he sought damages for false imprisonment, arguing that the habeas corpus order proved the wrongful nature of his detention. However, his victory in the High Court was overturned by the Court of Appeal, leading to the present Federal Court appeal.
The Chief Commissioner of Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (‘MACC’), Tan Sri Azam Baki had announced in May 2025, that the DPA mechanism to be adopted by 2026 through amendments of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 (‘the MACC Act’) which is planned to be tabled mid-2026. The intended mechanism will only be used for ‘grand corruption’ cases and not in ‘smaller amounts’ cases. Its aim is to have quick recovery of assets, reducing lengthy prosecution, and protecting innocent stakeholders.
Written by Richard Wee, Fatin Ismail, Ng Chin Yang and Lim Zhi Ying Introduction In Malaysia’s journey towards reforming the policies of mandatory death penalty and life imprisonment, two Acts, namely, the Abolition of Mandatory…
Written by Richard Wee and Fatin Ismail The new amendment for the Penal Code went through the first reading on 4 April 2023. The Bill seeks to amend the Penal Code to substitute and remove certain sections in…
Written by Richard Wee and Fatin Ismail The new amendment for the Penal Code went through the first reading on 16 March 2023 and the second reading on 29 March 2023. It was later passed…
By Richard Wee, Fatin Ismail, Faith Chow & Yashila Kesavan Introduction The much-awaited Anti-Sexual Harassment Bill 2021 (“the Bill”) was passed on 20 July 2022 by the Dewan Rakyat with three main goals in mind; to…
Written by Ashley Yip, Richard Wee & Indthu Selvamuthu This article is related to a previous article related to the Constitutional Right to legal representation if detained by authorities. Introduction It is often said that a…
Written by Richard Wee & Jacob Wong Introduction From Konami Code in 1986 to the famous GTA code and today evolving into various types of different codes that could break the overall fairness of video…
Written by Richard Wee, Wendy Ho, Ian Phua, Low May Ping and Ashley Yip Legal impact of the proposed Covid-19 Bill of Malaysia Introduction The Temporary Measures for Reducing the Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19)…
