Sunday, July 22, 2012
Friday, July 13, 2012
Law Legends
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The Case Of The Stolen Smell
Ooka Tadasuke (1677-1752) was a famous Japanese samurai who also served as a magistrate of Tokyo during the Tokugawa shogunate. Ooka wa...
Thursday, July 12, 2012
News
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Farewell Sedition, Hello National Harmony!
The Sedition Act 1948 will be repealed and replaced with a new National Harmony Act. Provisions in the new Act would focus on instilling a...
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Precedent
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Avoiding Precedents
The doctrine of judicial precedent involves an application of the principle of stare decisis (to stand by the decided). In practice, this m...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Musings by Miss P
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Suing Minors For Damaged Property & Bodily Injury
This is a good question by an anonymous reader of this blog concerning whether a minor could be legally liable for causing damage to proper...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Legislation
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The Malaysian Written Law
The laws of Malaysia can be divided into two types of laws—written law and unwritten law. Written laws are laws which have been enacted in t...
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Legal Systems
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Common Law
Common law is a legal system that gives great weight to precedents (legal principles or rules decided by a judge that may apply to subseque...
