Understandably, all eyes are on the forthcoming budget to be unveiled on 1 September. The government has been pursuing a pragmatic fiscal policy in recent years, with deficit budgets to stimulate the economy, in the aftermath of the 1997/98 financial crisis. What makes this fiscal policy all the more palatable is that the deficits have not only been kept within manageable limits but also been downsized gradually with a view to eventually balancing the books. Publication: MIERScan, 21 August 2006.
The paper attempts at explaining perplexing nexus between law and politics during the Mahathir years amidst swinging pendulum of legitimacy discourse - with human rights discourse on the one side and ‘developmentalism’ on the other – taking place in constrained but contested legal arena. Author: Marzuki Mohamad.
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I write this article so as to apprise the people who, in the mind of the general public, have taken the law into their own hands through the harassment of law abiding citizens of this country with the threat of using the Sedition Act 1948 on them. They should not have done it without first taking expert legal advice on the technical and difficult law of sedition under the Act.
After you have read this article, I am sure you will agree with me that the law of sedition is not easy for a layman to understand. Even lawyers and judges have found great difficulty in understanding it - let alone an uninitiated policeman. If the police are not careful, one of these days they will find themselves at the receiving end of a suit for malicious prosecution, false arrest or whatever the victims of their harassment would throw at them.
I hope you will bear with me if this time I am not able to explain difficult law in simple language as much as I would like to. It is at a time like this that I really appreciate the great ability of the late Lord Denning who was so adept at explaining difficult law to us ordinary folk.
Malaysia does not have specific legislation regulating competition as yet. Except for provisions on general competition practices fo the communications and multimedia industry, there is no comprehensive regime governing competition. There are a number of related trading and consumer statutes which impact on competition and there are statutes which attempt to introduce the concept of competition and the term “competition??? is used in these statutes. In relation to the acquisition of mergers and takeovers, there are guidelines and a code which apply but these also do not address competition issues. This paper seeks to briefly survey these laws and concludes with some observations. Author: Cheong May Fong.
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