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It is generally accepted that it is seditious to question any of the sensitive issues. What needs to be appreciated is what is meant by ‘to question’.
SEDITION as a subject was hardly talked about until the 1970s and 80s and then receded into the background until recently, when it again started receiving a considerable measure of attention.
According to some writers on English Law, the first definite instance found of a law relating to quasi sedition offences was a provision in the First Statute of Westminster passed in the year 1275 which provided a penalty for the publishing of false news or tales “whereby discord may grow between the King and his people??? or “the great men of the realm???.
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Write comment (0 Comments) Malaysia does not have a national competition policy. Only two sectors, namely the energy sector and the communications and multimedia sector have made legal provisions for competition policy. The implementation of competition policies in these sectors are still at fairly nascent stages. In other sectors, competition regulation is mostly undertaken at the sectoral level via control over prices and entry conditions (e.g. permits and licenses). Most of these controls are subservient to socio-economic objectives other than of promoting the process of competition in markets. Due to the absence of formal competition policies in these sectors, regulators either do not recognize or often do not know how to deal with competition-related problems. The failures to address competition-related problems at the sectoral level hint at the insufficiency and inadequacy of sectoral regulatory reforms in the country. There is thus a need to consider implementing a national competition policy as a possible solution to such problems. Publication: The 1st East Asia Conference on Competition Law and Policy; March, 4 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Author: Lee, Cassey.
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The article discusses the author's view regarding the case of Datuk Jeffery Kitingan in the Malaysian Court. The author provides an expert advice in the form of an affidavit, which was requested by Harjeet Singh. The affidavit was intended to be presented as an expert opinion that the charges involving the alleged corrupt transfer of funds to bank accounts in Hong Kong by Kitingan, a Sabah Kadazan-Dusun politician and the Director of the Sabah Foundation, were indeed politically motivated. [Download]
