By Muhammad Wafiuddin bin Azizi & Mohd Sharen Azli Alzalip The prolonged vacancy in Malaysia’s top judicial posts following Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat’s retirement on July 2, 2025, ignited a national controversy over judicial independence. With 31 judicial positions vacant and weeks of unexplained delays, the Malaysian Bar Read more…
By IIUM Legal Aid Club “No one’s left behind.” The wealthy often have the privilege of shaping their destiny, sometimes even appearing innocent despite being in the wrong. In contrast, the poor are too often forced to accept whatever fate is imposed upon them, branded as wrongdoers despite their innocence. Read more…
Author: Umy Marshita Binti Mohamed AzharEmail: umymarshita@gmail.com ABSTRACTThere exists a global concern over corruption in the status quo. To measure the perception of corruption in each country, the organisation Transparency International has come up with the Corruption Perceptions Index to score and rank countries as a method of determining which Read more…
By Nur Aishah Camelia Wong binti Norman Wong Time and time again, we hear people questioning the position of vernacular schools in Malaysia. Just last year, Pertubuhan Ikatan Guru-guru Muslim Malaysia (iGuru) submitted a petition aiming to declare that Chinese and Tamil primary schools were unconstitutional. Not only that, recently in Read more…
By Hadifah Husna The protection of intellectual property rights is challenged as the development of technologies has opened up various platforms for creations, distributions and exploitation of copyright works which also include the peer-to-peer (P2P) software. The widespread use of P2P software became widely known at the end of 1990s through the first P2P network, Napster which enabled the Internet users Read more…
by Muhammad Aiman Firdaus bin Kamal Nor Azman Once the closing pendulum of a general election has been officially announced by the Election Commission, all eyes in this multi-racial stratification country are going to be carefully waiting and observing who shall be appointed as the Prime Minister of Malaysia by Read more…