Consider This: Mandatory Caning — A Case Study in Reform

The government is undertaking a wide-ranging review of the country’s core criminal laws, this includes the Penal Code, the Criminal Procedure Code, and the Evidence Act, as well as sentencing and punishment. One of the proposed reforms include abolishing mandatory judicial caning and reviewing the role of medical officers in the punishment. On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks with Dr Haezreena Begum Abdul Hamid, Criminologist & Senior Lecturer at Universiti Malaya’s Faculty of Law and member of the Criminal Law Reform Committee (CLRC), as well as with Dr Firdaus Aziz, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Dean for Student Affairs at UM’s Faculty of Law where his work centres on medical law and ethics, and the legal-ethical dimensions of emerging technologies.