{"id":56063,"date":"2019-12-23T16:11:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T08:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56063"},"modified":"2019-12-23T16:27:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T08:27:38","slug":"msia-studying-practices-in-other-commonwealth-countries-before-setting-up-law-reform-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56063","title":{"rendered":"M&#8217;sia studying practices in other Commonwealth countries before setting up Law Reform Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>By Shakir Husain<br><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW DELHI, Dec 23 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Malaysia is studying the practices of Commonwealth countries before setting up an independent law commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Department Mohamed Hanipa Maidin said India is one of the countries with vast experience in developing law institutions and Malaysia is keen to benefit from its experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As Commonwealth countries, we share many similarities in our government institutions. We hope to gain from the expertise of countries such as New Zealand, Australia and India in setting up Malaysia&#8217;s Law Reform Commission,&#8221; Mohamed Hanipa told Bernama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deputy minister is in New Delhi to meet officials from government legal agencies to learn how the Law Commission of India functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are doing a lot of things to improve our democracy. We want a specialised commission to review the laws that need revision,&#8221; Mohamed Hanipa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has engaged with the Bar Council of Malaysia, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other stakeholders to seek their ideas, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the government completes the necessary studies, a bill will be drafted to set up the commission, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shakir Husain NEW DELHI, Dec 23 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Malaysia is studying the practices of Commonwealth countries before setting up an independent law commission. Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Department Mohamed Hanipa Maidin said India is one of the countries with vast experience in developing law institutions and Malaysia is keen to benefit from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":56067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56063"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}