Inexperienced magistrates, unprepared lawyers hold court at Bar seminar

comments     Arfaeza A Aziz     Published     Updated

The judiciary has failed to translate their contempt against police abuse in action when meting out inadequate sentence for their abusive actions against detainees, said a lawyer.

Edmund Bon in his paper entitle the "Cop-Land" states that the court has failed to adequately consider the victim's pain and suffering and the particular circumstances surrounding the incident which led to detainees being subjected to abusive treatment by the police.

"The judiciary which endorses the oft-said and commonsensical approach that the police cannot be allowed to beat people, had failed to translate that into action and offer a more exacting punishment than was meted out.

"Here the rights of a human being lost out to state abuse and the judiciary failed to sufficiently check it. The state police trumped," he said at the Bar Council's seminar o­n "Police Powers and Rights of Detainees" in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

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