{"id":516,"date":"2007-08-24T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T02:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/08\/24\/born-proposal-on-switch-from-english-common-law-to-syariah-law\/"},"modified":"2007-08-24T10:35:13","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T02:35:13","slug":"born-proposal-on-switch-from-english-common-law-to-syariah-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/08\/24\/born-proposal-on-switch-from-english-common-law-to-syariah-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposal on switch from English common law to Syariah law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>What does this mean to you? How will this affect your life? Would the law be clearer or more lop-sided? <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Minister: Study proposal on switch to Syariah law thoroughly<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/8\/24\/nation\/18681665&amp;sec=nation\">source<\/a><\/div>\n<p>PUTRAJAYA: The proposal to use Syariah law to replace English common law in court proceedings should be studied thoroughly first, said Datuk Dr Abdullah Zin.&nbsp;The Minister in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Department said the move, if approved, should be done in stages.&nbsp;Lauding the proposal by Chief Justice Tun Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim, he said Syariah law gave importance to justice.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>It would also be a further development for Syariah law in the country in addition to introducing a uniform syariah law in all states, Dr Abdullah sai d yesterday.&nbsp;&#8220;We are already in the process of getting a uniform syariah law in all 14 states including the Federal Territory relating to family, administration and criminal law.&nbsp;&#8220;If there are more proposals for the development of Syariah law, they are most welcome but it should be done in stages,&#8221; he told reporters after opening the seminar on&nbsp;counselling for Muslim terminally ill patients here.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Ahmad Fairuz had said that there was no need to use English common law after 50 years of independence, suggesting another procedure as a substitute.&nbsp;He said Sections 3 and 5 of the Civil Law Act permitted judges wide discretion to import English common law, equity and statutes into the legal system to fill gaps in Malaysian laws.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail also responded positively to Ahmad Fairuz&#8217;s proposal.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>On the seminar, Dr Abdullah said the Islamic way of treating terminally ill patients was not to tell them how many &#8220;months they had left to live&#8221;.&nbsp;&#8220;The Islamic way is to give them hope and the will to continue to survive and let them depend on their own physical strength to keep them alive,&#8221; he said. &nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does this mean to you? How will this affect your life? Would the law be clearer or more lop-sided? &nbsp; &nbsp; Minister: Study proposal on switch to Syariah law thoroughly source PUTRAJAYA: The proposal to use Syariah law to replace English common law in court proceedings should be studied thoroughly first, said Datuk Dr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24,42],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-mic","tag-syariah-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}