Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat says courts continue to handle remand applications, fresh charges, miscellaneous criminal applications and revision of subordinate courts’ decisions. FMTNews Court MCO
Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat says judges have been working from home and are contactable to ensure cases that require urgent attention are dealt with swiftly.
“It is unrealistic and impossible for the courts to operate in the usual way during the Covid-19 pandemic,” said the top judge. Tengku Maimun said the necessary areas under the purview of the Schedule of Prevention and Control of Infectious Disease Regulations 202, related to the function of the courts to provide the required support to the prisons and the police, which were both listed as essential services under the Regulations.
She assured the public that the court is equipped with the latest and secure online hearing tools, adding that the judiciary is ready to conduct and had indeed conducted online hearing for civil cases, with the consent of parties.
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