In the Courts (2023): Court rules prima facie on prosecution’s case in false alarm (16.12.2023)
 Posted on : Dec 18, 2023, 11:12AM   17 total views  Category : Local News

Chief Magistrate Pengiran Hajah Norismayanti binti Pengiran Haji Ismail yesterday delivered a decisive interpretation of Section 34, Chapter 148 of the Public Order Act (POA) in a case against a local woman charged with sounding a false alarm.

 

Hajah Faizah binti Haji Abdul Gapar is charged with disseminating of a false statement likely to cause public alarm.

 

Parties focused on whether mens rea, or the mental element of a crime, extends to the knowledge of the falsity of the statement.

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-- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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