8 April 2020
Economic hardships are being faced nationwide due to the Covid-19 outbreak and the Movement Control Order (“MCO”) implemented by the government on the 18th March 2020. Notwithstanding the PRIHATIN Rakyat Economic Stimulus Package recently announced, employers continue to urgently look for ways to cut down overhead costs and to mitigate losses much to the concern of their onlooking employees.
We have therefore prepared a list below to answer some of the most commonly asked questions that have been plaguing both employers and employees during this MCO period.
1 April 2020
Arising from the implementation of a nationwide Movement Control Order (“MCO”) announced by the Malaysian Prime Minister from 18 March 2020 to 14 April 2020 to curb the spread of global Covid-19 pandemic cases (“Covid-19”), many local and multinational businesses are adversely affected and hindered from carrying out their contractual obligations.
30 March 2020
Since the 2-week long Movement Control Order (“MCO”) came in force on 18th of March, 2020, the daily routines of many have been drastically impacted as schools and businesses have been forced to close and movement being restricted save for very limited reasons, e.g. to perform an official duty, to make a journey to and from any premises providing essential services, to purchase, supply or deliver food or daily necessities, to seek healthcare or medical services or any other special purposes permitted by the Director General.
With so much uncertainty in the air and our Prime Minister’s latest announcement that the MCO is now extended for a further two weeks until the 14th of April, 2020, where does it leave the separated or divorced parents who have joint-custody of their child or are entitled to access but are unable to exercise it because of this MCO?
These real concerns are not specific only to divorced or separated parents in Malaysia, as many co-parents in other countries are also facing the same issues. So hopefully, to help take the edge off your co-parenting concerns, here are our TOP 8 SUGGESTIONS to help divorced or separated parents to get through this confusing time.
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14 February 2019 (Malay Mail Online)
24 December 2018 (The Star Online)
11 November 2018
The book was officially launched on 8 November, 2018 and is a tribute to Dato Seri Hishamudin’s commitment to judicial independence during his 23 years on the bench.
11 August 2018 (The Malaysian Insight)
GENDER equality and sexual harassment laws, not a dress code for women, are needed to prevent workplace discrimination, said women’s rights activists, in response to a minister’s proposal for shariah-compliant wardrobe guidelines for female employees in the private sector.
29 January 2018 (BFM)
05 October 2017 (Malay Mail Online)
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 — A Malaysian mother and her twice-abducted son, who were previously barred from leaving China, were finally allowed to return home and managed to fly back yesterday just in time for a family reunion.
11 September 2017 (The Sun Daily)
PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court will hear appeals brought by parents in three separate cases if stateless children could be accorded citizenship.
This follows a decision by the Federal Court’s three-man bench today, to allow leave sought by the parents of children who were born in Malaysia but could not be granted citizenship to proceed with their appeal.
30 March 2017 (FMT News)
KUALA LUMPUR: Pro-children groups do not want young couples who engage in consensual relationships to be criminalised under the proposed Sexual Offences Against Children Bill.
According to a report in The Star, they are suggesting that couples with a small age gap between them should be spared the harsh penalties of child sexual crimes.
10 March 2017 (The Star Online)
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s new law against child sexual crimes could take effect as early as June.
But first, the Government wants to hear from all stakeholders, including the public.
At a meeting with the child sexual crimes task force on Wednesday, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said presented an outline of the proposed law.
30 January 2017 (Asia One)
KUALA LUMPUR – Former beauty queen Pauline Chai Siew Phin is claiming that the divorce petition filed against her here by tycoon Tan Sri Khoo Kay Peng is now “academic”, with an English court declaring them as being officially divorced.
In a message to The Star through her counsel New Sin Yew, Chai, 70, said: “I’m so relieved that I have a resolution to this long, four-year process. I look forward to moving on to the next chapter in life with my family.”
30 January 2017 (Straits Times)
KUALA LUMPUR – Former Miss Malaysia Pauline Chai has claimed that the divorce petition filed against her in Malaysia by tycoon Khoo Kay Peng is now “academic”, as an English court has declared them as being officially divorced, The Star reported.
13 Febuary 2016 (Malaysia Kini)
The Association of Women Lawyers welcomes the Federal Court’s decision which has reaffirmed the legal position that the civil courts retain sole jurisdiction over the dissolution of a non-Muslim marriage.
The Federal Court had clarified that upon dissolution of a civil marriage, all ancillary reliefs and consequential orders remained within the exclusive purview of the civil court, including that of custody. The Syariah Court custody order which was made in excess of jurisdiction was thus set aside.