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 […]
Court of Appeal President Chief Justice Dato Seri Paduka Steven Chong, sitting with Justice Michael Peter Burrell and Conrad Seagroatt, recently dismissed a company’s application for revision of fines, citing the sentencing court’s leniency. The Intermediate Court on December 24 ordered Tradetech Sdn Bhd, whose director had pleaded guilty to a charge of trading infringing […]
In the first-of-its-kind hearing on Thursday, the Court of Appeal upheld the Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF) Court Martial’s decision in handing a 20-year sentence with eight whippings to a uniformed personnel on multiple charges of sodomy and sexual assault of numerous male army recruits. Mohammad Khairul Hazwan bin Haji Maidin, an RBAF Captain at […]
Fadley Faisal The High Court yesterday dismissed a Korean golfer’s appeal against his sentence for molesting a club employee. “Female employees are entitled to feel safe in their workplace… a probation order would be wholly inappropriate,” Chief Justice Dato Seri Paduka Steven Chong said. In August, the Magistrate’s Court sentenced Kang Byong-dug to seven months’ […]
Fadley Faisal The Magistrate’s Court yesterday sentenced Korean national Kang Byong-dug to seven months’ jail, with an additional month’s jail in lieu of caning, after having pleaded guilty to molesting a 45-year-old female worker at a golf club, where he is a member. A stay of execution of the sentence pending an appeal was granted […]