{"id":7702,"date":"2018-08-07T12:08:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T12:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fol\/?p=7702"},"modified":"2019-08-09T12:11:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T12:11:17","slug":"fol-organises-two-legal-industrial-series-of-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fol\/fol-organises-two-legal-industrial-series-of-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"FOL Organises Two Legal Industrial Series of Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 27<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0July 2018, Faculty of Law (FOL) successfully organised two separate Legal Industrial Series of Talks, to impart the fruitful knowledge of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure subjects among its students and lecturers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first talk entitled \u2018Understanding The Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) And The Recent Amendments\u2019 was delivered by Datuk Baljit Singh Sidhu, a well\u2013known and experienced criminal litigation lawyer who has appeared as Lead Counsel in numerous cases at all levels of the courts in West Malaysia. He co\u2013founded Messrs. Shukor Baljit &amp; Partners, Kuala Lumpur in 1997 where he is the Managing Partner. He is also the author of the book \u201cCriminal Litigation Process\u201d and has written numerous articles in legal journals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The speaker explained about the general background of the CPC in Malaysia and some basic ideas on the interpretations of the sections and schedules in it along with the recent amendments to it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second talks was entitled \u2018Registration of Foreign Marriages and Foreign Divorces of Malaysians: Is Registration a Requirement For Validity of A Malaysian Marriage, and for Dependancy Claims?\u2019 by Mr. Balwant Singh Sidhu, a leading family law expert with Balwant Singh Sidhu &amp; Co. The talk covered on all the relevant provisions of the Law Reform (Marriages &amp; Divorce) Act 1976 (\u201cthe LRA\u201d). The speaker also discussed on cases of dependency claims which touched on the marital status of the parties, section 34 of the LRA, which provides for the legal effect of registration.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_media_grid grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1565352282362-4cab91d8-92a0-9&#8243; include=&#8221;7704,7705,7706&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text] On the 20th\u00a0and 27th\u00a0July 2018, Faculty of Law (FOL) successfully organised two separate Legal Industrial Series of Talks, to impart the fruitful knowledge of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure subjects among its students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7710,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions\/7710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmu.edu.my\/fol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}