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The Laws Protecting Child Witnesses In Giving Evidence: Harmonization Between Malaysian Laws And As-sharia

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dc.contributor.authorMohamad Ismail Bin Mohamad Yunusen_US
dc.contributor.authorNik Rahim Nik Wajisen_US
dc.contributor.authorMualimin Mochammad Sahiden_US
dc.contributor.authorNurliyana Shahira Baharlien_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-28T04:21:09Z
dc.date.available2024-05-28T04:21:09Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.submitted2022-2-15
dc.descriptionVolume: 2 No: 2 (Pages:137-150)en_US
dc.description.abstractSince issues of child abuse and other crimes against children have been brought to the public's attention through the media, this article considers to highlight one of the issues relating to the protection of child. The issue of the laws protecting child witnesses in giving evidence will come into the discussion. This paper considers the issue of corroboration of the child witness in the aspects of sworn and unsworn statements to determine whether the evidence given by children will be relevant and admissible in Courts. In tackling the issues, the research methodology applied by the authors is by analyzing and evaluating the decided cases and studying the substantive laws procedure in protecting child witnesses in giving testimony in Courts. The expectation findings of this paper are to harmonize between Malaysian and Islamic law relating to the protection of child witnesses in giving evidence in the court of law. After having observed the conflicts or the problems that had stem out of the current laws and procedures governing child witnesses as to the remedies, the final part of the article proposed some solutions and recommendations from the Islamic point of view.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.25041/iplr.v2i2.2401
dc.identifier.epage150
dc.identifier.issn2745-9284
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.spage137
dc.identifier.urihttps://jurnal.fh.unila.ac.id/index.php/iplr/article/view/2401
dc.identifier.urihttps://oarep.usim.edu.my/handle/123456789/5279
dc.identifier.volume2
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherFaculty of Law, Universitas Lampungen_US
dc.relation.ispartofIndonesia Private Law Reviewen_US
dc.subjectChild Witness, Child Act 2001, Evidence of Child Witness Act 2007, Evidence Act 1950, Sexual Offences against Children 2017, Islamic Law of Evidence & Procedureen_US
dc.titleThe Laws Protecting Child Witnesses In Giving Evidence: Harmonization Between Malaysian Laws And As-shariaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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