PUTRAJAYA: After a lengthy polemic among various religious bodies and authorities, it has been agreed that women can be appointed as judges in the syariah courts.
Minister in the Prime Ministers Department Datuk Abdul Hamid Zainal Abidin said this was one of the proposals included in the plan to re-structure the syariah courts.
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