KUALA LUMPUR: High Court judges can now use their power to correct any technical mistakes by Sessions judges or magistrates without having to order the lower courts to hold a retrial.
This is a landmark decision by the five-man bench of the Court of Appeal as it has cleared up the confusion created six years ago when there was controversy over the burden of proof required in a criminal trial at the end of the prosecution’s case.
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