KUALA LUMPUR: The Government is agreeable to the setting up of a Sentencing Council which will be responsible in ensuring that sentences meted out by courts are streamlined, said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz.
However, the council or committee should only look at streamlining court sentences and not revisit cases to review judgments that had already been passed, he told Parliament Tuesday.
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