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Saturday, April 11, 2015

Quick justice for street crime victims

Courts to take the fast track, guilty pleas to be dealt with within three days.

street crimePUTRAJAYA: The courts will fast-track and dispose of street crime cases within three days for those accused who had pleaded guilty and two weeks for the cases to be tried.
Chief Justice Tun Arifin Zakaria said such cases would have take one to three months before.
The judiciary had held discussions with the Attorney-General’s Chambers to issue a practice direction for fast-track disposal of street crime cases to all Session Court judges and magistrates who were handling the cases, he said.
“Among the street crime cases are snatch thefts and robbery. Even though these cases are swiftly disposed of, the accused have the right to be represented by a lawyer of his or her choice, subject to the Federal Constitution,” he said in a speech at the oath-taking ceremony for five judicial commissioners at the Palace of Justice yesterday.
Arifin said the lawyers appointed should be prepared to continue handling the cases as scheduled. If the lawyers could not attend the trial fixed, the accused were allowed to consult other lawyers from the National Legal Aid Foundation.
He said police statistics showed that 19,299 street crime cases were reported last year, and that 80 per cent of the accused had pleaded guilty to the offences.
– BERNAMA

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