Lai Hen Beng

Person 1 case

Lai Hen Beng appeared as a party in the following Malaysia court case:

06rj-3-04-2023b

MYFC 14 December 2023

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About Lai Hen Beng

Lai Hen Beng appears as a party in 1 judgment in the MY Case Law database, spanning December 2023 to December 2023. Lai Hen Beng appeared as appellant in 1 case. Cases span the Federal Court (1).

How many court cases involve Lai Hen Beng?

Lai Hen Beng appears in 1 published judgment from December 2023 to December 2023. Most commonly as appellant (1 cases).

Practice Areas

1 Section 498 of the Penal Code is an archaic and anachronistic provision which comes from an unfortunate bygone Victorian era when women were regarded as the personal property of men or even an extension of men not unlike how slaves were treated for a long time until abolished in the last century. 2 Section 498 is unconstitutional for the reason that it unlawfully discriminates only on the ground of gender which is violative of Article 8(2). 3 Constitutional validity deals with the objective compliance of the impugned law vis-à-vis the FC. And when it concerns pre-Merdeka law, the Judiciary is only objectively empowered to modify the law to the extent of rendering the law valid. Repeal is the last option where the only way to render the law valid would be to delete it. CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENCE: Whether Section 498 of the Penal Code is unconstitutional as it violates the fundamental principle of equality governed under Article 8(1) and (2) of the Federal Constitution? 1

Appellant (1)

06rj-3-04-2023b MYFC

LAI HEN BENG v Jabatan Peguam Negara

14 December 2023