MIRI: Assistance are required from all relevant stakeholders is necessary for Native Courts in Sabah to be on par with the Syariah Courts which would go a very long way to restoring the spirit of the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63).
Sabah Law Society (SLS) President Roger Chin said Native Courts and Syariah Courts are of the same status constitutionally and neither is subservient to the other.
Accordingly, the Native Courts’ jurisdiction cannot be made to exclude any cause or matter within the jurisdiction of the Syariah Courts.
“Any State laws purporting to do so could prove unconstitutional,” he said.
