AUG 31 — I refer to your“PAS spiritual leader likens minister who broke self-isolation to Quranic ‘hero’, blames Health, Foreign Ministries for negligence”.
The judge considered that there was a valid distinction between a law so notorious, as for instance of dealing with offensive weapons and dangerous drugs and a law not so obvious as the ban against certain countries. In the former class of laws, the person charged with possessing, for example, must take the consequences of his action whether he knew the law or not. He ought to know the law.
It was Federal Court judge Chang Min Tat who was honoured with delivering the judgement of the majority, which included Chief Justice of Malaya Raja Azlan Shah, and His Lordship said as follow: