Law as Part of Our Life

Law is an important because it plays a huge role in our life in shaping the way we conduct and execute our actions and allows the nation to function in an orderly manner. The non-existence of it will clearly demonstrate a poor and aimless individual, group, organisation and nation. The composition of law derived from the Parliament and the judges has said confirmed provides a framework for interaction. The law applies in all places which leaves no space to be questionable. Defamation in this current era has far reached people in so many ways via emails, social media, and verbal communication and so on. The channel that’s being used or abused has allowed a wider range of audience to actually witness defamation cases going on. Some of the defamation articles that i will talk about are workplace, racial discrimination, social media, character and educational defamation.

In Malaysia, the number of cases falling under the defamation umbrella is quite a number and that includes from all categories as mentioned previously. This makes it more interesting for me to do more research on defamation as I would be able to surf around for information that could suffice my upcoming articles to be posted. The process of defamation that is being taken into execution by the Malaysian Law is no different from other country as well. Every small action an individual decides to take or act upon will have its consequences if it is done against good will. The current generation of young adults, teenagers has poor awareness on the major consequences that defamation charges could bring about for their actions conducted. Their inconsiderate ad hurtful speech, action and gestures has led to social discrimination regardless if its students or adults. There are some unheard voices from victims who are unaware that they are facing or going through defamation due to lack of knowledge on law that’s in place to protect them. Though aware of the situation, some remain to suppress and be silent fearing that it jeopardizes their current state.

The current law and educational system need to be reinforced and revisited to better ensure the visibility of the law strength among our nations. Some of the suggestions I could propose are :-

a)      Revisiting the education syllabus to include or add on law as a mandatory subject

b)      Organizing talk for all age group on the awareness of defamation law (school, colleges/universities, working world

c)       Mandatory compliance training (online/face-to-face)

d)      Gain the nations trust to believe the law will stand by them – no biasness