Malaysia’s Federal Court Creates Tort of Harassment

Malaysia’s Federal Court introduced the tort of harassment, covering sexual harassment, into the legal system this week:

“After mulling over the matter, we arrived at a decision to undertake some judicial activism exercise and decide that it is timely to import the tort of harassment into our legal and judicial system, with sexual harassment being part of it,” the apex court bench led by Chief Judge of Malaya, Tan Sri Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin said in the judgement.

MalayMailOnline has the story.