In a letter to the editor published Jan. 31 and titled "A legal code on guilt for priest?," the author wrote that "in the Napoleonic Code an accused person was considered guilty until proven innocent.

A group of prominent civil society members have raised objections to the proposed Penal Code amendments calling for the reduction of the age of consent, concerning statutory rape to 14 years. A ...

Brunei’s Syariah Penal Code (2013) went into effect on April 3, 2019.[1] The new code poses grave threats to fundamental human rights and discriminates against the country’s most vulnerable groups, ...

On Sunday, Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant held up the Goa civil code as the model that other states can emulate. In March 2022, the Supreme Court told the central government to respond to a public ...