Even if the country's civil courts are not spared of selective prosecution, can the syariah court enforcing hudud, which provides for significantly tougher punishments, escape the same problem? <br /> <br />This is a question posed by Bar Council president Christopher Leong at a forum on 'Hudud in Malaysia: Can we? Should we?' organised by the MCA Youth legal bureau at MCA headquarters in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. <br /> <br />Leong was speaking at the second session of the forum, which also featured Malaysia Syarie Lawyers Association president Musa Awang and Bar Council constitutional committee chairperson Firdaus Husni. <br /> <br />After elaborating at length on the constitutional constraints of hudud law, Leong touched on the arguments of Umno leaders that, from a religious perspective, hudud can be suspended if the situation is not right.
