The course on “Section 302 of the Penal Code 1/2024” was held at Sama-Sama Hotel, KLIA on 24th July 2024. The objective of this course was towards a better understanding of Section 302 of the Penal Code.

A total number of 32 participants attended the course, consisting of three High Court Judges, and 29 Judicial Commissioners. The course began with an opening remarks delivered by The Honourable Dato’ Sri Hasnah binti Dato’ Mohammed Hashim, the Federal Court Judge cum the Chairman of the Training Committee, Judicial Academy of Malaysia. The facilitator of this course were six Federal Court Judges The Honourable Dato’ Sri Hasnah binti Dato’ Mohammed Hashim also acted as a facilitator in this course in addition to four other facilitators consisting of Federal Court Judges namely the Honourable Dato’ Nordin bin Hassan, the Honourable Dato’ Abu Bakar bin Jais, the Honourable Datuk Abdul Karim bin Abdul Jalil and the Honourable Datuk Vazeer Alam bin Mydin Meera.

The participants were divided into four groups of eight people per group. Each group was required to discuss specific topics related to this course and then presented the results of the discussion. The topics of the discussion are “The Offence of Murder and the Offence of Culpable Homicide Not Amounting to Murder Under the Penal Code – Concept and Elements of The Offences”, “Distinguishing Features and Application of Sections 34 and 149 of the Penal Code”, “The Defence of Insanity Under Section 84 of the Penal Code” and “Treatment of Expert and Corroborative Evidence”