'Court has discretion to waive security costs in foreign rape survivor suit'

A High Court has the discretion to waive security for cost in a civil action involving a foreigner rape survivor against her alleged attacker, according to a senior human rights lawyer.

Honey Tan Lay Ean said this today in relation to the recent dismissal of a Mongolian rape survivor’s civil suit by the High Court in Kuala Lumpur against her purported attacker, who is a police officer...