Vietnam will delay the release date of its 2025 Penal Code, which was scheduled to replace the 1999 Criminal Code on July 1, due to errors in the drafting process, according to a VnExpress source. No ...

President Duterte has signed the law that increases the outdated amounts in the Revised Penal Code on which fines and penalties are based, thus ensuring more proportional punishment for those who ...

MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Franklin Drilon filed a bill on Friday, March 6, to propose many amendments to the 85-year-old Revised Penal Code (RPC). Senate Bill 2680 seeks to adjust the ...

The draft Penal Code – currently under parliament’s scrutiny– among other things proposes scraping of the requirement of a court order before procuring an abortion.

MANILA, Philippines - Senate President Franklin Drilon has introduced several amendments to the 85-year-old Revised Penal Code to make it more relevant to the present situation and help address the ...

(New York) – Vietnam should immediately repeal a provision in its revised penal code that would hold lawyers criminally responsible for not reporting clients to the authorities for a number of crimes, ...

MANILA, Philippines - Congress will be asked to replace the 79-year-old Revised Penal Code (RPC) with a completely new criminal code. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said a criminal code committee ...

Mon, March 4, 2019 Published on Mar. 4, 2019 Published on 2019-03-04T10:05:37+07:00 he draft of the revised Criminal Code (KUHP) remains unfinished nearing the end of the 2014-2019 legislative term.