PUTRAJAYA, June 11 — Attorney General Tommy Thomas has indicated his intention to scrap the Anti-Fake News Act 2018, the Bar Council said today.

Its president George Varughese said other controversial laws were also discussed during a closed meeting at the Attorney General Chambers, here, including the Sedition Act, the Prevention of Crime Act (POCA), and the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act (Sosma) 2012.

“As part of our proposal for law reform, we had suggested for these laws to be completely repealed or abolished.

“I believe he [Thomas] is agreeable. He did indicate the Anti-Fake News Act will definitely be repealed. But we haven’t gone through the details of other Acts,” George told the members of the media.

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Varughese said the council had also discussed with Thomas its proposed law reforms, which included reviewing and abolishing existing acts.

He said the council had forwarded 55 proposals involving institutional and law reforms.

“The AG had asked the Bar Council to play a leading role in this reform agenda. Aside from law reform, we also suggested that there should be a holistic reform of the Legal Profession Act and he was very supportive.

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“Now he has requested us to submit our proposal on how to revamp the legal profession,” he said.

Varughese said Thomas was also looking forward to forging closer ties between the Chambers and the Bar, which includes the sharing of knowledge and etiquette rules.