^[1]    [2015] 5 MLJ 305.

^[2]    [1992] 2 MLJ 793.

^[3]    Sections 319-326 of the Penal Code.

^[4]    Section 375A of the Penal Code.

^[5]    Sections 349-352 of the Penal Code.

^[6]    Section 326A of the Penal Code.

^[7]    Section 2 of the Domestic Violence Act 1994.

^[8]    Section 2 of the Employment Act 1955.

^[9]    Section 2 of the Domestic Violence Act 1994.

^[10]    Cooke v Gill (1873) LR 8 CP 107.

^[11]    Lim Kean v Choo Koon [1970] 1 MLJ 158.

^[12]    Section 375A of the Penal Code.

^[13]    Section 2 of the Domestic Violence Act 1994.

^[14]    Sections 3A, 4 and 5 of the Domestic Violence Act 1994.

^[15]    Protector means (a) the director general; (b) the deputy director general; (c) a divisional director of social welfare, department of social welfare; (d) the state director of social welfare of each of the states; (e) any social welfare officer appointed under Section 8 of the Child Act 2001.

^[16]    Section 18 of the Child Act 2001.

^[17]    Section 93 of the Law Reform (Marriage & Divorce) Act 1976.

^[18]    Section 10(1) of the Domestic Violence Act 1994.

^[19]    Section 10 of the Domestic Violence Act 1994.

^[20]    Section 19 of the Domestic Violence Act 1994.

^[21]    Section 3A of the Domestic Violence Act 1994.

^[22]    Section 6(1) of the Domestic Violence Act 1994.

^[23]    Sections 76-106 of the Penal Code.

^[24]    Section 2 of the Domestic Violence Act 1994.

^[25]    Section 182 of the Penal Code.

^[26]    Section 2(g) of the Domestic Violence Act 1994.

^[27]    Section 87 of the Penal Code.

^[28]    Section 88 of the Penal Code.

^[29]    Section 89 of the Penal Code.

^[30]    Section 90 of the Penal Code.

^[31]    Sections 96 and 97 of the Penal Code.

^[32]    Section 84 of the Penal Code.

^[33]    Section 6(1)(a) of the Oaths and Affirmations Act 1949.

^[34]    Section 13 of the Oaths and Affirmations Act 1949.

^[35]    Section 14 of the Oaths and Affirmations Act 1949.

^[36]    Any statement that is false, and which the deponent either knows or believes to be false, or does not believe to be true: section 191 of the Penal Code

^[37]    Sections 191-193 of the Penal Code.

^[38]    Section 118 of the Evidence Act 1950.

^[39]    Ibid.

^[40]    Section 9 of the Evidence of Child Witness Act 2007.

^[41]    Section 4 of the Evidence of Child Witness Act 2007.

^[42]    Section 5 of the Evidence of Child Witness Act 2007.

^[43]    Section 2 of the Evidence of Child Witness Act 2007.

^[44]    Section 133A of the Evidence Act 1950.

^[45]    Section 8 of the Oaths and Affirmations Act 1949.

^[46]    Section 352A of the Penal Code.

^[47]    Sections 323 and 326A of the Penal Code.

^[48]    Sections 325 and 326A of the Penal Code.

^[49]    Section 375A of the Penal Code.

^[50]    Section 8(1) and (2) of the Domestic Violence Act 1994.

^[51]    Section 8(3) of the Domestic Violence Act 1994.

^[52]    Section 10 of the Domestic Violence Act 1994.

^[53]    Provocation and Battered Women Who Kill in England [2000] 1 MLJ xvii.

^[54]    Ibid.

^[55]    Section 88(1) of the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976.

^[56]    Section 88(2) of the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976.

^[57]    Section 88(3) of the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976.