National tribunals

Courts in Myanmar ‘unequipped’ to administer justice, says report

A new report has delivered a damning indictment of Myanmar’s judicial system, detailing judges sleeping through during testimony, defendants coerced into pleading guilty and most cases going to trial before legal counsel was organised for the accused. The report, published this month by the London-based legal support group Justice Base, was the culmination of more than […]
By Sean Gleeson, Frontier
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