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Podcast: Consider This
Episode: Consider This: Institutional Reform - Rethinking Attorney-General's Dual Role
Description: Law and Institutional Reform minister Azalina Othman Said recently announced the Government will finalise the separation of powers between the Attorney-General and the Public Prosecutor, after performing a thorough empirical study within a year. What needs to be in place for the separation of these two roles to occur, and what should a future Office of the Public Prosecutor look like? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks to Aira Azhari, Senior Manager of the Democracy & Governance Unit for the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS Malaysia) and lawyer New Sin Yew.