Managing Offenders With Mental Disorder in Brunei's Dual Criminal Procedure System: Challenges and Possible Solutions

While both legal traditions recognise impaired mental capacity as relevant to criminal liability, effective implementation is constrained by institutional fragmentation. The article proposes coordinated legislative reform, development of forensic psychiatric capacity, structured expert witness guidance, strengthened procedural safeguards, and the establishment of a national advisory framework to ensure a coherent, rights-compliant, and culturally grounded approach to mentally disordered offenders in Brunei.