Criminal

Bribery: Fine Imposed Instead of Imprisonment

This article shares the case of an offender who pleaded guilty to the bribery charges in Singapore under the Prevention…

5 years ago

Outrage of Modesty: Accused Acquitted

This article shares the case of the accused person allegedly charged with the offence of outrage of modesty in Singapore,;…

5 years ago

Principle of Proportionality: Criminal Offender’s Fetishism

This article shares the fundamental principle of sentencing (proportionality) of a theft offender in Singapore, where the Prosecution's appeal was…

5 years ago

Public Prosecutor v Low Ji Qing [2019] SGHC 174

"There is no society where the rule does not exist that the punishment must be proportional to the offence." -Emile…

5 years ago

Fresh Evidence on PTSD and PTSS in a Capital Criminal Offence

This article shares the latest development in this capital offence case where we have successfully persuaded the Court that Ilechukwu…

5 years ago

Statutory Criminal Offence – Section 7 of the Misuse of Drugs Act

This article shares the case of a statutory offence under the Misuses of Drugs, what is an abnormality of mind…

6 years ago

Alleged Drug Trafficker Acquitted of Capital Offence Charge

This article shares the case of our client who faced the death penalty for drug trafficking. He was convicted and…

6 years ago

The Accused Was a Mere Courier

This article shares the ambit of the acts of a mere courier as defined in the Misuse of Drugs Act,…

6 years ago

Singapore Court of Appeal Potentially Erred in Convicting the Accused

This article shares the case where the Court of Appeal agreed that there was a powerful probability that it had…

7 years ago

Can One Conspire With Another to Traffic Drugs to Oneself?

This article shares the case where we successfully argued that the Court's conviction of the appellant for the charge of…

7 years ago

Protection from Harassment Act – False Statements of Fact

This article shares the argument we submitted in Court on how the word ‘person’ under the Protection from Harassment Act…

7 years ago

Misuse of Drugs Act – Presumption of Knowledge of Nature of Drugs

This article shares the clarification by the Court of Appeal on the presumption of knowledge of drugs under section 18…

7 years ago