by Ray Louis Law | Oct 31, 2015 | Punishment
As reported in Singapore Law Watch, in the case of Lin Lifen v Public Prosecutor [2015] SGHC 273, the accused was charged for Immigration offence. According to the report, she gave a false statement supported by the use of forged documents in the application in her...
by Ray Louis Law | Oct 24, 2015 | Criminal Process
In Public Prosecutor v Hamidah bte Awang and another [2015] SGHC 270, after trial and found guilty, the accused was liable for the death penalty. However, after being convicted, the learned Deputy produced a memorandum in which the Public Prosecutor certified that she...
by Ray Louis Law | Oct 18, 2015 | Punishment, Your Rights
As reported in the The New Paper a “hit-and-run” cyclist who in the first instance (State Court of Singapore) was sentenced to 8 weeks in jail, had his sentence reduced to 3 weeks upon appeal in the High Court. The High Court judge made the following...
by Ray Louis Law | Oct 10, 2015 | Criminal Process, Mitigation, Pleading Guilty, Punishment
The Court of Appeal of Singapore in Muhammad Ridzuan bin Mohd Ali v Attorney-General [2015] SGCA 53 considered the submissions against the decision by the Public Prosecutor not to grant the appellant, Muhammad Ridzuan bin Mohd Ali (“the Appellant”), a certificate of...
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