Allan (not his real name) sought our advice on a criminal matter. He was facing one charge under Section 338 (b) of the Penal Code for causing grievous hurt by an act which endangers life or the personal safety of others. The charge entailed, amongst others, the...
If you create nuisance in public you may be guilty of an offence. According to Sec 268 of the Penal Code: "A person is guilty of a public nuisance, who does any act, or is guilty of an illegal omission, which causes any common injury, danger or annoyance to the...
Assault Sec 323 Penal Code. Community-Based Sentencing - Short Detention Order. Mitigation from Criminal Lawyer Singapore. As reported in The Straits Times on 30 June 2016, our client was charged with assault under Sec 323 of the Penal Code. The victim had suffered a...
Our client recently was charged under Sec 182 of the Penal Code as reported in The Straits Times on 11 January 2017. She lied about being raped to cover up the casual sex she had with someone she met just hours earlier. She had told police last May that six men were...
The Court of Appeal in BMD v Public Prosecutor [2015] SGCA 70 stated that "It is trite that where no other evidence is available, a complainant’s testimony can constitute proof beyond reasonable doubt – but only when it is so “unusually convincing” as to overcome any...
The case Public Prosecutor v Sutherson, Sujay Solomon [2015] SGHC 292, as reported in Singapore Law Watch. How tragic. A culpable homicide case. The deceased was the mother of the accused. Key witnesses were family members. The concluding words of the Learned Judge...
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...
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...
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 observations...
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...