PROTECTION FROM HARASSMENT ACT (POHA) What the act covers Protection from harassment,doxxing, alarm or distress suffered, fear or provocation of violence, unlawful stalking and false statements of fact. Examples taken from Sec 3 Protection from...
Sec 468 Penal Code Singapore – Forgery for the Purpose of Cheating
If a person who makes any false document or electronic record with the intention to cheat, it may be a crime. Examples of this are highlighted in the Singapore Police Force Website. As reported in The Straits Times on 23 February 2018, our client was charged with...
Outrage of Modesty, Sec 354 Penal Code Singapore – How Your Lawyer May Prevent Any Charges From Being Filed Against You – Pre-mention Representations
Our client was charged by the police for an Outrage of Modesty offence under Section 354 of the Penal Code. He came to see us shortly after being charged. We got our heads down and swiftly drafted pre-mention representations to the police and Attorney General’s...
Road Traffic Offence – Sec 336, 337,338 & 304A of the Penal Code, Singapore
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...
How Your Lawyer May Prevent Any Charges From Being Filed Against You
A Case Study - Pre–Mention Representations - Sec 380 Penal Code Our client was going to be charged in court under Section 380 of the Penal Code (Cap. 224) for theft. Her family consulted us before she was going to be charged in court. We quickly went to work before...
Public Nuisance Sec 268 Penal Code
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
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...
Community Based Sentencing. Sec 182 of Penal Code
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...
Reprieve From Death Penalty
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...
The certificate that will save a drug trafficker’s life – 33B(2)(b) of the MDA
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...