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Criminal law [2022] SGHC 175

SAW BENG CHONG v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court upheld a 13-month sentence for voluntarily causing grievous hurt after an unprovoked assault causing multiple fractures to a taxi driver.

  • Voluntarily causing grievous hurt (s 325 penal code)
  • Sentencing framework from public prosecutor v bdb
  • Aggravating and mitigating factors
  • Assault on public transport worker
  • Voluntarily-causing-grievous-hurt
  • Sentencing
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Criminal law [2016] SGHC 284

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v SUMANTHIRAN S/O SELVARAJOO

High Court sentencing decision imposing 16 years’ imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane for culpable homicide, grievous hurt and hurt offences.

  • Culpable homicide not amounting to murder
  • Grievous hurt
  • Hurt
  • Caning
  • Mitigation
  • Diminished responsibility
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Criminal law [2013] SGHC 125

S Gopikrishnan v Public Prosecutor

Appeal against conviction for causing grievous hurt was dismissed, but the High Court reduced the prison term from eight months to two weeks.

  • Grievous hurt (s 325 penal code)
  • Sentence reduction
  • Evidence and credibility
  • Medical evidence on injury
  • Criminal-law
  • Sentencing
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