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Criminal law [2026] SGHC 47

LIM OON KUIN v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court upheld Lim Oon Kuin’s convictions for cheating and forgery-related offences, but reduced his aggregate sentence to 13 years and 6 months.

  • Cheating
  • Forgery for the purpose of cheating
  • Judicial mercy
  • Evidence and witness credibility
  • Delivery by bank credit
  • Disclosure/summary of facts (psof)
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Criminal law [2024] SGHC 73

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v Mark Kalaivanan s/o Tamilarasan

The High Court convicted Mark Kalaivanan of four offences including aggravated sexual assault and imposed 18 years’ preventive detention and 12 strokes of the cane.

  • Aggravated sexual assault by penetration
  • House-trespass to commit sexual offence
  • Outrage of modesty
  • Personating a public officer
  • Preventive detention
  • Evidence: corroboration and demeanour
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Criminal law [2023] SGHC 296

KANDASAMY SENAPATHI v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court dismissed a sentencing appeal involving criminal breach of trust and CDSA offences, upholding a five-year-and-12-month aggregate sentence.

  • Criminal breach of trust
  • Removing benefits from jurisdiction
  • Amalgamation under s124 cpc
  • Sentencing frameworks (huang ying-chun, ho man yuk)
  • Criminal-breach-of-trust
  • Cdsa
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Criminal law [2023] SGHC 79

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v Yap Pow Foo

The High Court sentenced Yap Pow Foo to 17 years’ imprisonment and 16 strokes of the cane for rape and house-breaking by night, ordering consecutive terms.

  • Sentencing
  • Mitigation
  • Rape (s 375 penal code)
  • House-breaking by night (s 457 penal code)
  • Caning
  • Totality principle
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Criminal law [2022] SGHC 217

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v Mahadi Bin Muhamad Mukhtar

The High Court sentenced an auxiliary police officer who carried a loaded revolver and committed robbery to 16 years and 6 months’ imprisonment and 18 strokes of the cane.

  • Unlawful possession of firearm
  • Unlawful possession of ammunition
  • Robbery
  • Sentencing
  • Caning
  • Consecutive sentences
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Criminal law [2022] SGHC 70

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v JUANDI BIN PUNGOT

The High Court sentenced Juandi bin Pungot to 29 years' imprisonment for a long-running, syndicated gas-oil misappropriation and related corruption and money-laundering offences.

  • Criminal misappropriation
  • Conspiracy to commit criminal breach of trust
  • Conversion and disposal of criminal proceeds
  • Corrupt gratification of surveyors
  • Sentencing principles and discounts
  • Totality principle
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Criminal law [2021] SGCA 88

RAJ KUMAR S/O BRISA BESNATH v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The Court of Appeal dismissed a criminal motion seeking seven questions on entrustment and possession under s 405 Penal Code, holding they were settled, factual, or hypothetical.

  • Entrustment
  • Possession (actual/constructive/possessory)
  • Criminal breach of trust s405 penal code
  • Criminal references under s397 cpc
  • Requirements for leave (gck)
  • Criminal-breach-of-trust
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Criminal law [2020] SGCA 91

KREETHARAN S/O KATHIRESON v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The Court of Appeal dismissed applications to reopen criminal appeals and seek a criminal reference, holding they were abuse of process and raised no qualifying new material.

  • Conspiracy to cheat (s420 read with s109 penal code)
  • Review of appellate decisions (s394h–s394j cpc)
  • Criminal reference (s397 cpc)
  • Abuse of process and back-door appeals
  • Sentencing discount and plea mitigation
  • Standards for new evidence in review
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Criminal law [2019] SGCA 02

HO MAN YUK v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The Court of Appeal held that dishonest misappropriation under s 403 of the Penal Code does not require innocent or neutral initial possession.

  • Dishonest misappropriation (s403)
  • Innocent possession
  • Mens rea timing
  • Interpretation act s9a purposive approach
  • Rectifying construction
  • Strict construction rule
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Criminal law [2018] SGHC 220

NUR JIHAD BIN ROSLI v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court held that inserting a bamboo pole into a dwelling to steal items can amount to “entering” under s 442 Penal Code, and dismissed the appeal.

  • House-trespass
  • House-breaking
  • Theft
  • Purposive statutory interpretation
  • Use of instruments as extension of body
  • Interpretation act s9a
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