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Criminal law [2025] SGHC 116

TOH LAM SENG v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court upheld Toh Lam Seng’s conviction for outrage of modesty and replaced five years’ corrective training with seven years’ preventive detention.

  • Outrage of modesty
  • Sexual offences against minors
  • Sentencing
  • Preventive detention
  • Corrective training
  • Persistent offenders
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Criminal law [2025] SGHC 45

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v MUHAMMAD SUFIAN BIN HUSSAIN

The High Court allowed the Prosecution’s appeal and increased the respondent’s corrective training sentence from six to nine years for a sexual offence against a seven-year-old child.

  • Sexual exploitation of a child
  • Corrective training
  • Preventive detention
  • Persistent offenders
  • Principle of escalation
  • Proportionality
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Criminal law [2023] SGHC 204

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v SOO CHEOW WEE

The High Court reduced a magistrate’s appeal sentence from 33 to 27 months after finding the offender’s substance-induced psychosis materially reduced culpability.

  • Sentencing of mentally disordered offenders
  • Substance-induced psychosis
  • Corrective training
  • Mitigation and aggravation
  • Sentencing
  • Mental-health-law
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Criminal procedure [2023] SGHC 135

OW GAN WEE v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court dismissed a sentencing appeal and upheld eight years’ preventive detention for repeated theft and drug offences, finding the term was not manifestly excessive.

  • Preventive detention
  • Persistent offenders
  • Manifestly excessive test
  • Sentencing principles
  • Mandatory aftercare scheme
  • Corrective training
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Criminal law [2016] SGHC 209

SIM YEOW KEE v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court held that corrective training and regular imprisonment are no longer qualitatively different, but CT still has a material quantitative difference.

  • Corrective training
  • Mandatory aftercare scheme (mas)
  • Conditional remission scheme (crs)
  • Preventive detention
  • Release on licence (rol)
  • Corrective-training
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Criminal law [2014] SGHC 2

Public Prosecutor v Ng Kim Hong

The High Court allowed a sentencing appeal, holding that Corrective Training was required and substituting the 48-month imprisonment sentence with 9 years’ CT.

  • Corrective training
  • Preventive detention
  • Recidivism
  • Section 304 criminal procedure code
  • Criminal breach of trust
  • Cheating
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Criminal procedure [2005] SGHC 83

Public Prosecutor v Mahat bin Salim

The High Court set aside an unlawful reformative training sentence and substituted five years’ corrective training plus the mandatory 12 strokes of caning.

  • Revision of proceedings
  • Corrective training
  • Reformative training
  • Caning
  • Sentencing principles
  • Statutory interpretation
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Criminal law [2002] SGHC 167

G Ravichander v Public Prosecutor

The High Court upheld a conviction for criminal intimidation and increased corrective training from seven to 14 years, stressing reform and the appellant’s record.

  • Corrective training
  • Sentencing length
  • Hostile witness evidence
  • Criminal intimidation (s 506 penal code)
  • Endangering life (s 336 penal code)
  • S 12(1) criminal procedure code
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Criminal law [2002] SGHC 120

Koh Thian Huat v Public Prosecutor

The High Court dismissed a criminal revision seeking to retract a guilty plea for theft, holding the plea valid and the revision an improper substitute for appeal.

  • Withdrawal of guilty plea
  • Revisionary jurisdiction
  • Mens rea
  • Finality of conviction
  • Sentencing
  • Corrective training
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