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Criminal law [2026] SGHC 85

SONG CHAO v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court upheld five weeks’ imprisonment for serious careless driving and reduced drink-driving imprisonment to three weeks, with a 48-month driving ban.

  • Drink driving
  • Careless driving (serious offender)
  • Sentencing frameworks and calibration
  • Disqualification from driving
  • Restitution
  • Guilty plea reductions
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Criminal law [2026] SGCA 3

NG SOON KIAT v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The Court of Appeal upheld Ng Soon Kiat’s 13-year drug-trafficking sentence, but held that his 34-month driving disqualification had to start on conviction.

  • Drug trafficking
  • Rioting
  • Drink driving
  • Disqualification of driving licence
  • Bail
  • Parity in sentencing
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Criminal procedure [2025] SGHC 135

JEREMIAH NG EN YOU (HUANG ENYOU) v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court upheld a 7-year sentence for dangerous driving causing death and 6 months for drink driving, and clarified sentencing frameworks under the Road Traffic Act.

  • Dangerous driving causing death
  • Drink driving
  • Sentencing advisory panel guidelines
  • Sentencing frameworks
  • Disqualification orders
  • Dangerous-driving-causing-death
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Criminal law [2024] SGHC 297

CHING KELVIN v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court reduced a custodial sentence for serious careless driving from four weeks to three weeks, but upheld imprisonment, a fine, and disqualification.

  • Sentencing
  • Careless driving
  • Drink driving
  • Disqualification
  • Drink-driving
  • Careless-driving
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Criminal law [2024] SGHC 294

CHAN CHOW CHUEN v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court allowed this appeal against a five-day custodial sentence for careless driving, substituting a fine and increasing the driving disqualification.

  • Careless driving
  • Drink driving
  • Sentencing bands
  • Serious offender
  • Disqualification of licence
  • Custodial threshold
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Criminal law [2024] SGHC 278

FAN LEI v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court reduced a careless driving sentence from five days’ imprisonment to an $8,000 fine, but kept the mandatory two-year disqualification period.

  • Careless driving
  • Drink driving
  • Sentencing framework for serious offenders
  • Disqualification and prohibition orders
  • Admissibility of mitigation evidence
  • Careless-driving
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Criminal law [2023] SGHC 354

LEE SHIN NAN (LI XUNNAN) v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court dismissed a repeat drink-driving appeal, upheld an eight-week jail term, a $10,000 fine and lifetime disqualification, and set out a four-stage sentencing framework.

  • Drink driving
  • Repeat offender sentencing
  • Disqualification orders
  • Enhanced penalties under s 67a
  • Special reasons for reduction of disqualification
  • Drink-driving
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Criminal law [2023] SGHC 119

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v CHENG CHANG TONG

The High Court held that the Wu Zhi Yong sentencing framework guided careless-driving sentencing under the Road Traffic Act and reduced a manifestly inadequate fine to two weeks’ imprisonment.

  • Sentencing framework
  • Careless driving
  • Dangerous driving
  • Repeat offender
  • Drink driving
  • Sentencing bands
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Criminal law [2021] SGHC 261

WU ZHI YONG v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

Appeal against sentence for drink driving and reckless driving dismissed. The court set out updated sentencing guidance and upheld concurrent sentences.

  • Drink driving
  • Reckless/dangerous driving
  • Sentencing framework
  • Serious offender provision
  • Concurrent sentencing
  • Double punishment/double counting
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Criminal law [2021] SGHC 254

M RAVEENDRAN v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court reduced a drink-driving sentence from seven days to five, but held that possible loss of SAF emoluments was not a mitigating factor.

  • Drink driving
  • Mitigating factors
  • Judicial mercy
  • Equal impact principle
  • Parsimony principle
  • Employment consequences in sentencing
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