Esheria Singapore Case Law
Sign in
Singapore Source-linked decisions Coverage checked

Singapore Case Law

Search judgments by proposition, citation, court, judge or legal topic, then move directly into the source-grounded case analysis.

Courts on this page
1 court collection
Last checked

Search and filter Singapore case law

Results update automatically as you type.

Singapore decisions

Decisions matching the current search

Clear filters
Criminal law [2017] SGHC 240

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v AW TAI HOCK

Court
General Division of the High Court
Case number
HC/MA 5/2017/01

The High Court increased a dangerous-driving sentence from three to five months’ imprisonment, holding that the respondent’s deliberate five-minute chase showed high culpability.

  • Dangerous driving
  • Sentencing principles
  • Deterrence
  • Harm and culpability
  • Parity
  • Dangerous-driving
Read case analysis
Criminal law [2017] SGHC 170

KEEPING MARK JOHN v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

Court
General Division of the High Court
Case number
HC/MA 9314/2016/01

The High Court held that 12 months’ imprisonment for abetment of cheating by personation under s 419 was manifestly excessive and set a four- to six-month benchmark.

  • Abetment of cheating by personation (s 419 penal code)
  • Benchmark sentence
  • Parity
  • Manifestly excessive sentence
  • Relevance of analogous precedents
  • Sentencing
Read case analysis

About this LexChat collection

Singapore decisions are organised by court, judge, legal area and indexed issue so a practitioner can move from a proposition to a citable authority with the surrounding context intact.

Source links and collection timestamps are retained alongside the indexed records.