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Criminal law [2025] SGHC 264

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v KOH LEE HWA

The High Court convicted Koh Lee Hwa of outrage of modesty, rape, and sexual assault by penetration, rejecting his consent defence and imposing 12 years and three weeks' imprisonment plus 13 strokes.

  • Rape
  • Sexual assault by penetration
  • Outrage of modesty
  • Consent
  • Corroboration
  • Sentencing frameworks
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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 265

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v Raj Kumar S/O Bala

The High Court convicted the accused of outrage of modesty and rape, accepted the complainant’s account as credible and corroborated, and imposed a global sentence of 13 years and 4 weeks’ imprisonment plus nine strokes.

  • Rape
  • Outrage of modesty
  • Harbouring
  • Consent
  • Voluntariness of statements (vri)
  • Credibility assessment
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Criminal law [2024] SGHC 91

WONG POON KAY v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court dismissed Wong Poon Kay’s appeal against a 24-month sentence for directors’ duty breaches and conspiracy to receive stolen property.

  • Complicity and abetment
  • Criminal conspiracy
  • Receiving stolen property
  • Directors' duties
  • Delay in investigation and prosecution
  • Sentencing frameworks
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Criminal law [2022] SGHC 157

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v MANTA EQUIPMENT (S) PTE LTD

The High Court revised the sentencing framework for a body corporate’s breach of s 12(1) of Singapore’s Workplace Safety and Health Act and increased the fine to $250,000.

  • Statutory offences
  • Sentencing frameworks
  • Benchmark sentences
  • Prospective overruling
  • Workplace-safety-and-health-act
  • Sentencing-frameworks
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Criminal procedure and sentencing [2019] SGCA 64

BPH v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The Court of Appeal held that the Pram Nair sentencing framework applies to all forms of sexual assault by penetration under s 376 and dismissed both sentence appeals.

  • Sentencing
  • Sexual assault by penetration
  • Sentencing frameworks
  • Abuse of trust
  • Aggravating and mitigating factors
  • Totality principle
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Criminal procedure [2019] SGCA 16

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v ASR

Singapore Court of Appeal upheld reformative training for a 14-year-old offender with intellectual disability, holding s 83 Penal Code applies only to chronological age.

  • Intellectually disabled offenders
  • Young offenders
  • Reformative training
  • Section 83 penal code
  • Proportionality and totality
  • Caning
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Criminal law [2018] SGHC 151

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v LAI TECK GUAN

High Court sentencing appeal on repeat drug offences. The court rejected a direct Vasentha uplift for recidivists and adjusted the aggregate sentence to 16 years 9 months and 17 strokes.

  • Drug trafficking
  • Possession
  • Consumption (lt2)
  • Benchmark sentences
  • Repeat offenders
  • Totality principle
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