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Tort [2026] SGHC 63

CHUA JUN YANG v KANG MAY TENG, MARIA OLIVIA

The High Court allowed an appeal in a battery claim arising from alleged sexual digital penetration, finding the evidence did not prove the assault on balance of probabilities.

  • Assault and battery
  • Digital penetration
  • Corroboration
  • Standard of proof
  • Credibility of witnesses
  • Delay in reporting
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Criminal law [2026] SGHC 51

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v Hossain Mohammad Azim

High Court conviction for aggravated sexual assault by penetration, criminal intimidation and perverting the course of justice, with complainant credibility and corroboration upheld.

  • Aggravated sexual assault by penetration
  • Criminal intimidation
  • Perverting the course of justice
  • Corroboration of complainant testimony
  • Consent
  • Medical evidence on sexual assault
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Criminal law [2026] SGHC 10

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v DCC

The High Court convicted the accused on two sexual offence charges, finding the complainant’s evidence unusually convincing, but acquitted him on one rape charge.

  • Rape
  • Sexual assault
  • Corroboration
  • Witness credibility
  • Psychiatric evidence (ptsd)
  • Sexual-assault
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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 law [2025] SGHC 242

PRITAM SINGH v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court dismissed Pritam Singh’s appeal, upholding his convictions under the PPIPA for false testimony before the Committee of Privileges.

  • Statutory offence of false testimony
  • Parliament (privileges, immunities and powers) act s31(q) and s36(1)(b)
  • Corroboration and the ‘unusually convincing’ standard
  • Impeachment of witness credit
  • Charge framing and sufficiency
  • False-testimony
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Criminal law - outrage of modesty [2025] SGHC 157

JDA v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court allowed the accused’s appeal in part, quashing three outrage-of-modesty convictions for unsafe evidence, but upheld one conviction and a 10-month sentence.

  • Unusually convincing standard
  • Corroboration
  • Presumption of innocence and burden of proof
  • Appellate intervention standard
  • Sentencing frameworks: kunasekaran and gbr
  • Abuse of trust
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Criminal law [2025] SGHC 36

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v CIC

The High Court convicted CIC of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old and sentenced him to 13.5 years’ imprisonment plus six months in lieu of caning.

  • Sexual assault
  • Corroboration
  • Lucas lie
  • Sentencing
  • Sexual-assault
  • Lucas-lie
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Criminal law [2024] SGHC 175

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v CJK

The High Court convicted the accused of rape and two counts of outrage of modesty involving a child complainant, finding her testimony unusually convincing.

  • Rape
  • Molestation
  • Consent
  • Corroboration
  • Credibility of witnesses
  • Delay in reporting
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Criminal law [2024] SGHC 75

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v CAX

The High Court acquitted the accused of 13 sexual offence charges after finding the complainant’s evidence was not unusually convincing and lacked reliable corroboration.

  • Rape
  • Aggravated sexual assault
  • Corroboration
  • Witness credibility
  • Children and young persons act
  • Statutory rape
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Criminal law [2023] SGHC 93

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v TAN CHEE BENG

The High Court held that the complainant’s evidence on four sexual offences was unusually convincing and corroborated, set aside three acquittals, and imposed a global 12-month sentence.

  • Outrage of modesty (s354(1) penal code)
  • Insulting modesty (s509 penal code)
  • Corroboration
  • Unusually convincing testimony standard
  • Adverse inference for silence
  • Abuse of position of trust
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