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Yong Vui Kong v. Public Prosecutor was a seminal case decided in 2010 by the Court of Appeal of Singapore which, in response to a challenge by Yong Vui Kong, a convicted drug smuggler, held that the mandatory death penalty imposed by the Misuse of Drugs Act (Cap. 185, 2001 Rev. Ed.) ("MDA") for certain drug trafficking offences does not infringe Articles 9(1) and 12(1) of the Constitution of ...
Following Fay's sentence, the case received coverage by the American, Singaporean and international media. [10]Some US news outlets launched scathing attacks on Singapore's judicial system for what they considered an "archaic punishment", while others turned the issue into one of Singapore asserting "Asian values" towards "western decadence". [11]
2 December 2024: The case of a 30-year-old woman found dead in a flat along Dover Road was classified as murder by the Singapore police. A 34-year-old man, suspected of being involved in the murder, left Singapore prior to the police receiving a call for assistance. The suspect and the victim were known to each other.
25-year-old Muhammad Khairulanwar bin Rohmat, a final-year student from Singapore Institute of Management, was convicted under the Prevention of Human Trafficking Act and sentenced to a total of 6 years and 3 months' imprisonment and fined $30,000 for recruiting two underage girls between 15 and 16 years of age for sexual exploitation and lure ...
The Academy has also republished cases decided since Singapore's full independence in 1965 that appeared in the MLJ in special volumes of the SLR, and is currently working on a reissue of this body of case law. Cases published in the SLR as well as unreported judgments of the Supreme Court and Subordinate Courts are available on-line from a fee ...
2 June: 42-year-old lawyer David Rasif fled Singapore with S$11.3 million of his clients' money and remains at large. The Commercial Affairs Department has recovered S$7.4 million in cash and gold bars from bank accounts in Singapore, Hong Kong and Vietnam. Rasif's accomplices (property agent Goh Chong Liang and lawyer David Tan Hock Boon) were ...
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In May 2024, Law Minister K Shanmugam, who touched on the topic of the death penalty during a parliamentary session, stated that the death penalty remains part of Singapore's war on drugs to deter drug trafficking and decrease the rate of drug consumption. The case of Gabriel Lien Goh was cited as a high-profile cases involving drugs. [25]