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The Supreme Court of Singapore is a set of courts in Singapore, comprising the Court of Appeal and the High Court.It hears both civil and criminal matters. The Court of Appeal hears both civil and criminal appeals from the High Court.
The Court of Appeal is Singapore's highest court, and thus its court of final appeal.Its earliest predecessor was the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements which, following legal changes introduced in 1873, [2] had jurisdiction to sit as a Full Court of Appeal with not less than three judges and as a Divisional Court at each settlement.
Jury trials were abolished in 1969 and the Criminal Procedure Code was amended in 1992 to allow for trials of capital offences to be heard before a single judge. [1] The Court of Appeal is Singapore's final court of appeal after the right of appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London was abolished in April 1994.
The Supreme Court Building, designed by Foster and Partners, which commenced operations on 20 June 2005 – photographed in August 2006. The judicial officers of the Republic of Singapore work in the Supreme Court and the State Courts (known up to 6 March 2014 as the Subordinate Courts) to hear and determine disputes between litigants in civil cases and, in criminal matters, to determine the ...
Judith Evelyn Jyothi Prakash (née de Cruz; born 19 December 1951) is a Singaporean judge in the Supreme Court.Her brother is ambassador Simon Tensing de Cruz. [1] Prakash was appointed a permanent Judge of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of Singapore on 1 August 2016, the first woman to hold this post. [2]
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 ...
The Supreme Court of Singapore is the nation's superior court of record. [16] It is superior in the sense that its jurisdiction to hear civil and criminal cases is unlimited compared to the Subordinate Courts of Singapore, and it hears appeals from lower courts.
He is one of the leading authorities in contract law in Singapore and the Commonwealth. He was appointed vice-president of the Court of Appeal with effect from 28 September 2017 following his predecessor Chao Hick Tin's retirement. Phang retired as a Justice of the Court of Appeal on his 65th birthday on 15 December 2022.