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The State Courts of Singapore (formerly the Subordinate Courts) [1] is one of the three categories of courts in Singapore, the other categories being the Supreme Court and Family Justice Courts. The State Courts comprise the District and Magistrate Courts—both of which oversee civil and criminal matters—as well as specialised courts such as ...
The State Courts Building, also known as The Octagon and formerly as the Subordinate Courts Building, is a courthouse on Upper Cross Street in Singapore. Completed in 1975, the building housed the State Courts of Singapore (formerly the Subordinates Courts of Singapore) until 2019, when the courts moved into the State Courts Towers .
Under the Constitution of Singapore, the judicial system of Singapore is divided into the Supreme Court which comprises the Court of Appeal and the High Court, and the subordinate courts, namely the State Courts and Family Justice Courts. Singapore practices the common law legal system, where the decisions of higher courts constitute binding ...
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.
A judge is generally not bound by previous decisions made by other judges in courts of the same level. Thus, a judge hearing a High Court case need not follow previous High Court decisions. Nonetheless, courts generally do so as a matter of comity, unless there are good reasons for doing otherwise. As the final appellate court in Singapore, the ...
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.
This new structure was officialised with effect from 16 March 1964 through the Courts of Judicature Act 1964 (M'sia), [54] which replaced the Supreme Court of the Colony of Singapore with the High Court of Malaysia in Singapore. [55] The jurisdiction of the High Court in Singapore was limited to all territory in the State of Singapore. [56]
A 38-year-old passenger from Garland, Texas was sentenced to six months in prison by a Singaporean court for his actions on a Singapore Airlines flight to that city from Tokyo on August 5. After heavy alcohol consumption on the trans-Pacific leg of the flight from Los Angeles, he boarded the plane to Singapore intoxicated.