Kho Jabing v Public Prosecutor
Jurisdiction | Singapore |
Judge | Chao Hick Tin JA |
Judgment Date | 05 April 2016 |
Neutral Citation | [2016] SGCA 21 |
Year | 2016 |
Date | 05 April 2016 |
Published date | 09 April 2016 |
Hearing Date | 05 November 2015,23 November 2015 |
Plaintiff Counsel | Chandra Mohan K Nair (Tan Rajah & Cheah) |
Citation | [2016] SGCA 21 |
Defendant Counsel | Francis Ng, Zhuo Wenzhao and Marshall Lim (Attorney-General's Chambers) |
Court | Court of Appeal (Singapore) |
Docket Number | Criminal Motion No 24 of 2015 |
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Dato' Sri Mohd Najib Bin Hj Abdul Razak v. Public Prosecutor
...but in terms of life and liberty. As Chao Hick Tin JA aptly said in the Singapore Court of Appeal case of Kho Jabing v Public Prosecutor [2016] SGCA 21: “42. However, the cost of error in the criminal process is measured not in monetary terms, but in terms of the liberty and, sometimes, eve......
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Amarjeet Singh v PP
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Nagaenthran a/l K Dharmalingam v Attorney-General and another matter
...not applied in as unyielding a manner as in the civil context, to echo the observation of this court in Kho Jabing v Public Prosecutor [2016] 3 SLR 135 (at [1]), there must come a time when the last word of the court is the last word, and that the last full stop in a written judgment is not......
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RIGHTISM, REASONABLENESS AND REVIEW: SECTION 377A OF THE PENAL CODE AND THE QUESTION OF EQUALITY – PART ONE
...[2013] 3 SLR 118 at [113]. 65 Syed Suhail bin Syed Zin v Attorney-General [2021] 1 SLR 809 at [63]; Kho Jabing v Public Prosecutor [2016] 3 SLR 135 at [50]. 66 A parallel common law development is evident in the flexible approach where greater judicial scrutiny applies to fundamental rights......
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...Rev Ed. 3 See, eg, (2013) 14 SAL Ann Rev 302 at 337–338, paras 14.81–14.83; (2015) 16 SAL Ann Rev 396 at 432–435, paras 14.88–14.95. 4 [2016] 3 SLR 135. 5 See (2013) 14 SAL Ann Rev 302 at 337–338; (2015) 16 SAL Ann Rev 396 at 432–435. 6 Kho Jabing v Public Prosecutor [2016] 3 SLR 135 at [44......