Mansoor s/o Abdullah and Another v Public Prosecutor

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date09 September 1998
Date09 September 1998
Docket NumberCriminal Appeal No 2 of 1998
CourtCourt of Appeal (Singapore)
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8 cases
  • Zailani bin Ahmad v Public Prosecutor
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 23 November 2004
    ...to satisfy the court that he was indeed suffering from diminished responsibility at the time of the offence: Mansoor s/o Abdullah v PP [1998] 3 SLR 719; and Tengku Jonaris Badlishah v PP [1999] 2 SLR 260 (“Tengku Jonaris”) at [35]. They (a) The appellant must have been suffering from an abn......
  • Daniel Vijay s/o Katherasan v PP
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 3 September 2010
    ...[1993] 2 SLR(R) 754, Asokan v Public Prosecutor [1995] 1 SLR(R) 936 and Mansoor s/o Abdullah and another v Public Prosecutor [1998] 3 SLR(R) 403). In respect of all these cases, it can be said that there was evidence on which, if the Barendra test had been applied, it would have been possib......
  • Ong Chee Hoe and Another v Public Prosecutor
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 2 September 1999
    ... ... of and applied by the Singapore courts [see Suradet v PP [1993] 3 SLR 265 , Ibrahim bin Masod v PP [1993] 3 SLR 873 , Mansoor s/o Abdullah v PP [1998] 3 SLR 719 , Too Yin Sheong v PP (supra) and Shaiful Edham bin Adam v PP [1999] 2 SLR 57 ]. Whether there is ... ...
  • Tengku Jonaris Badlishah v Public Prosecutor
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 22 March 1999
    ... ... In Mansoor s/o Abdullah & Anor v PP [1998] 3 SLR 719 , it was stated that there are three limbs to this ... with getting a Rolex watch for Saifon did not amount to an obsession, which is another symptom of dysthymia. Dr Tsoi was of the view that this preoccupation on the appellant`s part could ... ...
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2 books & journal articles
  • Criminal Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2006, December 2006
    • 1 December 2006
    ...him of diminished responsibility. This test had been advocated by several earlier courts: for example, see Mansoor s/o Abdullah v PP[1998] 3 SLR 719; Tengku Jonaris Badlishah v PP[1999] 2 SLR 260. It requires the accused to prove on the balance of probabilities that: (a) he was suffering fr......
  • DIMINISHED RESPONSIBILITY: A LESS VINDICATORY EXCUSE THAN PROVOCATION
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2005, December 2005
    • 1 December 2005
    ...The level of proof for the whole defence — all three limbs — is one of a balance of probabilities. See also Mansoor s/o Abdullah v PP[1998] 3 SLR 719 at [13]; Lim Chin Chong v PP[1998] 2 SLR 794 at [34]. 3 [1960] 2 QB 396 (“R v Byrne”). See Stanley Yeo, “Improving the Determination of Dimin......

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