Ng Chee Tiong Tony v Public Prosecutor

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date12 December 2007
Date12 December 2007
Docket NumberMagistrate's Appeal No 35 of 2007
CourtHigh Court (Singapore)

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8 cases
  • Public Prosecutor v Mohammed Ali bin Johari
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 26 September 2008
    ...set out in Re Shankar Alan were, in fact, cited and applied in the recent Singapore High Court decision of Ng Chee Tiong Tony v PP [2008] 1 SLR 900. Indeed, in the latter case, the learned judge stated (at [21]) that he “[agreed] entirely with the exposition of the law by Menon JC in Shanka......
  • Goh Chin Soon v Public Prosecutor
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 30 July 2020
    ...Judge’s questioning of him on the witness stand. In this regard, the High Court said in Ng Chee Tiong Tony v Public Prosecutor [2008] 1 SLR(R) 900 (“Tony Ng”) at [22]: … In my view, while it is entirely proper for a trial judge to ask questions to clarify an unclear answer, or even to estab......
  • Aof v Pp
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 18 April 2012
    ...and Au Pui-Kuen at 357D). Dennis Reid was referred to in the Singapore High Court decision of Ng Chee Tiong Tony v Public Prosecutor [2008] 1 SLR(R) 900 (“Ng Chee Tiong Tony”) at [28]. Dennis Reid was also implicitly endorsed in the Singapore High Court decision of Beh Chai Hock v Public Pr......
  • Muhammad Nabill bin Mohd Fuad v Public Prosecutor
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 31 March 2020
    ...the Prosecution gaps in its case. In this regard, we endorse Lee Seiu Kin J’s observations in Ng Chee Tiong Tony v Public Prosecutor [2008] 1 SLR(R) 900 (“Ng Chee Tiong Tony”) as follows at [22]: … [W]hile it is entirely proper for a trial judge to ask questions to clarify an unclear answer......
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4 books & journal articles
  • Administrative and Constitutional Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...cited in Mohammed Ali bin Johari, at [161]. 1.66 These observations were cited with approval by the High Court in Ng Chee Tiong Tony v PP[2008] 1 SLR 900 (‘Ng Chee Tiong’) at [21], where the learned judge noted that ‘it is certainly not for the trial judge to test the credibility of a witne......
  • REMAKING THE EVIDENCE CODE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2009, December 2009
    • 1 December 2009
    ...who took the view that facts are actually “made” by judges subjectively after listening to the evidence: see especially pp 17—24. 146 [2008] 1 SLR 900. For an excellent judgment analysing these issues, see Menon JC’s judgment in Re Shankar Alan s/o Anant Kulkarni[2007] 1 SLR 47, which was f......
  • Criminal Procedure, Evidence and Sentencing
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...Menon JC”s decision in Re Shankar Alan s/o Anant Kulkarni[2007] 1 SLR 85. Hot on the heels of that case came Ng Chee Tiong Tony v PP[2008] 1 SLR 900 where Lee Seiu Kin J quashed a conviction on the basis that the trial court had failed to discharge its judicial function because it had assum......
  • Criminal Procedure, Evidence and Sentencing
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2016, December 2016
    • 1 December 2016
    ...Koh Bak Kiang v Public Prosecutor [2016] 2 SLR 574 at [57] and [58]. 61 Cap 97, 1997 Rev Ed. 62 Ng Chee Tiong Tony v Public Prosecutor [2008] 1 SLR(R) 900 at [22]. 63 [2016] 2 SLR 713. 64 Public Prosecutor v Chua Siew Wei Kathleen [2016] 2 SLR 713 at [24]. 65 Public Prosecutor v Chua Siew W......