Public Prosecutor v NF

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date21 September 2006
Date21 September 2006
Docket NumberCriminal Case No 22 of 2006
CourtHigh Court (Singapore)
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138 cases
  • Public Prosecutor v Mohammed Liton Mohammed Syeed Mallik
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 31 October 2007
    ...sexual assaults or violence by the offender against the victim. 94 These guidelines were comprehensively reviewed by Rajah J in PP v NF [2006] 4 SLR 849 (“NF”). Referring to the case of Millberry ([93] supra), where the English Court of Appeal reviewed the sentencing practice of the English......
  • Fricker Oliver v PP
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 18 August 2010
    ...similar to the present offences so as to justify a longer sentence on the basis of specific deterrence (see Public Prosecutor v NF [2006] 4 SLR(R) 849 (“NF”) at [69]). Another relevant consideration is the length of time between the previous conviction and the present offences, since a “sub......
  • PP v Shamsul bin Sa'at
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 30 April 2010
    ...aggravating or mitigating factors is ten years’ imprisonment in a contested case, in addition to six strokes of the cane. In PP v NF [2006] 4 SLR(R) 849 (“PP v NF”), V K Rajah J (as he then was) considered R v William Christopher Millberry [2003] 2 Cr App R (S) 31 (“Millberry”) and adopted ......
  • PP v Amayapan Kodanpany
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 12 February 2010
    ...There were no convictions for sexual offences or offences against young persons. As V K Rajah J stated in Public Prosecutor v NF [2006] 4 SLR(R) 849 at [69], when he was sentencing an accused person who had previous convictions for housebreaking and theft, and drug trafficking and consumpti......
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9 books & journal articles
  • Criminal Procedure, Evidence and Sentencing
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2011, December 2011
    • 1 December 2011
    ...sentencing. 13.106 The High Court noted that the sentencing tariffs for offences of rape have been laid down in Public Prosecutor v NF[2006] 4 SLR(R) 849, and endorsed by the Court of Appeal in Public Prosecutor v Mohammed Liton Mohammed Syeed Mallik[2008] 1 SLR(R) 601 and Public Prosecutor......
  • Criminal Procedure, Evidence and Sentencing
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2021, December 2021
    • 1 December 2021
    ...[2006] 1 SLR(R) 265; Public Prosecutor v Fernando Payagala Waduge Malitha Kumar [2007] 2 SLR(R) 334; and Public Prosecutor v NF [2006] 4 SLR(R) 849. 84 [2021] 2 SLR 642. 85 Teo Seng Tiong v Public Prosecutor [2021] 2 SLR 642 at [104]. 86 Teo Seng Tiong v Public Prosecutor [2021] 2 SLR 642 a......
  • JUDICIAL DECISION-MAKING AND EXPLAINABLE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2021, December 2021
    • 1 December 2021
    ...Prosecutor [2017] 2 SLR 449 at [12]–[22], pointing out that the prior framework for sentencing in rape cases in Public Prosecutor v NF [2006] 4 SLR(R) 849 resulted in clustering of sentences and overall conceptual incoherence, necessitating a revision of the sentencing benchmark. 143 See On......
  • Administrative and Constitutional Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2006, December 2006
    • 1 December 2006
    ...Double jeopardy 1.77 More specifically, sentencing principles are subject to norms in the form of constitutional liberties. In PP v NF[2006] 4 SLR 849 at [66], V K Rajah J (as he then was) in determining sentencing for a case of familial rape noted in relation to an offender”s past criminal......
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