Roy S Selvarajah v Public Prosecutor

JurisdictionSingapore
CourtHigh Court (Singapore)
Judgment Date11 August 1998
Docket NumberMagistrate’s Appeal No 33 of 1998
Date11 August 1998

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16 cases
  • Ang Jwee Herng v Public Prosecutor
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 16 April 2001
    ... ... I reiterated this point again in the subsequent case of Roy S Selvarajah v PP [1998] 3 SLR 517 in which it was said that, in the absence of an ulterior motive, there is no reason to draw adverse inferences against the prosecution for its failure to call witnesses. There was clearly no suggestion of any such ulterior motive on the prosecution`s part in this case ... ...
  • Megastar Entertainment Pte Ltd and Another v Odex Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 28 April 2005
    ...or recording device, such as a hard disk drive installed in a desktop computer or server computer. Similarly, in Roy S Selvarajah v PP [1998] 3 SLR 517, I held at [44] that computer database records with the Data Processing Centre of the Immigration Department were admissible as documents w......
  • Khua Kian Keong and Another v Public Prosecutor
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 15 October 2003
    ...SLR (R) 881; [2002] 4 SLR 14 (folld) PP v Hendricks Glen Conleth [2003] 1 SLR (R) 426; [2003] 1 SLR 426 (folld) Roy S Selvarajah v PP [1998] 3 SLR (R) 119; [1998] 3 SLR 517 (folld) Sahadevan s/o Gundan v PP [2003] 1 SLR (R) 145; [2003] 1 SLR 145 (folld) Satli bin Masot v PP [1999] 1 SLR (R)......
  • Public Prosecutor v Rosman Abdul Wahab
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 2006
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1 books & journal articles
  • ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: PRINCIPLE AND PRAGMATISM IN THE CRIMINAL LAW
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2002, December 2002
    • 1 December 2002
    ...81 15 Apr 1998, High Court, Criminal Revision 2/1998. 82 [1998] 3 SLR 638. 83 Ibid, at 644. 84 [1998] 2 SLR 64. 85 [1998] 2 SLR 165. 86 [1998] 3 SLR 517. 87 See discussion, supra. 88 [2000] 3 SLR 439. 89 Ibid, at 453-4 (emphasis mine). 90 [2001] 1 SLR 552, at 562 (emphasis mine). 91 There i......