You Xin v Public Prosecutor and another appeal

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date24 July 2007
Date24 July 2007
Docket NumberMagistrate's Appeals Nos 28 and 29 of 2007
CourtHigh Court (Singapore)
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16 cases
  • Lee Hsien Loong v Singapore Democratic Party
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 13 October 2008
    ...John Donaldson MR in Attorney-General v Newspaper Publishing Plc [1988] Ch 333, which was quoted with approval recently in You Xin v PP [2007] 4 SLR 17 (“You Xin”). Sir Donaldson noted at 368 of Attorney-General v Newspaper Publishing The law of contempt is based upon the broadest of princi......
  • AG v Hertzberg Daniel
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 25 November 2008
    ...(“Pertamina Energy Trading Ltd”) at [22] which cited with approval Lord Cross’s comments; You Xin v Public Prosecutor and another appeal [2007] 4 SLR 17 (“You Xin”) at [14] where V K Rajah JA called the term a “misnomer”; and Solicitor-General v Radio Avon Ltd [1978] 1 NZLR 225 (“Radio Avon......
  • Shadrake Alan v AG
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 27 May 2011
    ...classified into two broad categories, viz, contempt by interference and contempt by disobedience (see, eg, You Xin v Public Prosecutor [2007] 4 SLR(R) 17 at [16] (“You Xin”)). The former category (viz, contempt by interference) comprises a wide range of matters such as: (1) disrupting the c......
  • Chee Soon Juan v PP
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 21 May 2012
    ...Thermal Corp and Parkinson (1986) 52 CR (3d) 188 (not folld) Surrey County Council v Battersby [1965] 2 QB 194 (refd) You Xin v PP [2007] 4 SLR (R) 17; [2007] 4 SLR 17 (refd) Criminal Procedure Code (Cap 68,1985 Rev Ed) s 176 Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act (Cap 184, ......
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2 books & journal articles
  • RETHINKING THE DICHOTOMY BETWEEN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CONTEMPT OF COURT
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...no particular scheme of categorisation can be truly exhaustive because, as it was rightly pointed out in You Xin v Public Prosecutor[2007] 4 SLR(R) 17 at [15], contempt of court is “the Proteus of the legal world, assuming an almost infinite diversity of forms”. 25 You Xin v Public Prosecut......
  • REVISITING THE HIGH COURT’S REVISIONARY JURISDICTION TO ENHANCE SENTENCES IN CRIMINAL CASES
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2009, December 2009
    • 1 December 2009
    ...663. 38 AIR 1973 SC 799. 39 [1996] 1 SLR 326 at [17]. 40 [1996] 1 SLR 326 at [19]. 41 [1999] 3 SLR 362. 42 [1999] 3 SLR 362 at [19]. 43 [2007] 4 SLR 17. 44 This aspect of the decision of the learned District Judge was not appealed upon. 45 [2007] 4 SLR 17 at [83]. 46 [2007] 4 SLR 17 at [89]......