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Jury trials were abolished in 1969 and the Criminal Procedure Code was amended in 1992 to allow for trials of capital offences to be heard before a single judge. [1] The Court of Appeal is Singapore's final court of appeal after the right of appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London was abolished in April 1994.
Till today, the trial was known to be the largest ever conducted in the legal history of both Singapore and Malaysia (since Singapore was still a part of Malaysia at the time of the trial), given that there was a high number of defendants being charged with murder. For easier identification, the 59 accused were to wear number tags: the ...
Chionh, Mavis (2005), "The Development of the Court System", in Kevin Y L Tan (ed.), Essays in Singapore Legal History, Singapore: Singapore Academy of Law; Marshall Cavendish Academic, pp. 93– 138, ISBN 978-981-210-389-5. History, Supreme Court of Singapore, 21 May 2010, archived from the original on 19 July 2011
2 December 2024: The case of a 30-year-old woman found dead in a flat along Dover Road was classified as murder by the Singapore police. A 34-year-old man, suspected of being involved in the murder, left Singapore prior to the police receiving a call for assistance. The suspect and the victim were known to each other.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore's former Transport Minister S. Iswaran has pleaded guilty to receiving gifts while in office, as proceedings began on Tuesday in the first graft trial involving a ...
On 21 October 1970, the court dismissed Teo's appeal against his death sentence, and he was eventually hanged in May 1971. Teo was the first person in Singapore's legal history to be tried for a capital case before two judges in the High Court and also the first person to be sentenced to death following the abolishment of jury trials in January ...
Singapore’s first cryptocurrency trial over questionable trading practices began today as the market maker and liquidity provider B2C2 sues cryptocurrency exchange Quoine. The charge? B2C2 ...
Between April 15 and May 29, Getty Images tagged 12,692 images with “Donald Trump New York.” Jury Selection Begins In Former President Donald Trump's New York Hush Money Trial (Spencer Platt ...