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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.
Since the crime of murder was a capital offence in Singapore (inherited from the laws of British colonial rule), Ang faced mandatory capital punishment should the jury find him guilty, either by a majority or unanimous decision under the law of Singapore (before the country's abolition of jury trials in 1970).
Singapore fully abolished the jury system in 1969, [60] though jury trials for non-capital offenses had already been abolished a decade earlier. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew , a former trial lawyer, explained why he supported the policy to the BBC and in his memoirs, saying, "I had no faith in a system that allowed the superstition, ignorance ...
The trial judge was Murray Buttrose, who was best known for sentencing the aforementioned killer Sunny Ang to death for killing his girlfriend. A special jury of seven members was selected to hear the case, and back then in Singapore, jury trials were conducted to hear capital cases up until 1970, before the abolition of the jury system. [14]
By the time of Teo's trial, Singapore had fully abolished the jury trial procedure for capital cases on 5 January 1970, a month before the beginning of Teo's trial. Therefore, instead of a jury, Teo would be tried before two trial judges - Justice A V Winslow and Justice T. Kulasekaram - at the High Court.
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 ...
Changi Prison, where Singapore's death row is located Capital punishment in Singapore is a legal penalty. Executions in Singapore are carried out by long drop hanging, and usually take place at dawn. Thirty-three offences—including murder, drug trafficking, terrorism, use of firearms and kidnapping —warrant the death penalty under Singaporean law. In 2012, Singapore amended its laws to ...