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The Sentencing Of "Couriers" Under Section 33b Of The Misuse Of Drugs Act: Pp V Chum Tat Suan [2014] Sgca 59, Benjamin Joshua Ong
The Sentencing Of "Couriers" Under Section 33b Of The Misuse Of Drugs Act: Pp V Chum Tat Suan [2014] Sgca 59, Benjamin Joshua Ong
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Sections 33B(1)–(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act (“the Act”)1 allow for a person who commits an offence under ss 5(1) or 7 of the Act to be sentenced to life imprisonment and caning instead of death if two conditions are met.
Arresting The Fraud, Singapore Management University
Arresting The Fraud, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
Proper internal controls are important in fraud prevention
Counterblast: Escaping The Gallows Singapore Style, Mark Findlay
Counterblast: Escaping The Gallows Singapore Style, Mark Findlay
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
The four‐year long struggle by Yong Vui Kong to challenge his mandatory death sentence reveals how life and death decisions can turn on legal niceties. For instance, on 20 November 2009, the President of the Republic of Singapore turned down Yong's plea for clemency and this news was conveyed to the prisoner's brother by his then lawyer three days later. Along with this sad information, he was told that his brother would be hung on 4 December 2009. Yong's brother then engaged the respected human rights advocate, M. Ravi, who was granted an interview with the prisoner two days prior …
Sign Up Or Sign Off: Asia’S Reluctant Engagement With The International Criminal Court, Mark Findlay
Sign Up Or Sign Off: Asia’S Reluctant Engagement With The International Criminal Court, Mark Findlay
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
The International Criminal Court argues that there is a need to achieve universal ratification so that the majority of mankind will no longer remain outside the protection of the ICC. In the Asia/Pacific region there is a relatively low accession rate of nation states to the Rome Statute. This paper proposes a taxonomy of resistance to ratification in the region, recognising that in speculating on the reasons for resistance to the ratification of international criminal justice, local to the global across Asia and the Pacific, there is a risk in both over emphasising cultural and political difference while at the …