Singapore court decisions

• Permission to appeal was refused; a mistaken legal view did not change the result

  [2025] SGCA 51 · Court of Appeal · 16 Oct 2025POP Holdings Pte Ltd v Teo Ban Lim and others · [2025] SGCA 51 · Court of Appeal · 16 Oct 2025 · Summary

  Police and courts

• Extra imprisonment could not replace caning for someone given preventive detention

  [2025] SGCA 48 · Court of Appeal · 13 Oct 2025Public Prosecutor v Mark Kalaivanan s/o Tamil arasan · [2025] SGCA 48 · Court of Appeal · 13 Oct 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Penal Code 1871

  Police and courts

• Appeals against convictions over a share price manipulation scheme were dismissed

  [2025] SGCA 49 · Court of Appeal · 10 Oct 2025Soh Chee Wen v Public Prosecutor and another appeal · [2025] SGCA 49 · Court of Appeal · 10 Oct 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Interpretation Act 1965, s 2

  Police and courts

• Sending an arbitration award back to the tribunal was the wrong remedy here

  [2025] SGCA 50 · Court of Appeal · 10 Oct 2025Vietnam Oil and Gas Group v Joint Stock Company (Power Machines – ZTL, LMZ, Electrosila Energomachexport) and another appeal · [2025] SGCA 50 · Court of Appeal · 10 Oct 2025 · Summary

  Relies on International Arbitration Act 1994, s 19

  Running a business

• A stay of a prisoner's execution was refused; nothing about the case was exceptional

  [2025] SGCA 47 · Court of Appeal · 7 Oct 2025Pannir Selvam a/l Pranthaman v Attorney-General · [2025] SGCA 47 · Court of Appeal · 7 Oct 2025 · Summary

  Police and courts

• A court may allow a further affidavit in committal proceedings

  [2025] SGCA 46 · Court of Appeal · 24 Sep 2025Mazzagatti, Francesco v Alliance Petrochemical Investment (Singapore) Pte Ltd · [2025] SGCA 46 · Court of Appeal · 24 Sep 2025 · Summary

  Police and courts

• A father's sentence for killing his child was raised to life; his appeals were dismissed

  [2025] SGCA 45 · Court of Appeal · 19 Sep 2025DAN v Public Prosecutor and another appeal · [2025] SGCA 45 · Court of Appeal · 19 Sep 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Penal Code 1871

  Police and courts

• Murder became culpable homicide after grave and sudden provocation was made out

  [2025] SGCA 44 · Court of Appeal · 18 Sep 2025Zin Mar Nwe v Public Prosecutor · [2025] SGCA 44 · Court of Appeal · 18 Sep 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Penal Code 1871

  Police and courts

• Loss from misdelivered cargo was valued using spot prices, not a spread of dates

  [2025] SGCA 42 · Court of Appeal · 5 Sep 2025Winson Oil Trading Pte Ltd v United Overseas Bank Ltd and another appeal · [2025] SGCA 42 · Court of Appeal · 5 Sep 2025 · Summary

  Running a business

• A stay of execution pending a complaint against former counsel was refused

  [2025] SGCA 43 · Court of Appeal · 5 Sep 2025Pannir Selvam Pranthaman v Attorney-General · [2025] SGCA 43 · Court of Appeal · 5 Sep 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Legal Profession Act 1966

  Police and courts

• Judicial managers who reasonably relied on legal advice were not removed

  [2025] SGCA 41 · Court of Appeal · 2 Sep 2025Tay Lak Khoon v Tan Wei Cheong (as judicial manager of USP Group Ltd) and others · [2025] SGCA 41 · Court of Appeal · 2 Sep 2025 · Summary

  Money and debt

• A bid to restore an appeal challenging the drug presumptions failed as it had no merit

  [2025] SGCA 40 · Court of Appeal · 28 Aug 2025Jumaat bin Mohamed Sayed and others v Attorney-General · [2025] SGCA 40 · Court of Appeal · 28 Aug 2025 · Summary

  Relies on Evidence Act 1893, s 108

  Police and courts

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