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[2021] SGHC 169

Public Prosecutor v Song Hauming Oskar and another appeal

General Division of the High Court5 July 2021

Criminal Procedure and Sentencing] — [Sentencing] — [Availability of community orders or community sentences] — [If an accused person is convicted of a charge amalgamated under s 124(4) of the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap 68, 2012 Rev Ed) (“the CPC”), and by virtue of s 124(8)(a)(ii) of the CPC, may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term which exceeds three years, is the court statutorily precluded under s 337(1)(i) of the CPC from imposing community sentences under Part XVII of the CPC?] —; Meaning of the word “offence” in s 337(1)(i) of the CPC] — [Does the word “offence” in s 337(1)(i) of the CPC refer to the amalgamated offence under s 124(4) of the CPC, or the underlying base offences which are amalgamated under s 124(4)?; Criminal Procedure and Sentencing] — [Charge] — [Purpose of framing an amalgamated charge under s 124(4) of the CPC] — [Is the device of amalgamation under s 124(4) of the CPC purely procedural in nature or does it have substantive implications?; Criminal Procedure and Sentencing] — [Sentencing] — [Mentally disordered offenders] — [When is the sentencing consideration of deterrence displaced by rehabilitation in respect of credit card cheating offences under s 417 of the Penal Code (Cap 224, 2008 Rev Ed)?

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