Tag Archives: court of appeal

By International Human Rights Lawyer, M Ravi This article suggests that 2 of the Judges who ruled on the Marsiling-Yew Tee by-election case should not have done so after acting as Attorney General at separate times during the Hougang Single Member Constituency (“SMC”) by-election case in 2012 (“Hougang case”). On Wednesday 10th April 2019, a 5-member quorum in the Court …

By Ariffin Sha In the latest twist to what has been, under all circumstances, a most unusual case, the Court of Appeal (‘the Court’) has held that its previous decision on case involving Nigerian national Ilechukwu must be reviewed. Chao Hick Tin J, who delivered a summary of the Court Appeal’s judgement this morning, stated that the evidence which the …

By M Ravi Since May 2016 and the filing of the media statements by the Attorney-General’s Chambers and the Ministry of Home Affairs, a community of lawyers have observed a steady increase in the number of discouraging comments by the judiciary towards lawyers who chose to defend their clients in certain types of cases. This is especially apparent in death …