SINGAPORE - The Court of Appeal on Monday (Feb 28) ruled that Section 377A of the Penal Code - which criminalises sex between men - stays on the books but cannot be used to prosecute men for having gay sex. The ruling by a five-judge panel, delivered by Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, follows constitutional challenges to the law brought by.
An initiative implemented last year to deploy prosecutors to the police divisions has allowed cases to be cleared more quickly, with efficiency up by more than 50 per cent in most cases.
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The High Court has dismissed a civil suit against the Attorney-General, a deputy attorney- general and five prosecutors by a Malaysian drug runner who was spared the death penalty last year.
Justice Chua Lee Ming granted the defendants application to strike out Gobi Avedian s suit last Thursday, saying his claim was unsustainable.
The defendants are the office of the Attorney-General, current Attorney-General Lucien Wong, deputy attorney-general Hri Kumar Nair, deputy chief prosecutor Mohamed Faizal Mohamed Abdul Kadir, and prosecutors Tan Zhongshan, Nicholas Wuan, Chin Jincheng and Chong Kee En.
Gobi, through his then lawyer M. Ravi, had sued the defendants and deputy attorney-general Lionel Yee in November last year. The suit against Mr Yee was later dropped.