Singapore News - The High Court has dismissed bids by two King’s Counsel, one from Australia and the other from Britain, to be admitted to the Singapore Bar on an ad hoc basis so that they can act for four convicted drug traffickers on death row. In a written judgment on Jan 30, Justice. Read more at www.tnp.sg
The Singapore High Court has dismissed applications moved by three Indian-origin Malaysians and a Singaporean Malay to stop the execution of death penalties awarded to them under stringent anti-drugs laws.
Singapore, Nov 26: The Singapore High Court has dismissed applications moved by three Indian-origin Malaysians and a Singaporean Malay to stop the execution of death penalties awarded to them under stringent anti-drugs laws. The four – Singaporean Jumaat Mohamed Sayed and Malaysians Lingkesvaran Rajendaren, Datchinamurthy Kataiah and Saminathan Selvaraju – had contended that the two provisions violate the constitutionally protected presumption of innocence. They were not represented by lawyers. The high court on Friday dismissed their applications for permission to […]
The Singapore High Court has dismissed applications moved by three Indian-origin Malaysians and a Singaporean Malay to stop the execution of death penalties awarded to them under stringent anti-drugs laws.
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SINGAPORE: A court has dismissed a bid by 22 inmates on death row to seek information over purportedly private letters from two inmates to their lawyers and families that the Singapore Prisons Service had forwarded to the Attorney-General s Chambers (AGC).
The 22 inmates, who are represented by lawyer M Ravi, had started legal action to obtain information from the AG, including the identities of those who had asked for the inmates correspondence to be forwarded to the AG and the people who sent on the information.