Among the recent amendments to the Penal Code is a new offence of “Sexual grooming of minor under 16″. This offence is targeted at sexual predators who prowl Internet chat rooms hoping to procure minors for sexual activity.
A person above 21 years of age commits this offence if he intentionally meets or travels to meet a minor. These acts must be done with the intention of committing a sexual offence with the minor. The accused must also have met or communicated with the minor on at least two prior occasions.
Since …

The past months have seen Singapore caught up in an en bloc fever. Even as great profits have been made, some found themselves in the predicament of losing their homes.
In response to such cries of foul play, the Minister for Law, Deputy Prime Minister Professor S. Jayakumar, moved to introduce amendments to the procedure for en bloc sales. These changes were introduced with the following objectives in mind:

More transparency
Additional safeguards for all

As outlined in Reading Speech for the Amendment Bill, …

Many amendments have been made to existing legislation recently, but two of the proposed amendments to the Infectious Diseases Act (Cap. 137, 2003 Rev. Ed. Sing) (IDA) – designed to govern the management of infectious diseases- have garnered most attention.
Use of leftover treatment samples
The first expands section 7 of the existing IDA by empowering the Director of Medical Services to obtain leftover samples drawn in the course of regular medical treatment, to determine the prevalence or incidence of infectious diseases in Singapore. With this amendment, any leftover sample taken from …

As we plough through cases with long, dry judgments, we watch how the law has developed over the years through the various situations placed before the court. We tend to get be so focused on examining the past that we overlook the present – what the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) Law Reform and Revision Division (LRRD) is doing on a day-to-day basis.
The LRRD reviews laws and recommends relevant changes in order to ensure that our legal infrastructure is kept up to date with the rest of the world. In an increasingly …