Seow Zhixiang
In September 2007, the Committee to Develop the Singapore Legal Sector, headed by Judge of Appeal Justice V K Rajah, released its Final Report. The Final Report addressed a wide range of issues affecting the legal sector and made a number of progressive recommendations in relation to legal education and access to justice, among other things. Of particular note are the Committee’s favourable opinions on class actions and contingency fees. Careful study of the Final Report, it is suggested, will dispel any misconception about the conservatism of the …

 Recent Case: Public Prosecutor v. Goh Lee Yin, [2007] SGHC 205.
In May 2007, 26-year-old Goh Lee Yin was sentenced by a District Court to one day’s imprisonment and fined $8,000 for theft. Goh, a kleptomaniac who had been shoplifting since she was nine, had taken handbags worth $2,335 off the shelves of Coach and Louis Vuitton. Dissatisfied with the sentence, the prosecution appealed, arguing that a harsher sentence was appropriate since Goh had committed the present offences while on probation for similar shoplifting offences she had committed in 2005. However, …

The Singapore Law Review returns after a brief hiatus — volume 25 of the only student-run legal journal in Singapore has been published. Featuring articles from the Singapore Law Review Writing Competition 2007, this issue of the journal also includes text from the 19th and 20th Singapore Law Review Lectures, an interview with the Chief Justice of Australia, the Honourable Anthony Murray Gleeson, and a memorial to R.H. Hickling. Click Read More for a complete listing of the articles in this issue of the Singapore Law Review.
Queries regarding the Singapore …