A novel approach to deriving sentencing frameworks – Sentencing as a science and/or art? Supreme Court Case Summary: Takaaki Masui v Public Prosecutor

• Main Authors: TOH, Keith Ian Ray, ANG, Shawn De Xian
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Courts; Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sljlexicon/11; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sljlexicon/article/1014/viewcontent/A_NOVEL.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In Takaaki Masui v Public Prosecutor and another appeal and other matters [2021] 4 SLR 160 (“Masui v PP”), the High Court (“HC”) introduced a new sentencing framework for purely private corruption offences under ss 6(a) and 6(b) of the Prevention of Corruption Act (Cap 241, 1993 Rev Ed) (“PCA”). Sig...