Non-Insane automatism and the Singapore Penal Code: Public Prosecutor v Ong Jun Yong [2022] SGMC 37

• Main Author: CHAN, Wing Cheong
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Criminal Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4345
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Decisions from the lowest tier of the judicial hierarchy are normally ignored because they do not have precedential value. However, the case of Public Prosecutor v Ong Jun Yong [2022] SGMC 37 should be studied closely as this is the first time that the concept of automatism (ie, involuntariness) in...