Case Comment: Judicial Mercy and its Limits: Public Prosecutor v Tang Wee Sung [2008] SGDC 262

Author: Tan, Paul

Source: Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, Volume 9, Number 2, Winter 2009 , pp. 185-193(9)

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Abstract:

Should an offender be entitled to mercy on account of ill-health when the offence of which they are guilty itself cognises the fact that such offenders are highly likely to suffer from the ill-health in question? This case note attempts to answer this novel question by reference to a rather unusual case that arose recently in the Singapore District Court, which accepted a plea for judicial mercy in the context a kidney patient who had violated the State?s law against the commercial trading of organs.

Document Type: Commentary

Publication date: 2009-12-01

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