Supreme Court Initiatives

Category: Supreme Court Initiatives

SMU Lexicon collaborates with the Supreme Court of Singapore on two initiatives: the Supreme Court Case Summary Initiative and the Supreme Court Rule of Law Articles.

Under the Supreme Court Case Summary Initiative, SMU Law students (under SMU Lexicon) report on selected Court of Appeal judgments, highlighting the significant points, so as to foster greater public awareness of these cases and their implications.

Under the Supreme Court Rule of Law Articles, SMU Law students (under SMU Lexicon) pen articles on a number of issues concerning the rule of law, so as to foster greater public awareness of how cases are decided as well as the legal processes involved.

All articles written under these two initiatives are on SMU Lexicon’s website. Supreme Court Case Summary Initiative articles are also on the Supreme Court of Singapore’s website at: https://www.judiciary.gov.sg/judgments/case-briefs-by-smu

When is a drug trafficker who claims to be a mere ‘courier’ not merely a ‘courier’? The Court of Appeal addressed this question in Zainudin bin Mohamed v Public Prosecutor [2018] SGCA 8. The issue was whether a drug trafficker who divided and repacked drugs was merely “transporting, sending or delivering a controlled drug” under s 33B(2)(a)(iii) of the Misuse of Drugs Act (Cap 185, 2008 Rev Ed) (“MDA”), and hence eligible for discretionary life imprisonment (rather than the death penalty) under this so-called “courier exception”.