Skip to content

  • Home
  • Blog
    • Case Comments
    • Current Affairs
    • Legal Events
    • Statutory Developments
  • Journal
  • Supreme Court Initiatives
    • Supreme Court Case Summary Initiative
    • Supreme Court Rule of Law Articles
  • About Us
    • About Lexicon
    • Management Team
      • Previous Excos
    • Our Policy
  • Contact Us
  • In Memoriam

Tag: impossible attempt

May 6, 2020May 7, 2020 SMU Lexicon Supreme Court Case Summary Initiative

The Impossibility Defence: Han Fang Guan v Public Prosecutor [2020] SGCA 11

The law on "impossible attempts" (i.e. attempts to commit an offence that could not have been possibly completed) has long been fraught with conceptual difficulties. In Han Fang Guan v PP [2020] SGCA 11, the Singapore Court of Appeal finally laid down a two-stage approach for such crimes.

My Tweets
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • smulexicon.com
    • Join 87 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • smulexicon.com
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar