Lim Chin Aik v R
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1963 |
| Date | 1963 |
| Year | 1963 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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14 cases
- Mohamed Ibrahim v PP
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Public Prosecutor v Phua Keng Tong and Another
... ... This pronouncement was approved and adopted by the Privy Council in Lim Chin Aik v R [1963] AC 160; [1963] MLJ 50 ... In that case the accused (who had entered Singapore) was charged with and convicted of the offence of contravening s 6(2) of the Immigration Ordinance 1952 by remaining in Singapore after he had been declared a prohibited immigrant. At the trial ... ...
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Tan Meng Lian and Public Prosecutor
...or by necessary implication by the language of the statute or by the subject matter with which the statute deals (Lim Chin Aik v R [1963] 1 MLJ 50, Sweet v Parsley [1970] AC 132 and Public Prosecutor v Phua Keng Tong [1986] SLR 168). 72. In the absence of a clear indication in the Act that ......
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Tan Cheng Kwee v Public Prosecutor
...mens rea is a necessary ingredient of any statutory provision that creates an offence: Sweet v Parsley [1970] AC 132; Lim Chin Aik v R [1963] MLJ 50; PP v Phua Keng Tong [1986] 2 MLJ 279. This presumption, however, can be rebutted by the clear language of the statute, or by necessary implic......
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1 books & journal articles
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MANAGING MENS REA IN SINGAPORE
...J in Sherras v Rutzen[1895] 1 QB 918 at 921, quoted with approval in the Singapore Privy Council case of Lim Chin Aik v R[1963] 1 AC 60; [1963] MLJ 50, are often cited: There is a presumption that mens rea or evil intention or knowledge of the wrongfulness of the act is an essential ingredi......