Ong Choon; R
| Jurisdiction | Malaysia |
| Date | 1938 |
| Year | 1938 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Malaysia) |
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4 cases
- R; Teh Leong Cheh
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Public Prosecutor v Ong Jun Yong
...a negligent act under section 304A as he did not possess the requisite fault element of negligence. [emphasis added] In R v Ong Choon [1938] MLJ 227 at 229, the court adopted the following definition of “accident” proposed by James Stephen in his Digest of Criminal Law (Macmillan, 1st Ed, 1......
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Leu Xing-Long v Public Prosecutor
...any unforeseen evil result that may ensue from accident or misfortune. The term “accident” is not defined in the PC. In Rex v Ong Choon [1938] MLJ 227 at 229, the Singapore Court of Criminal Appeal adopted the following definition for “accident” by Stephens in his Digest of Criminal Law 3rd......
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Leu Xing-Long v Public Prosecutor
...any unforeseen evil result that may ensue from accident or misfortune. The term “accident” is not defined in the PC. In Rex v Ong Choon [1938] MLJ 227 at 229, the Singapore Court of Criminal Appeal adopted the following definition for “accident” by Stephens in his Digest of Criminal Law 3rd......
1 books & journal articles
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MANAGING MENS REA IN SINGAPORE
...ignorance of s 300(c) and appeared to assume that an intention to cause death was invariably required. See, for example, R v Ong Choon[1938] MLJ 227, the Court of Criminal Appeal of the Straits Settlements quoted this jury direction of the trial judge without censure: He was intending to do......