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| | | The Ethics of Prosecution | 
|  | Lee Kong Chian Visiting Professor of Law
SMU Yong Pung How School of Law |
| SYNOPSISIn Singapore the discretion to prosecute or not to prosecute is vested in the Attorney-General as Public Prosecutor. The A-G cannot consider every single case. In practice, these decisions are taken by the Deputy Attorneys-General, the Solicitors-General, the Chief Prosecutors and ultimately by the line Deputy Public Prosecutors. There are also departmental prosecutors in some Ministries. Finally, it is possible in certain cases for a private prosecution to be instituted.
This talk will deal with the matters that have to be considered when a decision to prosecute or not to prosecute is taken. A good prosecutor must decide in accordance with the law. But often there are issues of policy involved in these decisions. The ethical dimension of prosecutorial decisions is important.
An understanding of how prosecutorial decisions are made is useful not only for prosecutors but also for defence counsel, civil lawyers and even the lay public.
SPEAKERProfessor Walter Woon S.C. is currently Lee Kong Chian Visiting Professor, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University; Honorary Fellow St John’s College Cambridge University; Emeritus Professor National University of Singapore (former David Marshall Professor of Law), and Non-executive Chairman and Senior Consultant with RHTLaw Asia LLP.
Prof. Woon was previously Attorney-General (2008-2010); Solicitor-General (2006-2008), ambassador to Germany, Greece, the European Communities, the European Union, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the Holy See (1998-2006), and Nominated Member of Parliament (1992- 1996).
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| |  | Registration will close on 31 March 2025.
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| DATE3 April 2025 | TIME4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
(Registration starts at 3:45 PM) | DELIVERY MODEIn-Person | VENUESingapore Management University | LOCATION MAPClick HERE for map | PUBLIC MEC POINT 1
| PRACTICE AREACrime | TRAINING LEVELGeneral | | | PROGRAMME| 3:45 PM | Registration
| | 4:00 PM | Start of Event
| | 5:00 PM | Q&A
| | 5:30 PM | End of Event | | | |
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