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Singapore MDAabetment conspiracy

Liew Zheng Yang v PP

[2017] 5 SLR 611 (also reported [2017] SGHC 157)
JurisdictionSingapore
CourtSingapore High Court
Year2017
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

A buyer who orders drugs from a seller for delivery to himself solely for his own consumption cannot be liable for abetting the seller by engaging in a conspiracy to traffic in those drugs, because there is no shared intent to traffic.

Area of Law

criminal

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