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Masoud Rahimi bin Mehrzad v Public Prosecutor

[2016] SGCA 69; [2017] 1 SLR 257
JurisdictionSingapore
CourtCourt of Appeal of Singapore
Year2016
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Where the prosecution invokes the presumption of knowledge under s 18(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act, the accused must rebut it on the balance of probabilities; the doctrine of wilful blindness was treated as the legal equivalent of actual knowledge within the s 18(2) concept of knowledge.

Area of Law

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