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SINGAPORE: Singapore's Attorney-General Walter Woon has come out to state that his department does not prosecute someone arbitrarily.
Speaking to the media after the Law Review Lecture on Friday, Professor Woon was asked about a recent comment made by an MP in Parliament that the prosecution could sometimes be sloppy with its investigations resulting in lengthy trials.
The issue had come up during a recent parliamentary debate about acquittal and the presumption of innocence.
This came after the Attorney-General's Chambers wrote in to a newspaper in May following the case of a teacher who was acquitted of molesting several school boys.
Professor Woon also defended the work of his prosecutors.
He said: "Each prosecutor literally deals with hundreds of cases in a year. The number of investigation papers referred to the AG's Chambers by the police numbers in the tens of thousands and I have eighty prosecutors. And not all are there at the same time. Many are on study leave, no pay leave or maternity leave. So the rest have to bear the brunt.
“So if there is a case if somebody feels that the prosecution has been sloppy, please let me know." - CNA/vm
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