LAW309 Criminal Law, Procedure and Evidence I Tutor-Marked Assignment 1, 2026

LAW309 Tutor-Marked Assignment 1

This assignment is worth 5% of the final mark for LAW309 Criminal Law, Procedure and Evidence – 1.

The cut-off date for this assignment is Sunday, 23 August 2026, 2355 hrs.

Please submit your assignment on time, via CANVAS.

The cover page should show the title of your course, the topic, the date and your name.

The submitted assignment should be typewritten, double-spaced, with a size 12-font face and a 2.54cm (one-inch) margin all round. All pages should be numbered.

Instructions

The word limit is 800 words. Any text beyond 800 words will not be graded. State the word limit clearly at the end of your assignment. Citations may be made in-text or using footnotes, but not endnotes. If you do use footnotes/endnotes, take note that this will form part of your 800-word limit. You are required to state your total word count at the end of the assignment.

• Legislations referred to should be mentioned once in full followed by abbreviations if it is to be used subsequently.
  • g. 1^st instance:
    • section 42 of the Trustees Act 1967 (“TA”)
  •  Subsequently:
    • s 42 TA, etc.
• Cases referred to should be mentioned once in full with the citation followed by abbreviations if it is to be used subsequently.
  • g. 1^st instance:
    • Vintage Bullion DMCC v Chay Fook Yuen [2016] 4 SLR 1248 (“Vintage Bullion”)
  •  Subsequently: 
    • Vintage Bullion
  • Pinpoint citation is strongly encouraged, e.g. Vintage Bullion at [57].

Please do not repeat the legislation in its entirety. You should summarise the law appropriately. This assignment is intended to train you to write succinctly. You have limited word count and should quickly apply the law to the facts. Application of legal principles to the fact pattern will always score a higher mark.

You are being asked to advise the party or parties. “Advise” means that you are required to:  

• Indicate the various sources of the relevant law and how it has developed
• Demonstrate understanding of legal concepts and principles of the relevant case law, and the relationship between them in a number of subject areas, as well as to apply them
• Analyse fact patterns to identify relevant issues of law and facts
• Interpret the relevant law to the issues identified
• Apply the relevant law and principles to come to a conclusion on the issues
• Formulate an opinion, provide a solution and advise based on the conclusions drawn

In doing so, you are required to: 

• Discuss critically, competing arguments in the relevant case law and make a reasoned choice between alternatives
• Examine ideas, concepts and arguments in the English language and legal terminology with care and accuracy
• Employ information technology in an office environment for the search for information and in the preparation of your opinion.

In addition to assessing the substantive points raised in your answer, your answer will also be assessed on Quality of Communication (including clarity of writing, language proficiency, critical thinking, organization and flow).

Read the following hypothetical scenario and complete the task set out thereafter:

You are a criminal lawyer working for the venerable but small firm of d’Almeida & d’Almeida. Your supervising partner, Mr d’Almeida, has asked you to consider a client’s case and write him a briefing note informing him of the client’s legal position.

The facts of the case are found in Client File 1. Your client is Adam Ang.

Investigations are not yet complete, but the client’s parents want an assessment of the likely charges against him. Client was informed by the IO that he was likely to be charged under either section 3 or section 4 of the Protection from Harassment Act 2014.

Mr d’Almeida is meeting the client this week and needs to know what the legal position is so he can advise the client.

Advise your supervising partner: 

• what the elements of the offences are,
• whether either charge is made out, and
• consequently, what course of action he should advise the client to take. In particular, client’s parents want to know if it would be advisable to make representations to the prosecution at this point.

If you need to make assumptions, state your assumptions and your reasons for making them. If you need more evidence/information, say so explicitly.

(Up to 10 marks will be awarded for clarity, coherence and concision in presentation)

(100 marks)

You are required to state your total word count at the end of your assignment. 

—- END OF ASSIGNMENT —-

LAW309 Client File 1

d’Almeida & d’Almeida LLP

Background

• Client is a student at Temasek University. He is studying Computer Science.
• Client is under investigation by the police in respect of an incident that took place on 17 June 2026.
• Client has no existing criminal record.
• Client is a Temasek University Scholar, which is awarded to the top 5% of the cohort and comes with full payment of his school fees.
• Client’s parents own a supermarket chain and are highly successful entrepreneurs.
• Client is concerned that any conviction may result in him losing his highly competitive scholarship.

Client’s account of the incident

• On 17 June 2026, client was at the canteen at Block 1 of Temasek University. It was around lunchtime. He was there with a few of his friends. He cannot recall exactly who was there, but he remembers his best friend, Brian Boey (“Brian”) was present.
• Client remembers seeing a beautiful girl enter the canteen. She was carrying a large number of books and binders in her arms. She was wearing a blue tank top and black FBT shorts.
• Client was immediately taken with the girl. He watched her cross the canteen and put her things on a table two rows down from where client and his friends were sitting.
• As the girl was putting her things on the table, some of her books slipped off, causing all her things to then cascade onto the floor. She bent down to pick her things up over the floor, and in doing so, client was able to view her buttocks (although they were covered by her shorts at the time).
• Client then turned to Brian, nodded his head towards the girl and said, “Wah, wah, dinner and show, leh! I wouldn’t mind just…” and then he made several thrusting motions with his hips and mimed slapping someone’s buttocks.
• Brian and some other friends burst out laughing. Becoming aware of the commotion, the girl stood up, turned around to look at client, and started blushing furiously.
• She then started crying, abandoned her things, and ran out of the canteen.
• Client felt extremely embarrassed and remorseful. He says he did not mean for the girl to overhear him.
• Brian then shouted at someone, “Oi! You recording, ah? Put it away, pervert!”

Client turned around and saw Derrick Ding (“Derrick”), a classmate, using his phone to film client and his friends. Client confronted Derrick angrily but does not remember exactly what he said. – Derrick then told him, “You shouldn’t have done that, asshole. I’m reporting you.”

• Client and Brian walked over to Derrick and tried to reason with him. However, Derrick refused and kept insisting he was going to use the video footage to report client to the school and/or the police.
• Client got fed up trying to reason with Derrick. He told Derrick, “Give me the damn phone!” and tried to knock it out of Derrick’s hand. However, he missed, and Derrick managed to put his phone back in his pocket.
• At this point, campus security intervened, and client was taken to the Provost’s Office.
• He waited at the Provost’s Office for about an hour, and then two police officers came and escorted him to Temasek Police Station.

Police Investigations

• Client was interviewed by an IO but he does not know the IO’s name.
• Client was kept waiting for 3 hours before the interview. The interview subsequently dragged on until midnight. Client was given dinner at about 7.30pm.
• Client was eventually released but not given a copy of his statement. He remembers telling the IO that he did not mean for the girl to overhear him, and that anyway, it was a compliment. He genuinely found her to be sexually attractive.
• Client is currently on police bail. He remembers the IO telling him he is likely to be charged under either section 3 or 4 of the Protection from Harassment Act 2014.
• Client’s parents are extremely concerned and advised him to engage a lawyer.

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