Each judgment is set out in plain words: what happened, the question the court had to answer, what it decided and why, with the official citation and the full judgment one click away.
2,346 Singapore court judgments from 15 courts (2023–2026), free to read and search.
Judgments added up to 14 October 2026; the newest was decided on 14 October 2026.
Short reading paths through real judgments.
Shows how a judgment is built and how to read one: the issue the court must decide, the facts it relies on, the law it states, the reasons that apply the law to the facts, remarks it makes without deciding the case, and the orders at the end, through short appeal judgments from different areas of law.
Start the path 10 casesFollows a contract from its making to its terms: offer and acceptance, proving that a deal was struck, certainty of terms, intention to create legal relations, shams, consideration, when signed writing is needed, and how written terms shut out oral side deals.
Start the path 9 casesFollows how a sentencing court reasons: parity between co-offenders and the weight of past sentences, sentencing frameworks and benchmarks, the discount for an attempt, concurrent or consecutive terms and totality, then young offenders and offenders with a mental disorder.
Start the path 12 casesFigures counted from the reported judgments, with the cases behind each one.
Sentences imposed for 11 offences, from 67 reported judgments: the types of sentence, their range and the cases behind each figure.
Damages awarded for 10 kinds of injury, from 15 reported judgments, plus how courts split fault and the work-injury compensation limits beside court awards.
What the court ordered on costs in 745 reported judgments, by court, track and practice area, with the orders quoted from the judgments.
20 common questions about lawyers, costs and going to court, answered from official sources and reported judgments.
Each topic gathers the judgments on one area of law.
The newest judgments held, most recent first.
Yes, here. The High Court held a proper lookout includes checking blind spots, found the driver failed to re-check them while entering the crossing, and dismissed his appeal against conviction for driving without due care and attention causing death.
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No. The High Court held the retest requirement is not a relevant sentencing consideration and 12 months is not a sentencing threshold, and dismissed a taxi driver's appeal, upholding his 12-month disqualification for dangerous driving causing hurt.
Yes, here. Holding the letter binding on its approval and deposit terms and the tenant in breach, the High Court dismissed the tenant's $500,000 deposit claim and granted the landlord's counterclaim, damages to be assessed. The tenant has appealed.
No, here. A single judge held the materials were already canvassed, obtainable earlier or merely re-characterised, and appeal counsel was not flagrantly incompetent, so dismissed the application and refused permission to make a review application.
No, here. Though posting the mother's explicit photographs to family chats was emotional or psychological abuse, the court found the order not necessary given the low likelihood of future violence, and dismissed her application.
No, here. Under the thin-skull rule, the Deputy Registrar made no deduction, finding the 2022 accident materially aggravated the claimant's condition, but allowed several heads only in part, ordering capped provisional damages for any future surgery.
The record behind the lessons: the courts, judges, lawyers, law firms and parties named in the judgments.
Beyond the single judgments, four pages bring the record together.
For the firms named as counsel in the most reported judgments, read Largest Law Firms in Singapore, Ranked by Reported Court Cases (2026), which orders Singapore law firms by the number of reported judgments in which they appear as counsel.
For individual counsel, read Most Active Lawyers in Singapore, Ranked by Reported Court Cases (2026), which orders lawyers by the number of reported cases in which they appear as counsel.
For the size of the profession as a whole — how many practising lawyers, law practices and Senior Counsel there are — see Singapore's legal profession, in numbers, which sets official published figures beside the firms and counsel named in the reported judgments.
For what courts ordered on costs — by court, track and practice area, with the orders quoted — read What Singapore Courts Actually Awarded in Costs, drawn from the reported judgments that dealt with costs.
Every case page is written from the judgment itself and links to the full text. Figures on topic, sentencing, award and costs pages are counted from the judgments they list, and each figure names the cases behind it. The pages are for learning how Singapore courts decide; they are not legal advice.