XU YUAN CHEN @ TERRY XU v ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Key facts
| Court | High Court (General Division) |
|---|---|
| Decided | |
| Judge | Chua Lee Ming |
| Charges / claim | Statutory Interpretation |
| Counsel | Attorney-General's Chambers, Carson Law Chambers, Dan Pan Xue Wen, Lim Tean, Shi Pei-Yi Sarah |
Source: [2023] SGHC 200, High Court (General Division), decided — eLitigation. Updated .
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Case Significance
Xu Yuan Chen (alias Terry Xu) v Attorney-General [2023] SGHC 200 is a grounds of decision of Chua Lee Ming J in the General Division of the High Court, delivered on 26 July 2023 in Originating Application No 572 of 2023. The appellant, Mr Xu Yuan Chen @ Terry Xu, filed this appeal against a Correction Direction issued against him under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019 (2020 Rev Ed) ("POFMA"), in connection with a Facebook post he made in April 2023 about an incident that happened in 2021. The judgment records the background to the 17 May 2021 incident, in which police received a first information report about an elderly woman who looked lost and homeless at Block 743, Yishun Avenue 5, and Sergeants Isaac Pang and Irfan Moktar attended; the catchwords concern the statutory construction of POFMA.
[2023] SGHC 200 explained
XU YUAN CHEN @ TERRY XU v ATTORNEY-GENERAL ([2023] SGHC 200) is a Singapore judgment decided by the High Court (General Division) on 26 July 2023. It is categorised under Statutory Interpretation. Within this corpus it has since been cited by 1 other reported Singapore judgment, a measure of how often later decisions have referred to it. This page summarises what the reported decision covers and links the primary sources — the full judgment, the statutes it cites, and the other cases it engages with — so the decision can be read in context. It is reference information, not legal advice, and it does not state the outcome or any holding beyond what the official judgment records.
What is [2023] SGHC 200 about?
XU YUAN CHEN @ TERRY XU v ATTORNEY-GENERAL ([2023] SGHC 200) is a High Court (General Division) decision from 2023. Its published catchwords are “Statutory Interpretation — Construction of statute — Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019 (2020 Rev Ed)”, which indicate the subject matter the judgment addresses. The full reasoning and orders are in the judgment itself, linked below.
What earlier Singapore cases does [2023] SGHC 200 cite?
Among the in-corpus authorities it refers to are [2023] SGHC 178 and [2023] SGHC 105. The complete list of cases cited, and of later cases that cite this decision, is shown on this page.
How influential is [2023] SGHC 200?
Within this corpus, [2023] SGHC 200 has been cited by 1 later reported Singapore judgment. That count reflects references from other decisions held in this corpus only and is a conservative lower bound on how often the case has actually been cited.
Summary
Xu Yuan Chen (alias Terry Xu) appealed against a Correction Direction issued under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019 over a Facebook post about a 2021 incident involving an elderly woman and police at Yishun. The court examined whether he had shown grounds to set aside the direction under s 17(5) of POFMA, finding one statement about why a police report was filed to be a blatant falsity. It dismissed the appeal, holding he failed to cross the threshold and the grounds were not made out.
What was Xu Yuan Chen (Terry Xu) v Attorney-General [2023] SGHC 200 about?
It was an appeal before Chua Lee Ming J, decided on 26 July 2023, by Xu Yuan Chen @ Terry Xu against a Correction Direction issued under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019 over a Facebook post he made in April 2023 about a 2021 incident.
What was the underlying incident in [2023] SGHC 200?
The Correction Direction concerned a 17 May 2021 incident in which police received a first information report about an elderly woman who looked lost and homeless at Block 743, Yishun Avenue 5, attended by Sergeants Isaac Pang and Irfan Moktar of Yishun South Neighbourhood Police Centre.
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Read on eLitigationSource: eLitigation ([2023] SGHC 200)