Muntaz Binte Zainuddin

Knowledge Lawyer | Singapore


Secretary Muneerah Banu Mashuthoo

 

Track record

Advised employers/employees

Advised employers/employees on issues related to breach of contract, disciplinary investigations, severance packages and settlement agreements - Singapore
 

Defended case relating to the mitigating factors of abuse

Public Prosecutor v CDL [2022] SGHC 122 – a case where a stepfather convicted of serious sexual assaults against his minor stepdaughter received downward calibration of his sentences due to cogent mitigating factors.
 

Prosecuted employment agency assisting an unlicensed agent goes against public policy

Public Prosecutor v Soon Ah Yong @ Dennis Soon Yang Shiun - [2011] SGDC 284 - a case where a purposive approach of legislation was applied and the offender's actions in assisting an agent without an employment agency licence was held to be in breach of is obligations under the law and against public policy.

Defended case concerning vulnerable young offender

PP v ASR [2019] SGCA 16 - A case that was heard by a panel of five Court of Appeal Judges (including the Chief Justice) which determined that the culpability of a low IQ offender convicted of a serious crime is lesser than normal persons and the option of Reformative training should not be excluded simply due to the seriousness of his crime and his low IQ. 

 

Assisted prosecution or defence of lawyers in the Disciplinary Tribunals

Law Society of Singapore

Represented and advised various divorcing couples

Represented and advised various divorcing couples on divorce proceedings, interim applications, personal protection orders and stay applications - Family Courts Singapore
 

Talks

  • Frequent radio interviews by Malay radio station – Warna
  • Radio Interviews by Money FM – 89.3 (English)
  • Gotong Royong episode on Suria - TV Show
  • Manja episode on Suria for talk on scams - TV Show 
  • Juri- TV Show