Traffic Court: The traffic Court hears and tries traffic offences. This includes traffic arrests, traffic Police summonses/notices where there are no offers of compensation (a traffic ticket).
Night Courts: These courts function for the convenience of the working public who would otherwise have to take time off from work in order to attend court. Operating hours are from 6pm onwards from Mondays to Fridays. There are two night courts, each with its own profile of cases. Court 26N deals with summonses and notices issued by the various departments (such as HDB, CPF, etc) while Court 25N deals with road traffic offences and those brought about by the LTA.
Coroners’ Court: In the event that someone’s family dies at home, contact the Police to attend the premises and ascertain that the death was natural. If you have a family doctor, contract them to attend the home to sign a death certificate.
The Coroner is a Judge of a State Court who, with the assistance of the Police, conducts investigations into the circumstances in which a deceased died. The Coroner’s Court deals with cases that are classified by the Police as Coroner’s cases. The CC will hold an inquiry when there is reason to suspect that a person has died in a sudden or unnatural manner, by violence, when the cause of death is unknown and in situations where the law requires an inquiry (for example death in prison, suspected suicides, an industrial death, etc.).
Common verdicts include suicide, misadventure and open verdict (where the cause of death is not clear). The body of a deceased will be brought to the Mortuary and the Police will contact you (if you had not been aware of this already). An autopsy may be conducted if the circumstances of death are suspicious. An autopsy decision cannot be appealed. In the event an individual is found to have contributed to the death, the judgment will be handed to the AGC and the Public Prosecutor will decide whether to bring the case against the individual for criminal misconduct.
