In Akbar Ali s/o Abdul Majeed v Public Prosecutor [2025] SGHC 32, the General Division of the High Court upheld the District Judge’s dismissal of the appellant’s application for costs and compensation orders. The court found that the prosecution was neither marked by evidential insufficiency nor pursued with malice, dishonesty, or improper motives such as to render the prosecution frivolous or vexatious. A no case to answer submission would not be determinative. Moreover, the propriety of the investigative and prosecutorial processes, while in some instances related to the question of whether the prosecution was frivolous or vexatious, is a separate inquiry from the latter. Read more: go.gov.sg/2025sghc32