Attorney-General (AG) Steven Chong praised participants from SMU and NUS for their “meaningful contribution” in the area of law that involves life and death. This comprised the legal definitions of culpable homicide and murder in Singapore’s Penal Code. AG Chong was presenting prizes to the winners on Friday for the second Law Reform Competition organised by the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) in collaboration with Singapore’s two law schools. SMU fourth-year student Dierdre Grace Morgan‘s suggestion – that homicide could be viewed as involving different wrongs, instead of different degrees of the same wrong – won first prize, including cash of $1,500 and a four-week internship with the AGC's Legislation and Law Reform Division. Meanwhile, SMU fourth-year student Rachel Chin and graduate Jonathan Muk’s suggestion to rename the concept of culpable homicide and tweak its relationship with the idea of murder took third prize, which included cash of $500 and the same internship stint.