Protection from Harassment Act ("POHA")

(1) Case Information

Fig 1. Indicate whether you have the permission of Court for this application.

If you select:

• “Yes”, proceed to Fig 1a

• “No”, proceed to Fig 1b.

Fig 1a. Indicate the case number where order was given along with the order number, date of hearing/order made and the coram. Proceed to Fig 2.

Fig 1b. Indicate whether you wish to apply permission to commence Protection from Harassment Act proceeding in Family Courts. Proceed to Fig 3.

Fig 2. Provide pending/ongoing cases and related cases details (if any). You can add more cases by clicking “Add”.

Fig 3. Click on “Add Party Manually” to add the List of parties involved in the case.

Fig 4. Enter all the mandatory information. Once done, click on the “Save” button at the bottom of the page. There must be at least one Applicant and one Respondent under List of parties.

If you had selected:

• “Yes” in Fig 1 (Permission of Court Details), proceed to Fig 5a.

• “No” in Fig 1 (Permission of Court Details), proceed to Fig 5b.

Fig 5a. Select the “Type of Order” and the related sub-order. Complete the list of ‘Questionnaire’. Verify that the Act of Parliament / Subsidiary Legislation displayed corresponds to the selected Type of order and sub-order. Click on “Add” to include more legislation if required. Proceed to Fig 6.

Fig 5b. Indicate whether it is currently anticipated that the OA to be issued will be served out of Singapore. Click “Add” to include the Act of Parliament or Subsidiary Legislation. Proceed to Fig 6.

Fig 6. Enter all the other required details. Once done, click “Next” at the bottom-right corner of the page to proceed to Step 2: Form.

(2) Forms

Fig 7. Click on the icon to view the eForm. The eForm will be generated based on the details provided in the Case Information section. If you would like to file other supporting documents to the case, click “Add Document”.

Fig 8. You will be presented with an eForm to compose / edit. After verifying the draft, click “Save” and “Close”.

Fig 9. Click the upload icon to upload relevant documents.

Fig 10. Enter the necessary details on the deponent info. To upload documents, click “Browse Files to upload”. Select the relevant file from the browser dialog box, and click “Upload”.

Fig 11. The row of the eForm will be updated with new buttons.

• To change the information in the generated form, click “Previous” to return to the Case Information section and amend the information first. Then click the button in Step 2 to generate a new form with the updated details. Then click the “Confirm” button located at the bottom of the eForm.

Click on the “Next” button to proceed to Step 3: Admin Details.

(3) Admin Details

Fig 12. In Step 3: Admin Details, indicate any urgent processing, special request or waiver required. You can also opt to eServe the documents to another law firm.

(4) Submission

Fig 13. In Step 4: Submission, review all information and documents before submission. Upon acceptance / approval by Court, the documents will be sent to your eLitigation inbox.