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Freedom Of Speech And Contempt By Scandalizing The Court In Singapore, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee
Freedom Of Speech And Contempt By Scandalizing The Court In Singapore, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
The offence of scandalizing the court, a form of contempt of court, is regarded as obsolete in the United Kingdom. However, it continues to be imposed in other Commonwealth nations and remains very much alive in Singapore, having been applied in a crop of cases between 2006 and 2009. This short commentary examines one of these cases, Attorney-General v Hertzberg and others [2009] 1 Singapore Law Reports 1103, which has generated worldwide interest as it arose out of articles published in the Wall Street Journal Asia. In Hertzberg, the High Court of Singapore held that utterances by an alleged contemnor …
The Text Through Time, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee
The Text Through Time, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
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Make The Implicit Explicit: Affirming Right To Vote In The Constitution Would Pre-Empt The Possibility Of Abuse By Future Govts, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee
Make The Implicit Explicit: Affirming Right To Vote In The Constitution Would Pre-Empt The Possibility Of Abuse By Future Govts, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
There are sound reasons to set out explicitly and entrench in the Singapore Constitution the right to vote and key elements of the way elections are held. While a future government might not remove them entirely, it might derogate from them to the extent that they become unrecognizable.