Publication Type
Report
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
4-2012
Abstract
This is an opinion prepared for the Criminal Law Committee of the Law Society of Singapore on an arrested person’s right to legal counsel in Singapore. Specifically, it deals with the following: (1) it summarizes pertinent aspects of the law relating to the right to legal counsel in Singapore; (2) it surveys a number of ASEAN and Commonwealth jurisdictions to determine how long after apprehension the right to counsel is generally accorded to arrested persons, and compares the legal position in these jurisdictions to the situation in Singapore; and (3) it examines two rights ancillary to the right to legal counsel, namely, the right to be informed of the right to counsel, and the right to inform third parties such as family or friends of one’s arrest.
Keywords
Constitutional law, criminal proceedings, human rights, right to counsel, Singapore
Discipline
Asian Studies | Criminal Law | Law
First Page
1
Last Page
26
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
LEE, Jack Tsen-Ta.
Reforming the Right to Legal Counsel in Singapore. (2012). 1-26.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1101
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2042470