Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
9-2020
Abstract
Situations like the COVID-19 pandemic pose a dilemma. One might argue that such a crisis is a time for people to sacrifice their legal rights for the common good and submit to heavy restrictions on one’s liberties, surrendering individual liberties to a benevolent, though powerful, state. On the other hand, for every situation in history where an emergency has required people to accept such restrictions, there are many more situations in which an unscrupulous government has used a pretend emergency, or a real but exaggerated one, as an excuse to arrogate to himself sweeping arbitrary powers and refuse to let go.
Keywords
principle of proportionality, freedom of movement, quarantines, Infectious Diseases Act, pandemics, COVID-19, Singapore
Discipline
Asian Studies | Health Law and Policy | Public Health
Research Areas
Public Interest Law, Community and Social Justice
Publication
Law and COVID-19
First Page
147
Last Page
160
ISBN
9781467396172
Publisher
School of Law, Singapore Management University
City or Country
Singapore
Embargo Period
4-19-2021
Citation
ONG, Benjamin Joshua.
The ideals of law in a health crisis: Singapore’s legislative responses to COVID‐19. (2020). Law and COVID-19. 147-160.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3236
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3686357