Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
3-2024
Abstract
A trilogy of landmark Singapore Court of Appeal decisions has defined the landscape of constitutional equal protection doctrine in Singapore: Lim Meng Suang, Syed Suhail and Tan Seng Kee. While this trio of cases has laid the doctrinal foundation for the constitutional right to equality in Singapore, three loose ends remain for clarification. First, what is the relationship between the legal tests articulated in Syed Suhail and Lim Meng Suang? Second, what is the relationship between both steps in the Syed Suhail test? Third, what is the distinction between the Syed Suhail test and the common law judicial review ground of irrationality? This paper will seek to study how these loose ends may be best tied up through a close analysis of the decisions which the Singapore courts have handed down since the landmark trilogy was decided.
Discipline
Asian Studies | Jurisprudence | Law and Society
Research Areas
Public Law
Publication
Singapore Journal of Legal Studies
Volume
[2024]
First Page
32
Last Page
51
ISSN
0218-2173
Publisher
National University of Singapore
Citation
CHNG, Wei Yao, Kenny.
Loose ends in Singapore Equal Protection doctrine. (2024). Singapore Journal of Legal Studies. [2024], 32-51.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4511
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