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The legal system of Singapore is based on the English common law system. Major areas of law – particularly administrative law , contract law , equity and trust law , property law and tort law – are largely judge-made , though certain aspects have now been modified to some extent by statutes.
In September 2008, a Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) survey reported Hong Kong and Singapore have the best judicial systems in Asia, with Indonesia and Vietnam the worst: Hong Kong's judicial system scored 1.45 on the scale (zero representing the best performance and 10 the worst); Singapore with a grade of 1.92, followed by ...
However, as a result of Singapore's colonial heritage, English judicial precedents continue to exercise a strong influence on the legal system and are regarded as highly persuasive, particularly as regards the development of the common law, and the interpretation of English statutes applicable in Singapore and Singapore statutes modelled on ...
Chan, Sek Keong (December 2012), "The Courts and the 'Rule of Law' in Singapore", Singapore Journal of Legal Studies: 209– 231, SSRN 2242727. Hall, Stephen (1995), "Preventive Detention, Political Rights and the Rule of Law in Singapore and Malaysia", Lawasia: Journal of the Law Association for Asia and the Western Pacific: 14– 62.
A figure of Lady Justice in the centre of Rodolfo Nolli's 1939 sculpture Allegory of Justice in the tympanum of the Old Supreme Court Building. Judicial independence is protected by Singapore's Constitution, statutes such as the State Courts Act and Supreme Court of Judicature Act, and the common law.
The Constitution of the Republic of Singapore is the supreme law of Singapore.A written constitution, the text which took effect on 9 August 1965 is derived from the Constitution of the State of Singapore 1963, provisions of the Federal Constitution of Malaysia made applicable to Singapore by the Republic of Singapore Independence Act 1965 (No. 9 of 1965, 1985 Rev. Ed.), and the Republic of ...
It is a 20th-century product of English administrative law, which Singapore inherited at independence. [1] Like the English system, Singapore does not have a separate system of specialist administrative courts as is the case in most civil law jurisdictions. [2]
Although the legal system of Singapore is a common law system, the criminal law of Singapore is largely statutory in nature and historically derives largely from the ...