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The Internal Security Act 1960 (ISA) of Singapore is a statute that grants the executive power to enforce preventive detention, prevent subversion, suppress organized violence against persons and property, and do other things incidental to the internal security of Singapore.
Another non-justiciable area is where the legislature has made it clear that a particular question is reserved to the executive to answer, as in Singapore Airlines which noted that section 18 of the State Immunity Act [157] requires those claiming sovereign immunity from lawsuits to first obtain certification from the Singapore Government. In ...
The right to be heard was found to have been contravened in Kay Swee Pin v. Singapore Island Country Club (2008). [191] The appellant had applied to be a member of the respondent club, and had declared in the application form that a certain individual was her spouse.
Calls and conversations may be recorded by any active participant, with no requirement to make other parties aware of the recording. But forwarding or playing calls considered private is illegal. The Denmark Data Protection Authority (DPA) ruled on April 11, 2019, that affirmative consent is required when companies record customer telephone ...
A CIA officer working under the cover of an embassy First Secretary was declared persona-non-grata and expelled from Singapore. Lee was personally offered with US$3.3 million to him and his political party, People's Action Party , to cover up the matter but he rejected it and demanded US$33 million in economic aid instead.
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (6 July 1781 – 5 July 1826). Modern Singapore was founded on 6 February 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles, an officer of the British East India Company and Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen, in an attempt to counter Dutch domination of trade in the East.
British constitutional theorist Albert Venn Dicey is often associated with the thin conception of the rule of law. The "thin" conception rule of law advocates the view that the rule of law is fulfilled by adhering to formal procedures and requirements, and that the normative content of law concerns substantive legal issue separate from the rule of law.
The Supreme Court of Singapore is a set of courts in Singapore, comprising the Court of Appeal and the High Court.It hears both civil and criminal matters. The Court of Appeal hears both civil and criminal appeals from the High Court.