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Admissible evidence
Admissible evidence, in a court of law, is any testimonial, documentary, or tangible evidence that may be introduced to a factfinder—usually a judge or jury—to establish or to bolster a point put forth by a party to the proceeding.
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American Journal of Comparative Law
The American Journal of Comparative Law (AJCL) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed law journal devoted to comparative and transnational legal studies—including, among other subjects, comparative law, comparative and transnational legal history and theory, private international law and conflict of laws, and the study of legal systems, cultures, and traditions other than those of the United States.
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Argumentum a fortiori
Argumentum a fortiori (Latin: "from a/the stronger ") is a form of argumentation which draws upon existing confidence in a proposition to argue in favor of a second proposition that is held to be implicit in the first.
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Article 12 of the Constitution of Singapore
Article 12 of the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore guarantees to all persons equality before the law and equal protection of the law.
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Attorney-General of Singapore
The Attorney-General of the Republic of Singapore (AG) is the legal adviser to the Government of Singapore and the Public Prosecutor (PP).
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Bill (law)
A bill is proposed legislation under consideration by a legislature.
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California Law Review
The California Law Review is a law journal published by the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
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Chief Justice
The Chief Justice is the presiding member of a supreme court in any of many countries with a justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of Singapore, the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, the Supreme Court of Japan, the Supreme Court of India, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the Supreme Court of Nepal, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Supreme Court of Ireland, the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the High Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of the United States, and provincial or state supreme courts.
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Chief Justice of Singapore
The Chief Justice of Singapore is the highest post in the judicial system of Singapore.
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Chng Suan Tze v Minister for Home Affairs
Chng Suan Tze v. Minister for Home Affairs is a seminal case in administrative law decided by the Court of Appeal of Singapore in 1988.
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Comity
In law, comity is "a practice among different political entities (as countries, states, or courts of different jurisdictions)" involving the "mutual recognition of legislative, executive, and judicial acts.".
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Common law
Common law (also known as judicial precedent or judge-made law, or case law) is that body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals.
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Commonwealth Law Reports
The Commonwealth Law Reports (CLR) are the authorised reports of decisions of the High Court of Australia.
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Constitution of India
The Constitution of India is the supreme law of India.
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Constitution of Malaysia
The Federal Constitution of Malaya, which came into force in 1957, is the supreme law of Malaya.
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Constitution of Singapore
The Constitution of the Republic of Singapore is the supreme law of Singapore.
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Constitutional law
Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in federal countries such as the United States and Canada, the relationship between the central government and state, provincial, or territorial governments.
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Court of Appeal of Singapore
The Court of Appeal of the Republic of Singapore is the nation's highest court and its court of final appeal.
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Crown colony
Crown colony, dependent territory and royal colony are terms used to describe the administration of United Kingdom overseas territories that are controlled by the British Government.
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Customary international law
Customary international law is an aspect of international law involving the principle of custom.
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Dominion
Dominions were semi-independent polities under the British Crown, constituting the British Empire, beginning with Canadian Confederation in 1867.
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Extraterritorial jurisdiction
Extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) is the legal ability of a government to exercise authority beyond its normal boundaries.
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Federal Court of Malaysia
The Federal Court of Malaysia (Mahkamah Persekutuan Malaysia) is the highest court and the final appellate court in Malaysia.
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GIC Private Limited
GIC Private Limited, formerly known as Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, is a sovereign wealth fund established by the Government of Singapore in 1981 to manage Singapore's foreign reserves.
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Government of Singapore
The Government of Singapore is defined by the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore to mean the Executive branch of government, which is made up of the President and the Cabinet of Singapore.
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High Court (Singapore)
The High Court of the Republic of Singapore is the lower division of the Supreme Court of Singapore, the upper being the Court of Appeal.
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High Courts (Malaysia)
The High Courts in Malaysia are the third-highest courts in the hierarchy of courts, after the Federal Court and the Court of Appeal.
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International law
International law is the set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between states and between nations.
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Joseph Tussman
Joseph Tussman (4 December 1914 – 21 October 2005) was an American educator.
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Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) is the highest court of appeal for certain British territories and Commonwealth countries.
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Kenneth Diplock, Baron Diplock
William John Kenneth Diplock, Baron Diplock, QC (8 December 1907 – 14 October 1985) was a British judge and Law Lord.
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LexisNexis
LexisNexis Group is a corporation providing computer-assisted legal research as well as business research and risk management services.
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Magna Carta
Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for "the Great Charter of the Liberties"), commonly called Magna Carta (also Magna Charta; "Great Charter"), is a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.
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Ministry of Home Affairs (Singapore)
The Ministry of Home Affairs (Abbreviation: MHA; Kementerian Ehwal Dalam Negeri; Chinese: 内政部; உள்துறை அமைச்சு) is a ministry of the Government of Singapore responsible for national security, public safety, civil defence, border control, and immigration.
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Mohamed Azmi Mohamed
Tun Azmi bin Mohamed was the former Lord President of the Federal Court.
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Motion (legal)
In United States law, a motion is a procedural device to bring a limited, contested issue before a court for decision.
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Municipal law
Municipal law is the national, domestic, or internal law of a sovereign state defined in opposition to international law.
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Obiter dictum
Obiter dictum (usually used in the plural, obiter dicta) is Latin phrase meaning "by the way", that is, a remark in a judgment that is "said in passing".
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Old Supreme Court Building, Singapore
The Old Supreme Court Building (Bangunan Mahkamah Agung Lama, Chinese: 最高法院大厦) is the former courthouse of the Supreme Court of Singapore, before it moved out of the building and commenced operations in the new building on 20 June 2005.
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Ong Ah Chuan v Public Prosecutor
Ong Ah Chuan v. Public Prosecutor is a landmark decision delivered in 1980 by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on appeal from Singapore which deals with the constitutionality of section 15 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 (No. 5 of 1973) (now section 17 of the) ("MDA"), and the mandatory death penalty by the Act for certain offences.
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Parliament of Malaysia
The Parliament of Malaysia (Parlimen Malaysia) is the national legislature of Malaysia, based on the Westminster system.
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Parliament of Singapore
The Parliament of the Republic of Singapore and the President jointly make up the legislature of Singapore, which is based on the Westminster system.
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Parliamentary sovereignty
Parliamentary sovereignty (also called parliamentary supremacy or legislative supremacy) is a concept in the constitutional law of some parliamentary democracies.
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Permanent residency
Permanent residency refers to a person's resident status in a country of which they are not a citizen.
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Plenary power
A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations.
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Preamble
A preamble is an introductory and expressionary statement in a document that explains the document's purpose and underlying philosophy.
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Presumption of constitutionality
A presumption of constitutionality shifts the burden of proof from the government to the citizen, requiring them to prove that a statute is unconstitutional.
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Presupposition
In the branch of linguistics known as pragmatics, a presupposition (or PSP) is an implicit assumption about the world or background belief relating to an utterance whose truth is taken for granted in discourse.
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Purposive approach
The purposive approach (sometimes referred to as purposivism, purposive construction, purposive interpretation, or the modern principle in construction) is an approach to statutory and constitutional interpretation under which common law courts interpret an enactment (a statute, part of a statute, or a clause of a constitution) within the context of the law's purpose.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
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Semantics
Semantics (from σημαντικός sēmantikós, "significant") is the linguistic and philosophical study of meaning, in language, programming languages, formal logics, and semiotics.
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Singapore civil service
The Singapore civil service is the set of civil servants working for the government of Singapore.
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Singaporean nationality law
Singaporean nationality law is derived from the Constitution of Singapore and is based on jus sanguinis and a modified form of jus soli.
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State Courts of Singapore
The State Courts of Singapore (Formerly the Subordinate Courts) are one of the two tiers of the court system in Singapore, the other tier being the Supreme Court.
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Statutory interpretation
Statutory interpretation is the process by which courts interpret and apply legislation.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.
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Tautology (rhetoric)
In rhetoric, a tautology (from Greek ταὐτός, "the same" and λόγος, "word/idea") is an argument which repeats an assertion using different phrasing.
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Thio Li-ann
Thio Li-ann (born 10 March 1968) is a Singaporean law professor at the National University of Singapore.
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Ultra vires
Ultra vires is a Latin phrase meaning "beyond the powers".
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Venn diagram
A Venn diagram (also called primary diagram, set diagram or logic diagram) is a diagram that shows all possible logical relations between a finite collection of different sets.
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Yong Pung How
Yong Pung How (born 11 April 1926),, is a former Chief Justice of Singapore, serving from 1990 to 2006.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Prosecutor_v_Taw_Cheng_Kong
