Police must have very good reason to suspect notebook contained evidence
I refer to the 19 Oct 2014 Straits Times report “Police have the right to hold notebook”. The police explained that Section 35(1)(c) of the Criminal Procedure Code empowers the police with the right to seize any item suspected to constitute evidence of an offence. That means the police must have suspected that Han Hui Hui’s...
Does Nparks have unfettered discretionary powers to impose bans?
[Article first appeared in The Online Citizen, 23 Oct] By Andrew Loh The Nparks’ withdrawal of its approval for activist Han Hui Hui to hold a Speakers’ Corner event on 25 October smacks of arbitrary enforcement of the power vested in the Commissioner of Nparks. The first thing you noticed about the letter the Nparks sent...
Singapore’s comical President’s UK debut
Nowhere in the democratic world can we see the preposterous spectacle of a president elected by 34 per cent of the electorate. The proper and democratic president should have been decided by a run-off election when it was obvious that there was no convincing elected candidate with over 50 per cent of the vote at the last presidential...
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