The lingering question over the government’s embrace of new citizens
Lack of transparency and availability of data has long fuelled speculation on competition for jobs by new citizens. There is also a persistent, niggling question over this issue: How significant are the electoral votes of new citizens to the ruling People’s Action Party government? We know for a fact that in recent years,...
Pro bono lawyers
The other lawyer who has done this - doing pro bono work for 3 or 4 years to save a client - is Ravi MRavi who took on the case of Yong Vui Kong and ran a campaign to save him from death row. More than 10 years later, Vui Kong - then 19-years old - is alive today. Singapore's Misuse of Drugs Act is a flawed piece of legislation,...
The beginning of the end?
Liew Mun Leong In summarising his decision to acquit Parti Liyani, the Indonesian domestic worker on all four charges of theft, Chan Seng Onn J said: “… I allow Parti’s appeal against all four charges against her. I first observe that in the present case, which involved a voluminous number of items, the proper handling...
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