Teo Soh Lung v Minister for Home Affairs
Teo Soh Lung v Minister for Home Affairs is the name of two cases of the Singapore courts, a High Court decision delivered in 1989 and the 1990 judgment in the appeal from that decision to the Court of Appeal. The cases were concerned with the constitutionality of amendments made to the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore and the Internal Security Act ("ISA") in 1989. The latter statute authorizes detention without trial on security grounds. These amendments had the effect of changing the law on judicial review of executive discretion under the ISA by re-establishing the subjective test enunciated in the 1971 High Court decision Lee Mau Seng v Minister for Home Affairs which had been overruled in 1988 by Chng Suan Tze v Minister for Home Affairs, and limiting the right of judicial re
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Teo Soh Lung v Minister for Home Affairs
Teo Soh Lung v Minister for Home Affairs is the name of two cases of the Singapore courts, a High Court decision delivered in 1989 and the 1990 judgment in the appeal from that decision to the Court of Appeal. The cases were concerned with the constitutionality of amendments made to the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore and the Internal Security Act ("ISA") in 1989. The latter statute authorizes detention without trial on security grounds. These amendments had the effect of changing the law on judicial review of executive discretion under the ISA by re-establishing the subjective test enunciated in the 1971 High Court decision Lee Mau Seng v Minister for Home Affairs which had been overruled in 1988 by Chng Suan Tze v Minister for Home Affairs, and limiting the right of judicial re
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Teo Soh Lung v Minister for Ho ...... structure of the Constitution.
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[1989] 1 S.L.R. 461, H.C.; [1990] 1 S.L.R. 347, C.A.
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High Court of Singapore and
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Teo Soh Lung v Minister for Home Affairs and others
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Frederick Arthur Chua J. ; Wee Chong Jin C.J., Thean Lip Ping J. and Chan Sek Keong J.
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Teo Soh Lung v. Minister for H ...... fairs [1990] 1 S.L.R. 38, H.C.
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Teo Soh Lung v Minister for Ho ...... iting the right of judicial re
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