Chng Suan Tze v Minister of Home Affairs and Others and other appeals

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date08 December 1988
Date08 December 1988
Docket NumberCivil Appeals Nos 63, 64, 65 and 81 of 1988
CourtCourt of Appeal (Singapore)
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  • Teo Soh Lung v Minister for Home Affairs and Others
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 25 April 1989
    ...at [55] and [58].] Anisminic Ltd v Foreign Compensation Commission [1969] 2 AC 147 (distd) Chng Suan Tze v Minister of Home Affairs [1988] 2 SLR (R) 525; [1988] SLR 132 (distd) Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service [1985] AC 374; [1984] 3 All ER 935 (folld) Duport......
  • Cheng Vincent v Minister for Home Affairs and Others
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 31 January 1990
    ... ... He said he and other senior ISD officers regularly held discussions with the applicant with a ... In Chng Suan Tze v Minister of Home Affairs & Ors and other appeals [1989] 1 ... ...
  • Ketua Polis Negara & Other Appeals; Mohamad Ezam bin Mohd Noor
    • Malaysia
    • Federal Court (Malaysia)
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  • Chan Hiang Leng Colin and Others v Public Prosecutor
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 15 September 1994
    ... ... have little or no association with other Christian denominations. Theologically, they ... In a press statement from the Ministry of Home Affairs, it was stated that: ... as a society was ordered by the Minister for Home Affairs pursuant to his powers under s ... who challenged them on such grounds ( Chng Suan Tze v Minister for Home Affairs ). The ... ...
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30 books & journal articles
  • Administrative and Constitutional Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...is no ouster clause under the CLTPA. The High Court took note that the Court of Appeal in Chng Suan Tze v Minister for Home Affairs[1988] 2 SLR(R) 525 (‘Chng’) had rejected the subjective discretion test in relation to the Internal Security Act (Cap 143, 1985 Rev Ed) (‘ISA’) detention order......
  • WALKING THE TIGHTROPE BETWEEN LEGALITY AND LEGITIMACY
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2017, December 2017
    • 1 December 2017
    ...done within legal limits … Tan Seet Eng v Attorney-General[2016] 1 SLR 779 at [1]; see also Chng Suan Tze v Minister for Home Affairs[1988] 2 SLR(R) 525; Vellama d/o Marie Muthu v Attorney-General[2013] 4 SLR 1; Ong Ah Chuan v Public Prosecutor[1979–1980] SLR(R) 710. 18Eg, Adelaide Co of Je......
  • LOCALISING ADMINISTRATIVE LAW IN SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2017, December 2017
    • 1 December 2017
    ...competition between all the different facets of the separation of powers and rule of law. 5Chng Suan Tze v Minister for Home Affairs[1988] 2 SLR(R) 525 at [86]. 6 Daniel Tan, “An Analysis of Substantive Review in Singaporean Administrative Law” (2013) 25 SAcLJ 296 at paras 62–70. 7Lee Hsien......
  • PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION AND THE LEGAL LIMITS IN SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2013, December 2013
    • 1 December 2013
    ...239. 35Law Society of Singapore v Tan Guat Neo Phyllis[2008] 2 SLR(R) 239 at [149] (citing Chng Suan Tze v Minister for Home Affairs[1988] 2 SLR(R) 525). 36 Abuse of process referred to the use of the judicial process for “a purpose for which it is not intended or in circumstances where he ......
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