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

JurisdictionSingapore
CourtCourt of Appeal (Singapore)
Judgment Date08 December 1988
Docket NumberCivil Appeals Nos 63, 64, 65 and 81 of 1988
Date08 December 1988

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  • 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......
  • 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......
  • 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......
  • 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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