Re Singh Kalpanath

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date17 March 1992
Date17 March 1992
Docket NumberOriginating Motion No 44 of 1990
CourtHigh Court (Singapore)
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25 cases
  • Tan Tiang Hin Jerry v Singapore Medical Council
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • March 23, 2000
    ... ... Next, the case of Re Singh Kalpanath [1992] 2 SLR 639 ... There, the impartiality of the tribunal was impugned on the ground that the chairman of the Disciplinary Committee ... ...
  • De Souza Lionel Jerome v Attorney General
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • November 25, 1992
    ... ... After having arrived at this conclusion, I had the advantage of reading the judgment in Re Singh Kalpanath [1992] 2 SLR 639 the report of which had just been published. Chan Sek Keong J (as he then was) adopted Leggatt J`s reformulation of ... ...
  • Re the Medical Registration Act (Cap 174)
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • October 29, 1993
    ... ... to be applied where bias or prejudice of a disciplinary tribunal is questioned was comprehensively discussed in two recent cases, namely, Re Singh Kalpanath 2 at pp 663 to 671 and De Souza Lionel Jerome v A-G 3 at pp 886 to 893. They are admirably summarized in the respective head notes. In ... ...
  • Wong Keng Leong Rayney v Law Society of Singapore
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • October 5, 2006
    ...UK) (distd) Serif Systems Ltd, Re (15 April 1997) (Queen's Bench Division (Crown Office List), UK) (folld) Singh Kalpanath, Re [1992] 1 SLR (R) 595; [1992] 2 SLR 639 (refd) SM Summit Holdings Ltd v PP [1997] 3 SLR (R) 138; [1997] 3 SLR 922 (folld) Whitehouse Holdings Pte Ltd v Law Society o......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Administrative and Constitutional Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2006, December 2006
    • December 1, 2006
    ...‘reasonable suspicion test’ (at [78]), as was applied in cases such as De Souza Lionel Jerome v AG[1993] 1 SLR 882 and Re Singh Kalpanath[1992] 2 SLR 639 at 666, [82] where Chan Sek Keong J (as he then was) said that the concern was with ‘whether a reasonable man without any inside knowledg......
  • Administrative and Constitutional Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2005, December 2005
    • December 1, 2005
    ...also noted there were Singapore decisions which treated both tests as interchangeable or not substantively different: Re Singh Kalpanath[1992] 2 SLR 639 and Re the Medical Registration Act (Cap 174)[1994] 1 SLR 176. Phang JC noted (at [19]) that parties to the present proceedings accepted t......
  • Legal Profession
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2006, December 2006
    • December 1, 2006
    ...process which emerges from the above discussion, an erroneous impression may have been created by the decision in Re Singh Kalpanath [1992] 2 SLR 639. There, the availability of judicial review without qualification was aired, but it would be exaggerated to say that it indicates that as a g......