Freedom of Speech and Contempt by Scandalizing the Court in Singapore

• Main Author: LEE, Jack Tsen-Ta
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• Subjects: Constitutional law; contempt of court; freedom of speech and expression; scandalizing the court; Asian Studies; Constitutional Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/10; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/1009/viewcontent/IALS_ScandalizingtheCourtinSingapore_20090728.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The offence of scandalizing the court, a form of contempt of court, is regarded as obsolete in the United Kingdom. However, it continues to be imposed in other Commonwealth nations and remains very much alive in Singapore, having been applied in a crop of cases between 2006 and 2009. This short comm...