Equality and Singapore’s First Constitutional Challenges to the Criminalization of Male Homosexual Conduct

• Main Author: LEE, Jack Tsen-Ta
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: criminalization of homosexual conduct; right to equality; Singapore constitutional law; Asian Studies; Constitutional Law; Human Rights Law; Sexuality and the Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1525; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/3477/viewcontent/2015_16_1_2__APJHRL_150_185_Equalityand377A_postprint.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In 2013, i Lim Meng Suang and Kenneth Chee Mun-Leon v Attorney-General and Tan Eng Hong v Attorney-General, the High Court of Singapore delivered the first judgments in the jurisdiction considering the constitutionality of section 377A of the Penal Code, which criminalizes acts of gross indecency be...