The limits of liberty: The crime of male same-sex conduct and the rights to life and personal liberty in Singapore: Lim Meng Suang v Attorney-General [2015] 1 SLR 26

• Main Author: LEE, Jack Tsen-Ta
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: criminalization of same-sex conduct; constitutional law; right to liberty; right to life; section 377A of the Penal Code (Singapore); Singapore; Asian Studies; Law and Society; Sexuality and the Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1923; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/3875/viewcontent/2016_46_1__HKLJ_47_70_LimitsofLiberty.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In Lim Meng Suang v Attorney-General (2014), the Singapore Court of Appeal held that s 377A of the Penal Code, which criminalises acts of “gross indecency” between men whether occurring in public or private, does not infringe either the rights to equality and equal protection guaranteed by Art 12(1)...