An empirical study on the Singapore Court of Appeal’s citation of academic works: Reflections on the relationship between Singapore’s judiciary and academia

In the light of Singapore’s aspiration to be a centre of legal ideas in the region, it is opportune to examine the Singapore courts’ use of legal scholarship. This article provides a preliminary map of the Singapore Court of Appeal’s citation practices. It provides an overview of the Singapore Court...

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Main Authors: CHEAH, Wui Ling, GOH, Yihan
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sol_research-40952017-09-13T01:27:17Z An empirical study on the Singapore Court of Appeal’s citation of academic works: Reflections on the relationship between Singapore’s judiciary and academia CHEAH, Wui Ling GOH, Yihan In the light of Singapore’s aspiration to be a centre of legal ideas in the region, it is opportune to examine the Singapore courts’ use of legal scholarship. This article provides a preliminary map of the Singapore Court of Appeal’s citation practices. It provides an overview of the Singapore Court of Appeal’s use or citation of legal scholarship in its decisions over the past 50 years. It identifies and evaluates trends in the Singapore Court of Appeal’s citations of academic material and the types of academic material cited. 2017-03-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2143 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/4095/viewcontent/An_Empirical_Study_on_the_Singapore_Court.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Asian Studies Courts Legal History
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CHEAH, Wui Ling
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An empirical study on the Singapore Court of Appeal’s citation of academic works: Reflections on the relationship between Singapore’s judiciary and academia
description In the light of Singapore’s aspiration to be a centre of legal ideas in the region, it is opportune to examine the Singapore courts’ use of legal scholarship. This article provides a preliminary map of the Singapore Court of Appeal’s citation practices. It provides an overview of the Singapore Court of Appeal’s use or citation of legal scholarship in its decisions over the past 50 years. It identifies and evaluates trends in the Singapore Court of Appeal’s citations of academic material and the types of academic material cited.
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author CHEAH, Wui Ling
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title An empirical study on the Singapore Court of Appeal’s citation of academic works: Reflections on the relationship between Singapore’s judiciary and academia
title_short An empirical study on the Singapore Court of Appeal’s citation of academic works: Reflections on the relationship between Singapore’s judiciary and academia
title_full An empirical study on the Singapore Court of Appeal’s citation of academic works: Reflections on the relationship between Singapore’s judiciary and academia
title_fullStr An empirical study on the Singapore Court of Appeal’s citation of academic works: Reflections on the relationship between Singapore’s judiciary and academia
title_full_unstemmed An empirical study on the Singapore Court of Appeal’s citation of academic works: Reflections on the relationship between Singapore’s judiciary and academia
title_sort empirical study on the singapore court of appeal’s citation of academic works: reflections on the relationship between singapore’s judiciary and academia
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2017
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2143
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