The ideals of law in a health crisis: Singapore’s legislative responses to COVID‐19

Situations like the COVID-19 pandemic pose a dilemma. One might argue that such a crisis is a time for people to sacrifice their legal rights for the common good and submit to heavy restrictions on one’s liberties, surrendering individual liberties to a benevolent, though powerful, state. On the oth...

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Main Author:	ONG, Benjamin Joshua
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Subjects:	principle of proportionality freedom of movement quarantines Infectious Diseases Act pandemics COVID-19 Singapore Asian Studies Health Law and Policy Public Health
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description	Situations like the COVID-19 pandemic pose a dilemma. One might argue that such a crisis is a time for people to sacrifice their legal rights for the common good and submit to heavy restrictions on one’s liberties, surrendering individual liberties to a benevolent, though powerful, state. On the other hand, for every situation in history where an emergency has required people to accept such restrictions, there are many more situations in which an unscrupulous government has used a pretend emergency, or a real but exaggerated one, as an excuse to arrogate to himself sweeping arbitrary powers and refuse to let go.
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title	The ideals of law in a health crisis: Singapore’s legislative responses to COVID‐19
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The ideals of law in a health crisis: Singapore’s legislative responses to COVID‐19

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