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

• Main Author: ONG, Benjamin Joshua
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: principle of proportionality; freedom of movement; quarantines; Infectious Diseases Act; pandemics; COVID-19; Singapore; Asian Studies; Health Law and Policy; Public Health
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3236; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/5193/viewcontent/The_ideals_of_law_in_a_health_crisis.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...