NS deferment: It’s all about equity

In a commentary, SMU Associate Professor of Law Eugene Tan believed that the recent national service (NS) deferment issue regarding 17-year-old footballer Benjamin James Davis is all about equity and that the Ministry of Defence is right in ensuring that enlistment criteria are fair and applicable t...

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Main Author: EUGENE, Tan K. B.
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sol_research-57942022-02-17T17:08:40Z NS deferment: It’s all about equity EUGENE, Tan K. B. In a commentary, SMU Associate Professor of Law Eugene Tan believed that the recent national service (NS) deferment issue regarding 17-year-old footballer Benjamin James Davis is all about equity and that the Ministry of Defence is right in ensuring that enlistment criteria are fair and applicable to all male citizens. He added that such a cause has to be closely guarded and anything less would result in NS losing public support. 2018-08-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3836 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/5794/viewcontent/20180809_STPT_Opinion_A32_31x20.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 Defense and Security Studies
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EUGENE, Tan K. B.
NS deferment: It’s all about equity
description In a commentary, SMU Associate Professor of Law Eugene Tan believed that the recent national service (NS) deferment issue regarding 17-year-old footballer Benjamin James Davis is all about equity and that the Ministry of Defence is right in ensuring that enlistment criteria are fair and applicable to all male citizens. He added that such a cause has to be closely guarded and anything less would result in NS losing public support.
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title NS deferment: It’s all about equity
title_short NS deferment: It’s all about equity
title_full NS deferment: It’s all about equity
title_fullStr NS deferment: It’s all about equity
title_full_unstemmed NS deferment: It’s all about equity
title_sort ns deferment: it’s all about equity
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2018
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3836
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/5794/viewcontent/20180809_STPT_Opinion_A32_31x20.pdf
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