Stare Decisis in Singapore and Malaysia: A sad tale of the use and abuse of statutes
A study of the cases and literature with regard to stare decisis in Singapore and Malaysia will reveal at least one salient characteristic - the propensity, primarily of the Courts, to misread statutes and twist them (whether inadvertently or otherwise) in order to justify a particular conclusion. I...
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Main Author: | PHANG, Andrew B.L. |
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
1983
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Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4194 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/6152/viewcontent/4SingLRev155.pdf |
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