Tag Archives: section 377a

By Ariffin Sha Does Article 12 of our Constitution guarantee equality before the law for the LGBT Community? The answer to that might seem like a straightforward and unequivocal no. Even more in the light of the Court of Appeals’ decision to uphold Section 377Aa of the Penal Code in a Constitutional Challenge. Section 377A of the Penal Code is …

Media Release Court rules that the original challenge to s377A will be heard in up-coming appeal SINGAPORE, October 10, 2013– Today the Court of Appeal ordered that Mr Tan Eng Hong, who has been pursuing a Constitutional Challenge to Singapore’s anti-gay law for more than three years, should be allowed to appear before the Court with Mr Kenneth Lim and Mr …

Sent in via Readers’ Contribution NOTE: This is a strictly legal response to s.377A, transcending the pointless clutter of morality, religion, liberty, discrimination, etc, which so many have assumed to have a place in judicial reasoning. Briefly, arguments about equality and discrimination do not influence legality simply because: Who is anyone to say one person’s version of morality/discrimination/… supersedes another’s? …

By Harold Seah   An argument over morality is often the most heated but least understood; people retreat into individual comfort zones, clinging fast to familiar yardsticks of right-and-wrong, causing what might have been an intelligent, informed debate has to degenerate into a fundamentalist free-for-all. Such as become of the debate over whether to repeal or to retain Section 377A …

Case of Boh Zhuang Min was a good opportunity for AG to test S377A - but he did not. Ravi Philemon.

His record speaks for itself. TOC Editorial.

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