Dear Law School and friends,
After the controversy surrounding the November 2009 issue, Juris has decided that we will no longer publish anything sensational. Hence, on behalf of the Juris team, I apologise for this month’s boring choice of “Sex”.
Actually, this is just what happens when you allow young male Associate Editors to choose the theme which they would be most interested in writing on.
I initially balked. However, the guys had a point. We predict that this shall be the issue with the highest number of views, ever. (What, you thought this was on …

NG JUNYI (Juris Sub-Editor)

The Codified Presumption of Legitimacy
The presumption of legitimacy as codified by Sir James Fitzjames Stephen was transplanted to Singapore through the enactment of the Evidence Ordinance in 1890. This provision has survived unaltered till the present date as Section 114 of the Singapore Evidence Act:

The fact that any person was born during the continuance of a valid marriage between his mother and any man, or within 280 days after its dissolution, the mother remaining unmarried, shall be conclusive proof that he is the legitimate son of that …

SIM JUNHUI (Juris Sub-Editor)
It has been said that the sins of the father are visited upon his children. Differently put, the child is punished for the acts or activities of his father. An example of the law apparently manifesting this philosophy of filial punishment may be found in the Inheritance (Family Provision) Act (Cap, 138, 1985 Rev. Ed. Sing.) [IFPA], relating, inter alia, to the maintenance of children after the death of a parent. According to the Court of Appeal, the Act punishes illegitimate children for their parents’ indiscretions by …

By Lynette Lim
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
It’s been four months since I left Singapore for a 24-hour plane ride halfway across the world. Four months later I feel like I’ve grown more than I have in any year in Singapore; four months later I feel like I’ve found a second home here.
Toronto is a big city that feels like the suburbs to me. The pace of life is markedly slower …

By Ng Sook Zhen
I am doing a social experiment in Fukuoka.
I place an umbrella on my bike, and see if anyone steals it. And I smile when I get back to my bike and still see it hanging. It has been 3 weeks. It’s still there, and it was raining today.
Perhaps that sums up my emotions of Japan. I’m mystified.
(Like all law students, I relish in headings.)
Language.
??!
Culture.
I’m puzzled by the fact that a bunch of girls from a different university would drag me home to their apartment to …