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From the Chief Editor
So this is the new year! Some may dread returning to the mugging of yore, but for many, especially our freshies who have yet to be broken into the routine of legal study, it is a year filled with new and exciting opportunities.
The Singapore Law Review would not be starting the year with a whimper – we bring to our fellow friends in law school our very first International Writing Symposium. It promises to be an eye-opening experience for those who attend with a broad range of …

Recent events have brought into sharp focus the difference in attitudes towards screening television programmes involving homosexuals in two Asian countries: Hong Kong and Singapore.
When Hong Kong TV station RTHK screened a programme about homosexuality in July last year, it earned a stern warning from Hong Kong’s Broadcasting Authority, for allegedly breaching local broadcasting regulations. However in May this year, Hong Kong’s Court of First Instance quashed the Authority’s decision.
Shot in documentary style, the programme “focused on the day-to-day lives of two gay couples, looking to the difficulties encountered …

As students gather come August 25th for the launch of the inaugural International Writing Symposium, they will witness the Singapore Law Review (“SLR”) takes one giant step  - that is, if the student editorial board of SLR gets its way.
Just a year ago, SLR decided to incorporate the symposium into its annual SLR Writing Competition for the first time, a bold move, albeit with a sound objective of giving contestants a chance to defend and discuss their papers under the scrutiny of distinguished judges.
A year on, SLR took another …

“Regardless of race, language or religion…”  Our national pledge reminds us constantly that discrimination is not tolerated in Singapore. Yet, pry further into a statute as basic as the Constitution and we find that discrimination is enshrined in the law.
In direct defiance to our pledge, for instance, is s152 of the Constitution which title reads: “Minorities and special position of Malays.”
In s152(2),  the law exerts: “The Government shall exercise its functions in such manner as to recognise the special position of the Malays, who are the indigenous …