THAM CHANG XIAN
First Year NUS Law
Tokenism or not, the lifting of the restrictions on the Speakers’ Corner in Hong Lim Park is indeed a watershed event. The baby steps towards a freer means of expression have been taken, and this can only be a good thing. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step and these small shuffles represent at least an intention of moving in the right direction.
The irksome part however is still the not-quite-invisible hand of the government pulling the marionette strings, despite the transfer …

A case commentary on Mercurine Pte Ltd v. Canberra Development Pte Ltd [2008] SGCA 38.
MUHAMMAD AIDIL
Third Year NUS Law, Deputy Chief Editor, SLR
Uniquely Singapore. Or so it seems in Mercurine, where the Court of Appeal (“CA”) departed from its stricter “real prospect of success” test to one which asks whether the defendant can establish a prima facie defence in that there are triable issues -an approach that differs from other common law jurisdictions. The facts of the case are straightforward. The respondent obtained an O13 default judgment against the appellant …

KRYSTLE CHIANG
Second Year NUS Law, Associate Editor, SLR
It’s old news now – Mr. Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam has passed on.
The first time I saw him was just this year, in the bar room of the Subordinate Courts. He was completely alone, yet confidently at ease, taking leisurely sips from his coffee mug while perusing the day’s news. I remember being envious of his ability to be disaffected by the socialising going on around him, while I was discomfited by the very same surroundings. An intern then, I felt like …

DANIEL GAW
First Year NUS Law

It happens.
We throw a dice, draw a Chance card and find ourselves in jail for no apparent reason, deprived of the $200 we usually get when we pass ‘Go’.
In Monopoly, the worst that could happen is losing three turns and $50. But in reality, imprisonment is a grave matter and can take away years of freedom from a person. Thus, in order to ensure that no one is denied his freedom without valid reason, Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) …

NG SOOK ZHEN
Second Year NUS Law, Juris Editor, SLR

The right to privacy has often been regarded as insubstantial in the face of economic growth and communitarian values. In his 1986 National Day Rally speech, the then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew commented: “I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yet, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn’t be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn’t be here, we would not have made economic progress.”
Fast-forward …