MUHD AIDIL & LAI FENG JUN
Third Year NUS Law, Deputy Editor, SLR & First Year NUS Law, Secretary, SLR respectively
The atrocities committed during the Second World War made the flagrant disregard for human life and dignity painfully apparent and it was thus decided that a universal declaration was much needed to protect human rights and to acknowledge it as a global concern – a move welcomed by a world recovering from the ravages of war. Come December 2008, 60 years will have passed since the vision of sanctified and protected …

(Read the Print Version: Juris Illuminae Vol. 5 Issue 2 Print Edition)
Liberalising Expression at Hong Lim Park: Speakers No Longer Cornered? by Hong Jia
The rules at Speakers’ Corner have been relaxed, interest groups have stepped up to take advantage of this, but how long this hype will last is questionable. (Read More)

You Can Take the Train, but Leave My Rights on It by Ang Hou Fu
There is a wide variety of content available on the Internet, but what can one do with it? Or rather, what is one legally …

AMOS TOH
First Year NUS Law, Youngest Life Theatre Awards Judge (in 2008) to date

The Public Entertainments (Amendment) Bill* passed in 2000 did not tread new political ground, adhering to the government’s longstanding doctrine of anticipatory self-defense against indeterminate evils, namely anything “indecent, immoral, offensive, subversive or improper”*. Among these haphazard amendments was a Demerit Point system aspiring to heighten “transparency in the administration of licence” but, as one Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) Mr. Zulkifi Bin Baharudin blithely pointed out, was “totally lacking in detail”. This article attempts …

Case Highlight on Public Prosecutor v. Sulaiman Damanik and Another [2008] SGDC 175 and Public Prosecutor v. Tang Wee Sung [2008] SGDC 262
CHERYL CHAI
First Year NUS Law, Associate Editor, SLR
In the first prosecution against illegal human organ trade in Singapore, two Indonesian men, Sulaiman Damanik and Toni, were convicted on 2 July 2008 of selling their kidneys to two Singaporeans, Tang Wee Sun and Juliana Soh respectively. District Judge Bala Reddy held that Sulaiman and Toni had committed an offence punishable under s. 14(1) read with Section 14(2) …

TEO CHIN GHEE
First Year NUS Law, Associate Editor, SLR

“Judicial independence doesn’t require judicial isolation.”
That was the essence of “In Conversation with Lord Woolf”, a talk by the former Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2000 to 2005, Lord Harry Kenneth Woolf, held in the Subordinate Courts on 10 September 2008, during which he shared his personal insights about his time on the Bench.
His book, The Pursuit of Justice,   launched on 27 March 2008 – has garnered praise from many reviewers such as The Law Society Gazette (UK).. …