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10 - Singapore

A statist legal laboratory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2011

By
Kevin Y L Tan
Edited by
E. Ann Black  and
Gary F. Bell
Kevin Y L Tan
Affiliation:
National University of Singapore
E. Ann Black
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Gary F. Bell
Affiliation:
National University of Singapore
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Summary

Introduction

The former British colony of Singapore is an island republic occupying an area of 660 square kilometres at the southern tip of the Malayan peninsula. A tropical island just north of the Equator, it has a permanent population of 4.8 million with three main ethnic groups: Chinese (77%), Malay (14%), Indian (7.6%) and others (1.4%). It has a sophisticated and well-developed state capitalist mixed economy in that the state controls and owns firms comprising at least 60 per cent of the country's GDP through various government entities, companies and sovereign wealth funds. Singapore being an island with no natural resources, its economy has traditionally been dependent on entrepot trade and manufacturing of high value-added products, such as computer disk drives and wafers. It is also the busiest port in the world.

Historical context

Pre-colonial Singapore

Singapore's history prior to the 14th century is sketchy. By the 1300s it was a trading centre of considerable importance. At various times, Singapore came under the influence of the Sumatra-based Sri Vijaya Empire (200–c 1400); the Java-based Majapahit Empire (1478–1520s) and the Malacca Sultanate (at Malacca and later at Johore and Riau). After the Portuguese burned down a Malay outpost on the island in 1617, Singapore was most probably abandoned and became a sparsely populated fishing village and pirate outpost. We know little of what law was administered in Singapore during this early period.

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Law and Legal Institutions of Asia
Traditions, Adaptations and Innovations
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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Li-ann, Thio, ‘An “i” for an “I”: Singapore's Communitarian Model of Constitutional Adjudication’, Hong Kong Law Journal, vol. 27, 1997, p. 152Google Scholar
Li-ann, Thio, ‘Trends in Constitutional Interpretation: Oppugning Ong, Awakening Arumugam’, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 1, 1997, p. 240Google Scholar
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Wee, K K S, ‘English Law and Chinese Family Custom in Singapore: The Problem of Fairness in Adjudication’, Malaya Law Review, vol. 16, no. 1, 1974, p. 52Google Scholar
Wee, K K S, ‘The Law of Legitimacy in Singapore’, Malaya Law Review, vol. 18, no. 1, 1976, p. 1Google Scholar
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Yeong, S S, ‘Clarity or Controversy: The Meaning of Judicial Independence in Singapore and Malaysia’, Singapore Law Review, vol. 13, 1992, p. 85Google Scholar
Abdullah, Aedit, ‘The Legal Profession’, in Tan, K Y L, Essays in Singapore Legal History, Singapore Academy of Law and Marshall Cavendish Academic, Singapore, 2005Google Scholar
Ibrahim, Ahmad, ‘Developments in the Marriage Laws in Malaysia and Singapore’, Malaya Law Review, vol. 12, no. 2, 1970, p. 257Google Scholar
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Bartholomew, G W, ‘The Singapore Statute Book’, Malaya Law Review, vol. 26, 1984, p. 1Google Scholar
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Braddell, Sir Roland, ‘Law and Lawyers’, in Makepeace, W, Brooke, G and Braddell, R (eds), One Hundred Years of Singapore, vol. 1, John Murray, London, 1921
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Das, C (ed), Justice Through Law: Fifty Years of the Bar Council of Malaysia 1947–1997, Bar Council Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 1997
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Ewing-Chow, M and Abdullah, Aedit, ‘The Structure of the Legal Profession’, in Tan, K Y L (ed), The Singapore Legal System, Singapore Academy of Law and Marshall Cavendish Academic, Singapore, 2005Google Scholar
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Mallal, B A, ‘Law and Law Reporting in Malaya’, University of Malaya Law Review, vol. 1, 1959, p. 71Google Scholar
Mills, L A, ‘British Malaya 1824–1867’, Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 33, part 3, 1960, p. 1Google Scholar
Abdul Rahman, Noor Aisha, ‘Muslim Personal Law within the Singapore Legal System: History, Prospects and Challenges’, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, vol. 29, no. 1, 2009, p. 109CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Norton Kyshe, J W, ‘A Judicial History of the Straits Settlements 1786–1890’, Malaya Law Review, vol. 11, 1969, p. 1Google Scholar
Phang, A B L, ‘Of “Cut-Off” Dates and Domination: Some Problematic Aspects of the Reception of English Law in Singapore’, Malaya Law Review, vol. 28, 1986, p. 242Google Scholar
Phang, A, ‘Cementing the Foundations: The Singapore Application of English Law Act 1993’, University of British Columbia Law Review, vol. 28, no. 1, 1994, p. 205Google Scholar
Phang, A, ‘The Reception of English Law’, in Tan, K Y L (ed), Essays in Singapore Legal History, Singapore Academy of Law and Marshall Cavendish Academic, Singapore, 2005Google Scholar
Phang, A, From Foundation to Legacy: The Second Charter of Justice, Singapore Academy of Law, Singapore, 2006Google Scholar
‘Raffles' Singapore Regulations – 1823’, Malaya Law Review, vol. 10, 1968, p. 248
Hassan, Riaz (ed), Singapore: Society in Transition, Oxford University Press, Singapore, 1976
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Li-ann, Thio, ‘An “i” for an “I”: Singapore's Communitarian Model of Constitutional Adjudication’, Hong Kong Law Journal, vol. 27, 1997, p. 152Google Scholar
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