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		<title>NCMPs as Punggol East By-election Candidates</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Jack Tsen-Ta Lee Assistant Professor of Law School of Law, SMU I&#8217;M INTRIGUED that the media has been reporting that the Workers&#8217; Party may field one of their existing Non-constituency Members of Parliament (NCMPs) as a candidate in the forthcoming by-election in Punggol East Single Member Constituency.[1] This possibility, which I have previously blogged [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singaporepubliclaw.com&#038;blog=13092042&#038;post=269&#038;subd=singaporepubliclawyers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 14,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 3 Film Festivals&#8230; Click here to see the complete report.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singaporepubliclaw.com&#038;blog=13092042&#038;post=267&#038;subd=singaporepubliclawyers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shock Resignation of Speaker Michael Palmer – Another By-election in the Offing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Jack Tsen-Ta Lee Assistant Professor of Law School of Law, SMU THE SHOCK RESIGNATION of Michael Palmer as Speaker of Parliament, Member of Parliament for Punggol East Single Member Constituency (SMC), and member of the ruling People&#8217;s Action Party (PAP) due to a personal indiscretion has once again raised the intriguing possibility that a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singaporepubliclaw.com&#038;blog=13092042&#038;post=253&#038;subd=singaporepubliclawyers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Press Freedom in Singapore</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dierdre Grace Morgan Third Year LLB student School of Law, SMU PERSPECTIVES ON PRESS FREEDOM, a talk on international and local perspectives on press freedom, was held at the Singapore Management University on 3 September 2012. It featured Dr David Goldberg, Senior Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Computers and Communications Law, Queen Mary [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singaporepubliclaw.com&#038;blog=13092042&#038;post=245&#038;subd=singaporepubliclawyers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Past, Present and Future of the Internal Security Act</title>
		<link>http://singaporepubliclaw.com/2012/06/05/internal-security-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Tsen-Ta Lee Assistant Professor of Law School of Law, SMU MORE THAN 60 YEARS have passed since a law permitting detention without trial first took effect in Singapore. The need for the current version of this law, the Internal Security Act (ISA), has been questioned on many occasions, most recently last year when Malaysia [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singaporepubliclaw.com&#038;blog=13092042&#038;post=221&#038;subd=singaporepubliclawyers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Can You Say on Cooling-off Day?</title>
		<link>http://singaporepubliclaw.com/2012/05/25/cooling-off-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Tsen-Ta Lee Assistant Professor of Law School of Law, SMU UNLESS YOU&#8217;VE BEEN living under a rock for the past two weeks, you&#8217;ll know that polling day for the by-election in Hougang Single Member Constituency is tomorrow, 26 May. This makes today &#8220;cooling-off day&#8221;, when no active election campaigning is permitted by law. At 12:46 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singaporepubliclaw.com&#038;blog=13092042&#038;post=208&#038;subd=singaporepubliclawyers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Low Thia Khiang as a Candidate for By-election in Hougang?</title>
		<link>http://singaporepubliclaw.com/2012/05/10/low-thia-khiang-as-candidate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Tsen-Ta Lee Assistant Professor of Law School of Law, SMU IT HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED that nomination day for the by-election in Hougang Single Member Constituency will be on 16 May 2012, and if there is a contested election, polling day will be on 26 May. This ten-day period is the shortest permitted by the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singaporepubliclaw.com&#038;blog=13092042&#038;post=149&#038;subd=singaporepubliclawyers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bukit Brown Cemetery: You Can Sue, but You Won&#8217;t Win</title>
		<link>http://singaporepubliclaw.com/2012/05/09/bukit-brown-cemetery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 20:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Tsen-Ta Lee Assistant Professor of Law School of Law, SMU THE CAUSE CÉLÈBRE that is Bukit Brown Cemetery has galvanized numerous civil society groups into calling for its preservation. They are responding to the Ministry of National Development’s decision to build a road across the historic burial ground to ease traffic congestion along Lornie [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singaporepubliclaw.com&#038;blog=13092042&#038;post=131&#038;subd=singaporepubliclawyers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hougang By-election Case: The State of Play</title>
		<link>http://singaporepubliclaw.com/2012/04/15/hougang-by-election-case-the-state-of-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Tsen-Ta Lee Assistant Professor of Law School of Law, SMU ON 9 APRIL, Justice Philip Pillai, sitting in the High Court, released the grounds for his decision for granting leave – that is, permission – for Mdm Vellama Marie Muthu’s judicial review application in the Hougang by-election case. She had applied for a declaration [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singaporepubliclaw.com&#038;blog=13092042&#038;post=112&#038;subd=singaporepubliclawyers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Legal Backgrounder on By-elections</title>
		<link>http://singaporepubliclaw.com/2012/02/28/a-legal-backgrounder-on-by-elections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional interpretation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Tsen-Ta Lee Assistant Professor of Law School of Law, SMU THE EXPULSION of Yaw Shin Leong, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hougang Single Member Constituency (SMC), from the Workers’ Party has once again thrust the issue of the Government’s policy on by-elections into the limelight. This was last discussed in Parliament in August [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=singaporepubliclaw.com&#038;blog=13092042&#038;post=102&#038;subd=singaporepubliclawyers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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