Re Shankar Alan s/o Anant Kulkarni was a 2006 administrative law judgment in which the High Court of Singapore quashed a decision made by the Disciplinary Committee of the Law Society of Singapore aga
The Supreme Court Building, photographed in February 2007
A night view of Housing and Development Board flats in Woodlands. The complainants' wish to sell their flat in this public housing estate eventually led to them complaining about their lawyer's conduct to the Law Society of Singapore. After the Law Society's Disciplinary Committee found the lawyer guilty of grossly improper conduct, he challenged this decision in the High Court by way of judicial review.
A table comparing the reasonable suspicion and real likelihood tests for apparent bias
A drawing of Lady Justice. In R. v. Sussex Justices, ex parte McCarthy (1923), the court said that "justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done".
The remedies available in Singapore administrative law are the prerogative orders – the mandatory order, prohibiting order, quashing order, and order for review of detention – and the declaration, a f
A night view of the Supreme Court of Singapore. Applications for judicial review of administrative actions, in which prerogative orders may be sought, are made to the High Court which is housed in this building.
The headquarters of the Law Society of Singapore along South Bridge Road, photographed in January 2012. In 1985, the High Court granted a mandamus (now known as a mandatory order) to the Society to compel a Disciplinary Committee to investigate charges of wrongdoing against an advocate and solicitor.
Revenue House, the headquarters of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS), photographed in May 2006. In a 2010 case, the Court of Appeal held that a letter containing a determination by the Comptroller of Income Tax that a company was subject to withholding tax amounted only to advice, and so technically the Comptroller had taken no legal action that could be subject to a quashing order.
Form 111 of the Rules of Court (Cap. 322, R 5, 2006 Rev. Ed.), the format for an order for review of detention