Singapore Leading Case grounds illegality irrationality procedural improprietyarticle 14 speech assemblyproportionality rejectedpolice discretion and public order

Chee Siok Chin v Minister for Home Affairs

[2005] SGHC 216; [2006] 1 SLR(R) 582

JurisdictionSingapore

CourtHigh Court of Singapore

Year2005

StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

Police/executive discretion is reviewable on the GCHQ grounds of illegality, irrationality and procedural impropriety; constitutional free-speech and assembly rights are subject to the restrictions Parliament may impose.

Area of Law

Constitutional & Public Law

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