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Ong Ah Chuan v Public Prosecutor

[1981] AC 648
JurisdictionSingapore
Year1981
Statusunclear

Key Principle

The Privy Council held that the equal protection guarantee under the Singapore Constitution requires that laws treat equally all persons in the same class; classification must bear a rational relation to the social object of the law.

Area of Law

constitutional

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