← All Authorities
Singapore
Leading Case
statutory presumptionstrafficking presumptionin accordance with lawreasonable classification
Ong Ah Chuan v Public Prosecutor
[1981] AC 648
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
Related Cases