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Tan Seng Kee v Attorney-General

[2022] 1 SLR 1347
JurisdictionSingapore
CourtSingapore Court of Appeal
Year2022
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

The SGCA held that s.377A of the Penal Code, while valid, was unenforceable against private consensual conduct between men due to the AG's undertaking not to proactively enforce it; the section was subsequently repealed.

Area of Law

constitutional

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