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Tan Seng Kee v Attorney-General

[2022] 1 SLR 1347; [2022] SGCA 16
JurisdictionSingapore
CourtSingapore Court of Appeal
Year2022
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

The Singapore Court of Appeal held that s 377A of the Penal Code was unenforceable in its entirety based on the doctrine of substantive legitimate expectations arising from the Attorney-General's public statements that it would not be enforced against private consensual sexual acts between adult men, rendering the challengers without standing to mount constitutional challenges.

Area of Law

constitutional

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