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The high commissioner of the United Kingdom to the Republic of Singapore is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Singapore.. Singapore, previously a British colony, became an internally self-governing state in 1959 and George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk, was appointed commissioner (not high commissioner) for Singapore and South East Asia.
This is a list of judgments given by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom between the court's inception on 1 October 2009 and the most recent judgments. Cases are listed in order of their neutral citation and where possible a link to the official text of the decision in PDF format has been provided.
In addition, Singapore's "judicial officials, especially the Supreme Court, have close ties to the ruling party and its leaders". [11] It also claimed that government leaders historically have used court proceedings, in particular defamation suits, against political opponents and critics, leading to a perception that the judiciary reflected the ...
In general, the Court hears civil appeals from decisions of the High Court made in the exercise of the latter's original and appellate jurisdiction, [67] that is, decisions on cases that started in the High Court as well as decisions that were appealed from the Subordinate Courts to the High Court. However, this rule is subject to various ...
The Supreme Court Building, designed by Foster and Partners, which commenced operations on 20 June 2005 – photographed in August 2006. The judicial officers of the Republic of Singapore work in the Supreme Court and the State Courts (known up to 6 March 2014 as the Subordinate Courts) to hear and determine disputes between litigants in civil cases and, in criminal matters, to determine the ...
(High Commissioner) Sierra Leone: 15 October 2019: London: United Kingdom: Morie Komba Manyeh (High Commissioner) Singapore: 2 September 2020: London: United Kingdom: Lim Thuan Kuan (High Commissioner) Slovakia: 11 August 2015: London: United Kingdom: Ľubomír Rehák (Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary) Slovenia: 22 September 2020: London
Justice Audrey Lim Yoon Cheng is a High Court Judge of the Singapore Supreme Court. [1] [2] She was appointed as Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court in 2016 and as a High Court Judge in 2019. [3] She graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1993. [3]
The High Court denied that this was the case, and found that the main consideration had been whether the development of the cruise industry would be impeded if Singapore gained an undesirable reputation as a hub for gambling cruises. The alleged irrelevant consideration had not been the substantial reason for the ultimate decision.