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SINGAPORE JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES

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  • Book Review

    Book Review: Human Rights in National and International Law by A.H. Robertson ed.

    Citation: [1969] Sing JLS 376
  • Book Review

    Book Review: The Sale of Goods 2nd Ed. By Clive M. Schmitthoff

    Citation: [1967] Sing JLS 376
  • Book Review

    Book Review: The Fundamentals of Legal Drafting by Reed Dickerson Drafting a Union Contract by LeRoy Marceau

    Citation: [1966] Sing JLS 376
  • Book Review

    Book Review: The Enforcement of Morals by the Hon. Sir Patrick Devlin

    Citation: [1959] Sing JLS 376
  • Book Review

    Book Review: The English Sentencing System by Rupert Cross and Andrew Ashworth

    Citation: [1981] Sing JLS 377
  • Book Review

    Book Review: International Law, 2nd Edition by D.W. Greig

    Citation: [1976] Sing JLS 377
  • Book Review

    Book Review: Introduction to international Law 6th Ed. By J. G. Starke, Q.C.

    Citation: [1967] Sing JLS 377
  • Book Review

    Book Review: Copyright: Modern Law & Practice by P. F. Carter-Ruck & E. P. Skone James Ed. By F. E. Skone James

    Citation: [1966] Sing JLS 377
  • Book Review

    Book Review: Terrell on the Law of Patents 11th Ed. By Guy Aldous, Q.C., Douglas Falconers & Willian Aldous

    Citation: [1966] Sing JLS 377
  • Book Review

    Book Review: Lord Sumption and the Limits of the Law by Nicholas Barber, Richard Ekins and Paul Yowell, eds

    Citation: [2016] Sing JLS 378
    On 20 November 2013, Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since 2012, delivered the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture in Kuala Lumpur. Entitled "The Limits of Law", it explored the role that judicial review should play in a democratic system, expressing concern that particularly insofar as questions of fundamental rights are concerned, the English courts' expanding resort to judicial review was increasingly impinging upon political terrain that is more properly the purview of parliament. His argument along these lines derived primarily from two claims. The first is that judicial modes of investigation, which generally limit their focus to the concerns of the parties before the court, are inappropriate in the context of the much more polycentric nature of questions of fundamental rights