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Supreme Court Building, Singapore
Supreme Court Building, Singapore
Did you know ... that the High Court of Singapore (Supreme Court Building pictured) is the sole court in Singapore exercising original criminal jurisdiction that may impose the death penalty?
Did you know ... that Walter Woon, former Attorney-General of Singapore, was the first Member of Parliament since Singapore's independence to have a private member's bill become a public law?
Did you know ... that under the Vandalism Act of Singapore, a person convicted for the first time of vandalism by defacing property using an indelible substance such as paint must be sentenced to caning?
Did you know ... that in 1991 Judicial Commissioner K. S. Rajah annulled a marriage between a woman who underwent sex reassignment surgery and another woman, reasoning that a transsexual's gender was biologically determined?
Did you know ... that the spray-painting of graffiti on a Mass Rapid Transit train in a depot by Oliver Fricker and an accomplice in May 2010 caused an outcry over the security of protected installations in Singapore?
Did you know ... that Inderjit Singh, member of the Parliament of Singapore, started six businesses?
  • Wormrot (Did You Know, mentioned 23 July 2010)
Did you know ... that Earache got Wormrot in January 2010?
Did you know ... that S.R. Nathan was the first President of Singapore to exercise the constitutional power to use the nation's past reserves to fund government schemes during the financial downturn?
Did you know ... that the Nanyang Style was a regional art movement practised by migrant Chinese painters in Singapore in the 1950s?
Did you know ... that any act or statement which alleges bias, impropriety or any wrongdoing concerning a judge in the exercise of his judicial function falls within the offence of scandalizing the court in Singapore?
Did you know ... that senior Singaporean legal officer Sivakant Tiwari was lead counsel in inquiries into the Spyros disaster (1978), the Singapore Cable Car disaster (1984), and the Hotel New World disaster (1988)?
Did you know ... that the President of Singapore can only refer questions regarding the Constitution to the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore Tribunal on the Cabinet's advice?
The 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, the first of the Youth Olympic Games, begins in Singapore with 3,531 athletes from 205 National Olympic Committees.
Did you know ... that The Float@Marina Bay, a venue of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, hosts the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games as the world's largest floating stage?
Did you know ... that the costumes of Lyo and Merly, the official mascots of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, have inbuilt fans and optional vests lined with cool packs to keep wearers from overheating?
Did you know ... that the Singapore case Chng Suan Tze v. Minister for Home Affairs, which held that courts could assess the lawfulness of orders made under the Internal Security Act, was overridden by statute in 1989?
Did you know ... that a potential candidate for a presidential election in Singapore must apply for a certificate of eligibility to show he has the necessary qualifications to be nominated?
A brown wooden sign with the words "Speakers' Corner" in white
Did you know ... that people making speeches at Speakers' Corner in Singapore (pictured) must use one of Singapore's four official languages – English, Malay, Mandarin or Tamil – or a related dialect?
Did you know ... that the late Singaporean Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Balaji Sadasivan became a neurosurgeon after seeing the effects of Minamata disease in Minamata, Japan, as a medical student?
Did you know ... that in a 1988 administrative law judgment, the High Court of Singapore held that an alien allowed to enter the country for a fixed period has no legitimate expectation of staying a day longer?
Did you know ... that a classic hypothetical example of the Wednesbury unreasonableness doctrine in administrative law, which applies in Singapore, is a public authority dismissing a teacher because of her red hair?
Did you know ... that one definition of judicial bias in Singapore is that a "reasonable and fair-minded person" who is present in court and knows all the relevant facts suspects that a fair trial is not possible?
Did you know ... that freedom of religion in Singapore, which is guaranteed by Article 15 of the Constitution of Singapore, may be restricted by a general law relating to public order, public health or morality?
Did you know ... that in a 1998 case the Singapore Court of Appeal traced the origin of the concept of equality in Article 12 of the Constitution of Singapore to the 40th article of the Magna Carta of 1215?
Did you know ... that under Article 9 of the Singapore Constitution no one may be deprived of life or personal liberty save in accordance with law, which a 1980 case says includes fundamental rules of natural justice?
Did you know ... that in May 2009, when proposing that Nominated Members of Parliament should be a permanent part of Singapore's Parliament, the Prime Minister said they had "outshone even the Opposition MPs"?
Did you know ... that a Group Representation Constituency is a type of electoral division in Singapore in which a team of candidates stands for election and is voted into Parliament as a group?