Side N
Three Legal Systems: Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan
Which sources back which section of this article, and what its evidence base looks like.
Which sources back which section
| Section | Sources behind it |
|---|---|
| What happened | Taiwan’s constitutional procedure and citizen-judge acts, the death-penalty judgment and the court’s statistics; CNA and PTS on the quorum dispute; Amnesty International and Wikipedia on Malaysia’s reform; The Vibes, Malay Mail and Wikipedia on the two Federal Court cases; Singapore’s Home Affairs ministry, Mothership and Malay Mail on Article 156 and the detention law; UN News on executions; the Malaysian Bar and The Star on the detention review. |
| Timeline | The same documents, plus Malaysia’s Act 355, LoyarBurok and Wikipedia on the end of juries, the IACL-AIDC blog on Indira Gandhi, the Application of English Law Act, Allen & Gledhill on Singapore’s courts, Taiwan’s government pages and the Taiwan Equality Campaign on same-sex marriage and adoption, PTS and PChome on executions, and Human Rights Watch on clemency. |
| The Argument | CNA and PTS for both sides of Taiwan’s dispute; the Home Affairs ministry and UN News for Singapore; Wikipedia, Malay Mail and the Malaysian Bar for Malaysia. The two readings are this article’s own and rest on the statutes above. |
| What Others Add | Taiwan’s codes and statutes at the national law database; Singapore Statutes Online and the Supreme Court; GlobaLex on Malaysia’s sources of law; Sabah’s and Sarawak’s native-court laws; Wikipedia on both constitutions, Malaysia’s states and Singapore’s family law; the Central Narcotics Bureau and Human Rights Watch on drug thresholds; Malay Mail via Yahoo on detainee numbers; PTS on citizen judges. |
| Conclusion | The constitutional procedure act, the death-penalty judgment and the court’s 2024 statistics; Amnesty International; The Star; UN News and Human Rights Watch; the Home Affairs ministry; Wikipedia on Singapore’s constitution and on Nik Elin; Malay Mail on SIS Forum. |
What the evidence base looks like
- 58Sources used on the page
- 26That are a statute, a court’s own document or a government’s own page
- 9Approached and discarded — refused, empty or contradicted by a statute
| Function | How many | What they are |
|---|---|---|
| State | 26 | Statutes of all three, Taiwan’s Constitutional Court judgment and statistics, Singapore’s courts and ministries, Taiwan’s government service pages, and Sabah’s and Sarawak’s native-court laws; all read in full. |
| Reporting | 17 | Newsrooms in Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore, and UN News; all read in full. |
| Reference | 10 | Encyclopaedia articles, a law-school research guide, a scholar’s case note and a law firm’s briefing; all read in full. |
| Community | 5 | Two human-rights organisations, a bar association, an equality campaign and a legal blog; all read in full. |
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Worth believing