POOR-LAW AMENDMENT ACT.

Amendment of the Human Organ Transplant Act.

On 6 January 2004, the Human Organ Transplant Act (HOTA) was amended to allow more Singaporeans to benefit from organ donation. The main amendments to HOTA were (a) to extend HOTA beyond kidneys to include livers, hearts and corneas; (b) to extend HOTA beyond deaths due to accidents to include all causes of deaths; and (c) to extend HOTA beyond cadaveric organ donation to also regulate living d...

Physician advertising: the first amendment and the Sherman Act.

In Bates v. State Bar of Arizona,' the Supreme Court held that a state's prohibition of advertising by attorneys was unconstitutional as applied to a newspaper advertisement setting forth fees for certain routine legal services. Bates is necessarily the foundation upon which one must base any judgment regarding the legality of restraints upon physicians' advertising. Restraints on advertising p...

A 'Scottish Poor Law of Lunacy'? Poor Law, Lunacy Law and Scotland's parochial asylums.

Scotland's parochial asylums are unfamiliar institutional spaces. Representing the concrete manifestation of the collision between two spheres of legislation, the Poor Law and the Lunacy Law, six such asylums were constructed in the latter half of the nineteenth century. These sites expressed the enduring mandate of the Scottish Poor Law 1845 over the domain of 'madness'. They were institutions...

Cultural Heterogeneity and Law: Pornography, Blasphemy, and the First Amendment

The Children's Amendment Act and the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act: duty to report child abuse and sexual offences against children and mentally disabled persons.