Lim Meng Suang v Attorney General [2014] SGCA 53

Judgment of the Court of Appeal of the Republic of Singapore dismissing, on 29 October 2014, the joint appeals of Tan Eng Hong and Lim Meng Suang, who had separately challenged the constitutionality of section 377A of the Penal Code criminalising same-sex activity between men in Singapore.

This judgment of the Court of Appeal of Singapore dismissed the joint appeals challenging the constitutionality of Section 377A of the Penal Code criminalising same-sex activity between men in Singapore.

The Court stated that it is up to Parliament to decide on decriminalisation, declaring that the petitioner’s arguments involved ”extra-legal considerations and matters of social policy which were outside the remit of the court, and should, instead, have been canvassed in the legislative sphere.”