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2010

 * High Court of Singapore (Did You Know, mentioned 5 January 2010)
 * SupremeCourtBuilding-Singapore-20070210.jpg 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?


 * Symbol support vote.svg Murder of Huang Na (rated a Good Article on 17 April 2010)
 * Walter Woon (Did You Know, mentioned 25 April 2010)
 * 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?


 * Vandalism Act (Singapore) (Did You Know, mentioned 13 June 2010)
 * 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?


 * K. S. Rajah (Did You Know, mentioned 28 June 2010)
 * 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?


 * Oliver Fricker (Did You Know, mentioned 4 July 2010)
 * 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?


 * Inderjit Singh (politician) (Did You Know, mentioned 20 July 2010)
 * 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?


 * Powers of the President of Singapore (Did You Know, mentioned 29 July 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?


 * Nanyang Style (Did You Know, mentioned 9 August 2010)
 * Did you know ... that the Nanyang Style was a regional art movement practised by migrant Chinese painters in Singapore in the 1950s?


 * Offence of scandalizing the court in Singapore (Did You Know, mentioned 9 August 2010)
 * 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?


 * Sivakant Tiwari (Did You Know, mentioned 9 August 2010)
 * 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)?


 * Constitution of the Republic of Singapore Tribunal (Did You Know, mentioned 10 August 2010)
 * 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?


 * 2010 Summer Youth Olympics (In the News, mentioned 14 August 2010)
 * The 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, the first of the Youth Olympic Games, begins in Singapore with 3,531 athletes from 205 National Olympic Committees.


 * Venues of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics (Did You Know, mentioned 14 August 2010)
 * 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?


 * Lyo and Merly (Did You Know, mentioned 15 August 2010)
 * 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?


 * Chng Suan Tze v. Minister for Home Affairs (Did You Know, mentioned 20 August 2010)
 * 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?


 * Cscr-featured.png Venues of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics (rated a Featured List on 11 September 2010)
 * Presidential elections in Singapore (Did You Know, mentioned 19 September 2010)
 * 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?


 * Speakers' Corner, Singapore (Did You Know, mentioned 5 October 2010)
 * 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?


 * Balaji Sadasivan (Did You Know, mentioned 8 October 2010)
 * 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?


 * Legitimate expectation in Singapore law (Did You Know, mentioned 15 October 2010)
 * 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?


 * Wednesbury unreasonableness in Singapore law (Did You Know, mentioned 12 November 2010)
 * 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?


 * Doctrine of bias in Singapore law (Did You Know, mentioned 15 November 2010)
 * 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?


 * Article 15 of the Constitution of Singapore (Did You Know, mentioned 29 November 2010)
 * 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?


 * Article 12 of the Constitution of Singapore (Did You Know, mentioned 5 December 2010)
 * 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?


 * Article 9 of the Constitution of Singapore (Did You Know, mentioned 11 December 2010)
 * 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?


 * Nominated Member of Parliament (Did You Know, mentioned 20 December 2010)
 * 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"?


 * Group Representation Constituency (Did You Know, mentioned 25 December 2010)
 * 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?