Judicial Precedents:
Judgments declared by the courts are considered as the laws of the land. Thus, judicial courts form the basic source of Singapore Laws. These judgments might undergo a gradual change with the passage of time and gradually they turn out to be the common laws. Judicial judgments get modified by statutes and contract law, trust law, tort law, and equity are made out of those. Though the Supreme Court of Singapore is the authority on Singapore Laws yet subordinate courts play an important role in framing the laws of the land. Common public can access the cases published in the Singapore Law Reports and the unreported judgments of the Supreme Court and Subordinate Courts through free internet based service called LawNet. It is the Singapore Academy of Law that updates the cases mentioned in LawNet.
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