Kara Quek
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Kara is passionate about international relations and law on the international scale, and particular areas of interest include international trade and investment law, cross-border litigation and comparative law. She was a regular mooter at SMU (having participated in the Price Media Law Moot), and has received an honourable mention in the Institut Leimena’s essay-writing competition for her essay on religious freedom and the law in Southeast Asia and the USA. Kara graduated from Singapore Management University School of Law in 2018.

SMU Lexicon: Taming Horses in the Wild, Wild West: Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42
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Reading Time: 8 minutesIntroduction The interplay between law and policy has long been a bone of contention in the courts, underpinned by the famous declaration that public policy is an “unruly horse” – once you are astride it, it may lead you astray from the sound law.[1] This could be said to be particularly pertinent to the defence […]