Case: rare Singapore Court of Appeal split decision, Chief Justice dissent on Women’s Charter interpretation on marriage of convenience

In this unusual Court of Appeal decision Cheng Tze Tzuen (alias Zhong Zhixuan) v Dang Lan Anh [2026] SGCA 42, the Honourable Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon dissented from the majority (the Honourable Ang Cheng Hock JCA and Debbie Ong JAD) on a very peculiar legal issue:

whether a ‘marriage of convenience’, or a sham marriage, entered prior to 1 Oct 2016 is void.
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