Such effects, and often latent functions too, may differ sharply from the particular laws' ostensible purposes. Those issues aside, judges, lawyers, litigants and the public might agree that things ought to be called, and be seen to operate, by their proper names and by undisguised procedures. The example of the late Robert Maxwell is used to show how a person of wealth and power could long exploit defamation laws to shield a questionable business reputation from legitimate questioning. Each involves the masking or manipulation of defamation rules and latches attention onto their moral, cultural or economic ramifications.
Latency is demonstrably present in law.
To ignore it, or to regard it as excrescence or contradiction, is to short-change all parties to the business of social and legal reform. This article examines the charterer's contractual promise that the chartered ship will be employed between and at safe ports. The invasion of Kuwait by Iraq on 2 August 1990 triggered a string of UN Security Council resolutions that was unprecedented. Military forces were despatched by the allied nations under the auspices of the UN to enforce economic sanctions against Iraq. Singapore's response to the major resolutions are examined, in particular, the freezing of Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets.