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Chee to cross-examine the Lees at hearing on 12 May Print Email
Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Singapore Democrats

In September 2004 the courts conducted a hearing to assess the amount of damages Dr Chee Soon Juan had to pay to Mr Lee Kuan Yew and Mr Goh Chok Tong in a defamation suit. That hearing was held while Dr Chee was not in Singapore.

When the SDP secretary-general found out about the date, he wrote to request for the hearing to be postponed for a couple of weeks until after he returned to Singapore.

Messrs Lee and Goh objected. Their lawyer Mr Davinder Singh said at that time: "Dr Chee is really not asking for an adjournment...This is not the conduct of a man who genuinely wants to appear for the hearing. He has no intention of coming, now or later."

With that the courts went ahead with the hearing in Dr Chee's absence. The hearing was in open court during which the two former prime ministers courageously took to the witness box to be cross-examined.

Unfortunately, there was no one there to cross-examine them.

Dr Chee applied for the hearing to be reconvened when he returned but the application was dismissed by High Court Judge Kan Ting Chiu.

Fast forward to 2008.

In the on-going lawsuit of the Lees versus the SDP, Ms Chee Siok Chin and Dr Chee, the hearing for assessment of damages will be held on 12 May 08. Like the previous lawsuit, this one ended with the courts awarding summary judgment, in chambers and without defense counsel present to boot, to the plaintiffs.

This means that Dr Chee has never had the pleasure of confronting his accuser, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, in court.

Both father and son team had sued the SDP and its executive members over an article published in The New Democrat comparing the running of the NKF by Mr T T Durai to the PAP system.

Unlike the previous hearing, Dr Chee is present this time and looking forward to questioning both the Prime Minister and his Mentor. Let's see if the Lees come up with some excuse to avoid being cross-examined – in open court.



16 April 2008

Registrar
Supreme Court
Singapore

Dear Sir,

Re: Suit Nos. 261 of 2006/L and 262 of 2006/Q

The hearing for assessment of damages for the above suits has been fixed for 12 May 2008. Please let me know which Judge will be presiding over the hearing and in which courtroom it will be held.

I request the information so that members of the public as well as trial observers who may wish to attend the hearing can be kept updated.

Sincerely,
Chee Soon Juan

 

 

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Comments (13)
  • Hello
    http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/World/STIStory_227920.html

    Sounds familar? Going to make fun of this? Oh but you don't trust the news. Neither do I
  • seebeng - why only in Singapore
    Can someone tell me why the LEEs always fight their cases in Singapore and win them with hands down? Why not take their court battle outside Singapore for instance to Hong Kong to sue the Far Eastern Economic Review? Why everthing has to be in Singapore only? Is it because Singapore is world's litigation hub?
  • Dingo
    Let's attend this hearing. I wanna meet LKY in person.
  • Born & bred Singaporean
    it should also be noted that Lee Kuan Yew and Lee Hsien Loong have never agreed to face Dr Chee in an open debate during elections.
  • nick
    wow i'd love to go n watch tt trial :lol:
  • Paul Poh
    This is the showdown entire Singapore is waiting for!

    For someone to slap Lee Kuan Yew across his F**king face!
  • Sunny - I don't believe they ever dare to appear
    I bet they never ever have that guts to appear in court.
    They or the court will find some excuse not to be cross examine.
  • Sow
    Thats what they get for not allowing CSJ leave Singapore from time to time.
    They should benn able to time the wayang when he is away as before.

    How what excuses will they make ?
  • tunkudon - battle of LEE and SDP
    ya i doubt so they will appear. if comfirm yes . keep me inform i will sure to attend :woohoo:
  • I hate Yew
    LKY is the biggest coward.

    In pre-independence Singapore, he had to depend on the Empire forces to get rid of his opponent.

    In court he was such a big coward that when it was his turn to face JBJ's QC he re-schedule it until after the QC died. Disgraceful.

    In media he won't go appear on really siong interview but softly ones like Charlie Rose, he wouldn't even face BBC's Hard Talk and had to let Wooden Goh do the dirty work for him.

    Anyway, I can expect he'll be looking for excuse to avoid being crossed examine and the useless court to accommodate him.
  • Sam
    The Lees pretend to be heros in front of the brain-washed citizens but they actually are cowards! :D
  • Standup10 - do unto the evil
    When a man needs to be vindicated badly and has nothing to lose anymore, he will fight a duel of his life.

    That old fox will suffer a stroke during the heated courtroom "cul de sac".

    And Singaporeans will have reason to rejoice for the first time!
  • Namae nashi - Life was so much better
    [size=small]Singapore Dissident Numero Uno (for the year of our Lord 2008) wrote in his blogged reply to a certain Edwin Soh:
    "What Lee has done over 4o years is this ... he has managed to build up this concrete jungle ...because Singapore has good infra structure, good telephones, transport and cleanliness..."[/size]

    [size=medium]Let this be said - if it has not been said before - here and now, once and for all:[/size]
    SINGAPORE WASN'T, WAS NEVER, BUILT UP FROM 1965 ONWARDS - PLEASE STOP HAVING MEMORY LAPSES, GOONS OF THIS WORLD.

    [size=large]SINGAPORE ALREADY HAD IN PLACE GOOD INFRASTRUCTURE OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION LINES, PROPER LEGAL AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEMS,ETC, ETC, WELL BEFORE THE OPPORTUNISTS (COMPRISING MAINLY THE CHINESE IMMIGRANTS AND SPECIFICALLY THE 'JEWS' AMONG THAT BUNCH) DECIDED TO DO A COPYCAT OF WHAT WAS SO FASHIONABLE BACK THEN IN POST-WWII 60s IN THE WORLD AMONG COLONIAL JURISDICTIONS (I.E. TO ACHIEVE 'INDEPENDENCE', TO CUT THE UMBILICAL CORD, TO BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS IT, SO TO SPEAK).

    MEN AND OFFICERS OF HER MAJESTY'S EMPIRE PUT UP AND PUT IN WORKABLE AND EFFICENT SYSTEMS IN EACH AND EVERY AND ALL THE LANDS THEY HAD COME TO CALL THEIR OWN - MIND YOU, THEY USUALLY DID NOT HAVE TO FIGHT AND DECIMATE THE NATIVES (LIKE WHAT POLITICIANS DO NOWADAYS, FIGURATIVLEY SPEAKING) BUT PAY DUES TO GREEDY AND MYOPIC, IMPOTENT KINGS AND SHEIKS OF THOSE GOD-FORSAKEN BACKWATERS - AND HAD LEFT SUCH GEMS AND GREAT LEGACIES BEHIND FOR THESE NATION-WANNABEES BUT WHICH WERE ULTIMATELY ABUSED AND PLUNDERED AND LEFT BEREFT OF EVERYTHING RESEMBLING ANYTHING GOOD THAT THE SOCALLED COLONIALS HAD SO PAINSTAKINGLY CREATED!

    SO, YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN OUT THERE, IN CASE YOU DO NOT KNOW YOUR HISTORY - EXCEPT FOR EVENTS LIKE LADY DI DIED IN A CRASH WITH HER MOSLEM LOVER IN 1997 (OR DID YOU NOT EVEN KNOW THAT, AS SUSPECTED?) -
    GO SEEK KNOWLEDGE FROM YOUR WISE OLD GRANNY - IF SHE'S STILL ALIVE AND HAS NOT DEAD YET FROM OVEREXHAUSTION AFTER MONTHS AND YEARS OF PICKING AND COLLECTING OLD NEWSPAPAERS CARDBOARD AND EMPTY DRINKS CANS (PLUS GOD KNOWS WHAT OTHE TRASH IN ORDER TO SNARE THAT TREASUED $2 PLATE OF CHICKEN TO SURVIVE, IN ORDER TO GO ON PICKING UP AND COLLECTING MORE OLD NEWSPAPERS & CARDBOARD, DRINKS CANS AND YES, ALL MANNER OF TRASH) -
    GO ASK HER IF GEORGE V, AND LATER HEIS DAUGHTER QE2, DID NOT TREAT ITS SUBJECTS MORE HUMANELY THAN NOW, OR AT THE VERY LEAST, LIFE WAS SO MUCH BETTER, EVERYTHING AFFORDABLE, NO HOUNDS RUNNING YOU DOWN FOR BLOOD (MONEY) IN EVERY LITTLE THING YOU DID, ETC, ETC.

    AND IF ANYTHING HAD GONE AMISS BACK THEN, AT LEAST YOU COULD TURN UP IN YOUR PIGTAILS AND SAMFOOS OR TATTERED COOLIE CLOTHES AT THE GOVERNOR'S RESIDENCE TO PROTEST (UNLIKE NOW, WHEN YOU CAN'T EVEN GO OUT WITH FIVE OTHER PALS AS THAT'LL MEAN AN ASSEMBLY OF 5 OR MORE) AND MAKE YOUR VOICE AND ISSUES HEARD!

    SO THAT WHEN YOU ELT WRONGED, YOU COULD ALSO AT LEAST PLAY THE BULLIED MIGRANT AND SHOUT: "DISCRIMINATION! RACISM!! INJUSTICE!!!"

    NOW YOU CAN'T DO THAT IF AN WHEN YOU WISH TO SEEK REDRESS FOR UNFAIRNESS AND INJUSTICE.

    BECAUSE IT'S YOUR OWN KIND WHO'S SITING PRETTY RIGHT AT THE TOP :evil: BULLYING YOU :D :lol:

    AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT :whistle: :s EXCEPT TO SHUT YOUR TRAP UP AND KEEP MUM.[/size]

    FOR THE REST OF YOUR BLOODY MISERABLE LIFE :lol: :lol: !

    [size=x-large]BECAUSE YOU AND/OR YOUR FATHERS,M OTHERS, UNCLES, AUNTS - YOUR ENTIRE CLAN - COMMITED THE CARDINAL SIN OF CLAMORING FOR 'INDEPENDENCE' :dry: :confused:

    AND THEN? VOTED FOR MORE GOOD YEARS :D :silly: B) [/size]
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