Will you pay $8000 to touch a SPG buttocks?

[RonRon]

THE engineer, 36, was cutting his way across the dance floor of a Clarke Quay club earlier this year when a 23-year-old woman accused him of touching her buttocks.

The bouncers stepped in. The police showed up. And though he claimed he did not touch the woman, he ended up paying $8,000 to settle the case.

'I didn't want trouble and I didn't know what my company and wife would think if they found out,' he said in an e-mail reply to The Straits Times. 'That was my only way out.'

 

[JinGanKor]

That's the so-called justice here, people pay to get out of trouble. What if he does not have the spare money?

Same for people with no power like Archie Ong and Piragasam Singaravelu who have to pay Durai for the Truth they have spoken.

In August 1997 and December 1998, NKF volunteer Archie Ong and aero-modelling instructor Piragasam Singaravelu respectively were hauled to court separately for defamation when both said that T.T. Durai had been flying first class. The former mentioned in April 1997 that the NKF "squandered monies" in a casual conversation with former chairman of NKF's finance committee Alwyn Lim,[1] while the latter has claimed that he had personally seen Mr Durai in Singapore Airlines' first-class cabin. Both paid an undisclosed amount of damages to the NKF, and apologised.[2] News of the suit affected Ong's cancer-suffering father, who eventually died in hospital. Shortly after the 2005 scandal broke, Ong mentioned to the press that he felt "fully vindicated now. I had more than a hundred calls today to wish me well."[3]
In 1999, NKF tracked down and again took legal action against Tan Kiat Noi, who allegedly circulated an e-mail from her company e-mail on 5 April, claiming that "the NKF did not help the poor and needy, paid its staff unrealistically high bonuses"[4] and discouraged members of the public from donating. She later published a public apology on local broadsheets The Straits Times and Lianhe Zaobao, and paid a total of S$50,000 in damages.[5] 48 additional workers who forwarded the same e-mail were also sued by the organisation, but the suit was later dropped in consideration that they would face possible financial hardships.[6] Days since the 2007 civil suit began, there have been calls by the public to redress the grievances of the three abovementioned whistle-blowers.[7]
In 2001, the National Council of Social Services refused to renew the NKF's "Institution of Public Character" (IPC) status (which allows it to collect tax-free donations), citing that subsidy figures had been inflated, staff costs had increased by 30% and a "disproportionate" amount of money was spent on fundraising. Concerns were first raised by both by the Health Ministry and NCSS two years ago. However, the former decided to intervene in January 2002 and reinstated the NKF's IPC status for a full three years.[8][9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Kidney_Foundation_Singapore_scandal

Did our legal system gives them back their justice?

And things were totally different when the arrow is pointed at SPH senior correspondent Susan Long. If SPH did not back her up, she will end up like Archie Ong. But with the backing of the rich and powerful, not only she get her justice, what previously was considered as a defamation becomes true.

Only Money and Power = Justice.

 

[R4g3]

That's the so-called justice here, people pay to get out of trouble. What if he does not have the spare money?

Same for people with no power like Archie Ong and Piragasam Singaravelu who have to pay Durai for the Truth they have spoken.



Did our legal system gives them back their justice?

And things were totally different when the arrow is pointed at SPH senior correspondent Susan Long. If SPH did not back her up, she will end up like Archie Ong. But with the backing of the rich and powerful, not only she get her justice, what previously was considered as a defamation becomes true.

Only Money and Power = Justice.

no money no justice.

i have seen cases of people admit it is their fault to settle things just because they want to end it. A friend pay $10,000 to settle out of court because he said that if he want justice he need to spend at least 20-30k to fight and the odds of winning is only 50/50.

This is the kind of Justice we have here.

 

[UltimaOnline]

The rich, always had unfair advantage over the power. That's nothing new.

The point of the article, is to highlight the increasing trend of many young women (with male accomplices) to extort increasingly huge sums of money from innocent men by false accusing them of molest.

The men in most cases would pay, to avoid trouble with their companies or wives. The sums have increased from only $1000 a few years ago, up to $50,000 this year. The average sum is $10,000.

Imagine you're forced to pay $10,000 for a crime you didn't commit. But the law always sides with the victim, and with the victim's accomplices to corroborate their accusations, you've just lost $10,000.

 

[borom]

This is the reason why more and more local men are marrying foreign women .
Even when going out many locals prefer to frequent places where most of the ladies are foreigners.
Just read the Woman's Charter and you will know why.

 

[halsey02]

This is the reason why more and more local men are marrying foreign women .
Even when going out many locals prefer to frequent places where most of the ladies are foreigners.
Just read the Woman's Charter and you will know why.

Was about to say, what you had said. PRC's women comrades are much obliging, you can touch, 'beyond the sea'...ha ha ha

and do not have to pay the courts $8,000 for rubbing the buttocks, the man should have insisted on a DNA test on the buttocks, bet you, you can find a lot of caucasians have left their DNA on the bum...plus the liquids that the building blocks of another life... ha ha ha

what a bum rap...