Singaporean counter sues a stat board who first sued her for defamation

[DuYunQi]

Garment institutions should not be extempt from lawsuits. If they are in the wrong.

But most Singaporeans have no balls to do so.

I think it's also bcos they are afraid that the courts will award the govt to win and then have to pay court fees and other damages. Not many has a monthly salary of above SGD10, 000.

Look at the current few cases.. it doesn't inspire any confidence in me or to believe in the system.

 

[songsongpunggol]

don't you study by memorising?

everyone in sgp know this is how we do it in sgp!

S'pore blogger takes stat board to court after letter of demand

A former private school student is taking the Council of Private Education (CPE) to court after she received a letter earlier this week, demanding her to stop sending the alleged defamatory emails and also provide an apology to those whom these emails have been sent to.

Han Hui Hui, 21, a blogger and former student of local private school Shelton College, has been sent a letter of demand by representing lawyers of CPE, asking her to stop sending out two emails to members of the media, according to a copy of the legal documents sent to Yahoo! Singapore on Friday.

However, Han has hit back by engaging human rights lawyer, M Ravi, whose legal challenge on Friday posits that as CPE is a public and statutory body, it cannot sue for libel. Han's legal challenge also argues that she is entitled to her right to freedom of speech under the constitution.

Han's two emails in question earlier this month were directed at CPE corporate communications manager Andy Ong, claiming he had lied to media reporters about her. Both emails were also sent to several members of the local media.

In one email, she wrote, "Reporters have named you as the person who represented Council for Private Education in Singapore who lied to them."

In another, she wrote, "Reporters said that you've represented CPE and made statements that are untrue."

According to CPE's letter of demand, the emails were defamatory because they "have lowered the CPE in the esteem of right thinking members of society". The CPE is asking for a written apology and for her to send it to CPE's "solicitors", Andy Ong, as well as other media whom the emails have been copied to.


Before Han sent emails directed to Andy Ong, she stated in her affidavit that she had written a blog post on 15 March 2013 mentioning that local private schools are "unethical" and in her post, she said that they are giving out “examination questions and answers for students to memorise and regurgitate during the actual examination” and shared similar posts on her Facebook account as well.


After the post went viral, she also stated that a TNP (The New Paper) reporter approached Han through email with queries and Han had the impression that the reporter thought that she was “from Kaplan and had a dispute resolution", which she regards as untrue and reacted by sending out the emails to Andy Ong, copying it to other media.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Re: don't you study by memorising?

She's quite a little immature cunt ain't she?

 

[kingrant]

Likely to be from one of the private schools..dont think she got the std to go UK.

I am still wanting to know what Andy Ong told her and why is she calling him a liar.

Seems like the blogger fell through the cracks after JC. Where on earth is Staffordshire University?

 

[scroobal]

Went noseying around and heard that it is likely to be taken offline as Andy seemed to have overstepped his authority.

 

[Bigfuck]

Went noseying around and heard that it is likely to be taken offline as Andy seemed to have overstepped his authority.

CPE needs to be audited and reeducated. Andy makes a fine minion of KY.

 

[jw5]

Went noseying around and heard that it is likely to be taken offline as Andy seemed to have overstepped his authority.

Your wife's Ang Mo lover was noseying around her.

 

[DuYunQi]

Somehow, the fact that I only saw this piece of news on Yahoo.. and nowhere else in local media, says alot about what those who control the media want the ppl to see and read. This is how I feel.. and the feeling is very strong in my guts.

But I wonder how much can they keep from the ppl. The more they try to hide, it seems the more info is "spilled" out onto the internet. I remember that there were some comments previously from MIW about having some laws on internet posting (correct me if I am wrong cos only based on memory).. and I believe it got no headway.. probably cos it would be so hard to really put into real action.

Don't you guys think that these pappies and their lackeys are not thinking straight? How much can they think they can control? Ppl's thoughts and views? Impossible.. and only ppl who are insane would believe that it would be even worth a try.

Hui Hui might seem clumsy, but I think she neither has alot of knowledge on legal stuff, nor a "veteran" of lawsuits and proceedings in Sg. Plus, she is young, and therefore, seemingly "fearless". But this is exactly what I think we need. I remmeber my martial arts teacher once told me, "we practice forms so that we get familiar. so that in times, we react.. if you think too much, you lose the initiative and the advantage. Pure and simple reaction can save your life. Thinking too much could cost you a limb."

I guess for Hui Hui, if she really had thought hard about the possible consequences, she may have been like alot of other sinkies.. and just withered and gone from sight and sound. But I applaud her for her tenacity in wanting to clear what she thinks as a wrong done to her. That is exactly what the pappies luv to do, is it not? Send lawyers letters to demand apology to ppl who they felt made "defamatory" remarks on them?

Turn about, is fair play. Bravo, Hui Hui. Gu Su Murong clan must be your ancestors. (I am a Jin Yong fan)