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Contempt of court proceedings against Li Shengwu can start, as application challenging AGC’s order dismissed

Even though he is not in Singapore.

By Belmont Lay |
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A High Court judge has dismissed an application by Li Shengwu, paving the way for contempt of court proceedings to commence against him.

The application by the nephew of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was to challenge an order by the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) to personally serve him papers outside Singapore.

The decision on Monday, March 26 by Justice Kannan Ramesh, would have Li pay costs understood to be about S$6,000.
 
Background of case
Li, 32, is a junior fellow at Harvard University, and is based in the United States.


On July 15, 2017, Li wrote in a Facebook post that the Singapore government was “litigious” and has a “pliant court system”.

The post was shared with “friends only”.

His comments accompanied a Wall Street Journal article he posted on the dispute between his father Lee Hsien Yang, his aunt Lee Wei Ling and PM Lee over the Oxley Road house that belonged to the late founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who was Li’s grandfather.

The AGC wrote to Li six days after the comments were made. He was asked to “purge the contempt” by deleting the post and issuing a written apology on his Facebook page. Li did not do so.
 
The AGC then filed an application for permission to start contempt of court proceedings in the High Court, which was granted on Aug. 21.

The contempt of court proceedings were launched against Li even though he was outside of Singapore.

Four months after that in December 2017, Li filed an application challenging the order that the AGC obtained from the High Court before the proceedings were launched against him.
 
Li’s lawyers issues statement
Li’s lawyers, Abraham Vergis and Asiyah Arif of Providence Law Asia, issued a statement to the media: “While Shengwu respects the Court’s decision, he is understandably disappointed with the outcome.”

Li is considering whether to appeal against the decision, “given that novel and important legal issues arose for determination” of the costs.
 
https://economics.harvard.edu/people/shengwu-li

Shengwu Li is a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows and will join the Economics Department faculty as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2018.

Staff Support:
Mary Louise Corradino
17 Sumner Rd. Room 101
Cambridge, MA 02138
[email protected]
Tel: 617-496-2614

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What will Pinky do? Send SID spies to kidnap him? Coerce Harvard to remove his professorship?
 
https://www.supremecourt.gov.sg/about-us/the-supreme-court-bench/justices

Justice Kannan Ramesh joined the Supreme Court as Judicial Commissioner in May 2015, and then as Judge of the High Court in April 2017.

He received his Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the National University of Singapore in 1990. He was then admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore in 1991, and appointed as Senior Counsel in 2012.

Mr Ramesh was Managing Partner of Messrs Tan Kok Quan Partnership, where he specialised in dispute resolution, insolvency and restructuring, and international arbitration.

He was also appointed as Board Member of the Singapore Aerospace Manufacturing Pte Ltd and M1 Limited. In the former, he had an added role as Executive Committee Member, while in the latter, he was Chairman of M1’s Risk Committee, as well as Member of their Nominating and Audit Committees.

He is currently a Member of Singapore Academy of Law’s Law Reform Committee, and New York’s International Insolvency Institute (III). He is also part of the Arbitration and Conciliation working group in the latter.

Mr Ramesh wrote Getting the Deal Through – Restructuring and Insolvency in 51 Jurisdictions Worldwide in 2010. He also authored the Singapore Chapter of the World Bank publication, Doing Business – Closing a Business Survey, published in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
 
I hope he can fight all the way to expose the useless kangaroo and his uncle until next GE. I am sure he will be able to swing majority of 70% voters who still have not gotten over the death of this granny.
 
Looks like pinky is really afraid of his nephew. This is sad.
 
I can't wait to drag that evil shengwu by the hair and make him apologize to the good PM Lee on bended knees.
 
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