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Shengwu hires Vergis to defend him against Loony Uncle's charges

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Why am i not shocked that his significant event is quietly ignored by the prostitute press? Shengwu is not backing down and Abraham does not come cheap. Which ever DPP Lucien wants to send against Abraham will be eaten alive by him. The kangaroo judge will have to blatantly save Lucien from this shit mess and return a guilty verdict against all arguments and evidence to the contrary. Lawyers are not afraid to take on Gay Loong and his porlumpars anymore?

Li Shengwu, grandson of Singapore’s founder, appoints lawyer to fight contempt charge
The case relates to a feud between Lee Kuan Yew’s three children over the fate of Lee’s house, which earlier this year gripped the nation not accustomed to such disputes erupting into public view
A nephew of Singapore’s prime minister said a contempt of court proceeding against him, stemming from comments he made about the country’s legal system, was “meritless” and he had appointed a lawyer to represent him.

The Singapore attorney general’s office started court proceedings in August against Li Shengwu over a Facebook post in which he said the Singapore government is “very litigious and has a pliant court system”.

Li, who is a grandson of the city state’s founding leader Lee Kuan Yew, said at the weekend he had retained Singapore lawyer Abraham Vergis, of the firm Providence Law Asia, to represent him.

“It’s sad that the Singapore government continues to press these meritless charges against me,” said Li, a US-based academic.

Vergis, a veteran litigation lawyer, appeared at the Singapore High Court on Monday in a closed-door conference on the case.

It’s sad that the Singapore government continues to press these meritless charges against me
Li Shengwu
He said the case was likely to be a drawn out process and when asked how Li planned to proceed, Vergis said: “It is premature to be talking about that.”

Lawyer Francis Ng, the senior state counsel from the attorney general’s chambers, declined to comment.

Singapore parliament last year passed a bill that made it punishable by up to three years in prison or a fine of up to S$100,000 (US$73,530) for anyone who alleges the country’s judiciary is bias.

Ng has previously described Li’s Facebook post as “an egregious and baseless attack” on the Singapore legal system.

On August 4, Li said he did not mean to attack the Singapore judiciary and he had amended the “private” post to avoid misunderstanding, though he hasn’t disclosed what changes he made.

Li said in separate comments in an interview in August that he had left the country in July after friends expressed concerns he might be detained by the authorities.

In the interview, Li did not identify the friends or specify the information they had.

“In Singapore, it is possible that one can be detained and interrogated for some time without a lawyer,” Li said at the time.

The case relates to a feud between Lee Kuan Yew’s three children over the fate of Lee’s house, which earlier this year gripped the nation not accustomed to such disputes erupting into public view.

Lee Hsien Yang and sister Lee Wei Ling accused their elder brother, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, of abusing power to try to save the house as a historic monument in defiance of their father’s wishes.

The premier called a special sitting of parliament to “clear the air” over the issue and afterwards said the debate had failed to find any substantial evidence of abuse of power.

Lee Kuan Yew, who died in 2015 at the age of 91, had lived in the house for most of his life.
 

steffychun

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If he's not in Singapore, how can they sue him? Basically, he won't be able to pay anything to Uncle Pinky (or is it Aunty?) since he's inn Trump land.
 

scroobal

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Arguably Old Man's favourite grandson and I will be surprised if anything serious happens to him. My guess it will be case of a bit of legal jousting for the gallery followed by an apology and a withdrawal or a conditional discharge.
 

dr.wailing

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The Singapore attorney general’s office started court proceedings in August against Li Shengwu over a Facebook post in which he said the Singapore government is “very litigious and has a pliant court system”.

AG started proceedings in August and now only the real show starts? Shengwu indeed has preferential treatment.

If he were just an ordinary Sinkie like Tang Hong Liang, Vincent Cheng or Teo Soh Lung, he'd have been hauled to court within a few days of AG's commencement of proceedings.
 

johnny333

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I doubt he will be jailed. It might anger his parents who may go nuclear & encourage them to reveal dirty famiLee linen.
 

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AG started proceedings in August and now only the real show starts? Shengwu indeed has preferential treatment.

If he were just an ordinary Sinkie like Tang Hong Liang, Vincent Cheng or Teo Soh Lung, he'd have been hauled to court within a few days of AG's commencement of proceedings.

Shengwu is charged under an entirely new law. And I think his is the first case. although many sammyboy forumners should have been charged under this law the moment it came out. heheheheheh. Since he is the first lead case in this new law, they have to make sure they know what they are doing and not fuck it up. Better to take their time and get it right or rush it and let Abraham rape their backside in court.
 

bobby

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Vergis is also renown for his pro bono work for CLAS...maybe he no charge Li Shengwu.
 

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Vergis is also renown for his pro bono work for CLAS...maybe he no charge Li Shengwu.

Vergis is already taking a big risk by defending Shengwu. he is earning the ire of Whore Jinx and Gay Loong and the establishment. If Vergis was still with Drew and Napier and Shengwu approached him to be his lawyer, D & N senior partners will come to him to not take his case, Or else go somewhere else
 

scroobal

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Vergis was picked for a particular reason. His forte is negotiation and arbitration. So that should indicate where this going. Note that Vergis declined to speak to the press except to acknowledge his appointment. It also send a signal to AG and whoever is going to sit on the bench.

Vergis is also renown for his pro bono work for CLAS...maybe he no charge Li Shengwu.
 

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Vergis was picked for a particular reason. His forte is negotiation and arbitration. So that should indicate where this going. Note that Vergis declined to speak to the press except to acknowledge his appointment. It also send a signal to AG and whoever is going to sit on the bench.

Where is this going, O Brilliant one? There is no fucking negotiation here and this is not an arbitration case. Its a criminal case, he wasn't hired to negotiate or arbitrate this one. If AG chambers charge you, u have to fight it or plead guilty. Simi arbitrate and negotiate? Can bargain one ah? The best that the AG Chambers can do is offer Shengwu a deal. They cannot dismiss charges now, or it will look like nepotism and it will make Gay Loong lose face. They have to proceed with the charge. The only result they want is that he plead guilty and they offer him a fine or something like that, in some manner of plea bargain. But he will not do that, as he rightly knows he did nothing wrong. If they go to court, it will be long and dragged out in the public and god know what skeleton Shengwu will expose. and that's definitely not what they want either.
 
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