How dare FEER defamed MM Lee, who had single-handedly transform Singapore from a sleeping fishing village to a first world country.
The editors of FEER will be bankrupts and as usual, MM Lee and PM Lee will donate the damages to charitable causes. God Bless Them Both!
Court rules FEER defamed PM Lee, MM Lee in 2006 article
By Margaret Perry, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 23 September 2008 2349 hrs
SINGAPORE : The Singapore High Court has held that the publisher and editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) had defamed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew in an article two years ago.
It has granted summary judgment to the two Singapore leaders, after ruling that the defendants had no defence.
The court has awarded the Lees damages, which will be assessed at a later date.
The defendants - Review Publishing and the magazine's editor, Hugo Restall - have also been ordered not to publish, sell or disseminate the defamatory allegations in Singapore.
In his judgment, Justice Woo Bih Lih found that the words used in the article published in July 2006 meant that the two leaders were unfit for office as they were corrupt.
He rejected the defences of justification, fair comment and qualified privilege raised by the defendants.
In line with a previous Court of Appeal decision, Justice Woo upheld the legal position in Singapore that no general media privilege exists unless there are special facts. - CNA /ls
The editors of FEER will be bankrupts and as usual, MM Lee and PM Lee will donate the damages to charitable causes. God Bless Them Both!
Court rules FEER defamed PM Lee, MM Lee in 2006 article
By Margaret Perry, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 23 September 2008 2349 hrs
SINGAPORE : The Singapore High Court has held that the publisher and editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) had defamed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew in an article two years ago.
It has granted summary judgment to the two Singapore leaders, after ruling that the defendants had no defence.
The court has awarded the Lees damages, which will be assessed at a later date.
The defendants - Review Publishing and the magazine's editor, Hugo Restall - have also been ordered not to publish, sell or disseminate the defamatory allegations in Singapore.
In his judgment, Justice Woo Bih Lih found that the words used in the article published in July 2006 meant that the two leaders were unfit for office as they were corrupt.
He rejected the defences of justification, fair comment and qualified privilege raised by the defendants.
In line with a previous Court of Appeal decision, Justice Woo upheld the legal position in Singapore that no general media privilege exists unless there are special facts. - CNA /ls
