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Sep 1, 2008
Chee's appeal dismissed Chee Siok Chin to pay Attorney-General's Chambers $1,000.
By Jeremy Au Yong
After a two-hour closed door session in the Supreme Court, Judge Tan Lee Meng dismissed her application and ordered Ms Chee (left) to pay costs of $1,000 to the Attorney-General's Chambers. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
Jeremy Au Yong
OPPOSITION politician bid to challenge in Court the decision preventing her from leaving the country ended on Monday morning.
After a two-hour closed door session in the Supreme Court, Judge Tan Lee Meng dismissed her application and ordered Ms Chee to pay costs of $1,000 to the Attorney-General's Chambers.
She had filed an application three weeks ago to have a decision by the Official Assignee (OA) reviewed in Court. The OA had denied her permission to leave the country to attend a programme at Stanford University in the United States.
In written submissions, the Attorney-General's Office had argued that the OA turned down her request because she had not been co-operative.
It also argued that she had delayed legal proceedings until the US programme was over, the application had no useful purpose.
In her affidavit, which had been posted online, Ms Chee said that the reason given to her was that the trip would be of no benefit to her creditors.
She added that she would be paid $2,000 for speaking at the programme.
This morning Mr Chia Ti Lik, Ms Chee's lawyer, said that she did not intend to appeal the decision.
Sep 1, 2008
Chee's appeal dismissed Chee Siok Chin to pay Attorney-General's Chambers $1,000.
By Jeremy Au Yong

After a two-hour closed door session in the Supreme Court, Judge Tan Lee Meng dismissed her application and ordered Ms Chee (left) to pay costs of $1,000 to the Attorney-General's Chambers. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
Jeremy Au Yong
OPPOSITION politician bid to challenge in Court the decision preventing her from leaving the country ended on Monday morning.
After a two-hour closed door session in the Supreme Court, Judge Tan Lee Meng dismissed her application and ordered Ms Chee to pay costs of $1,000 to the Attorney-General's Chambers.
She had filed an application three weeks ago to have a decision by the Official Assignee (OA) reviewed in Court. The OA had denied her permission to leave the country to attend a programme at Stanford University in the United States.
In written submissions, the Attorney-General's Office had argued that the OA turned down her request because she had not been co-operative.
It also argued that she had delayed legal proceedings until the US programme was over, the application had no useful purpose.
In her affidavit, which had been posted online, Ms Chee said that the reason given to her was that the trip would be of no benefit to her creditors.
She added that she would be paid $2,000 for speaking at the programme.
This morning Mr Chia Ti Lik, Ms Chee's lawyer, said that she did not intend to appeal the decision.