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http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100820-0000049/Stop-your-ranting--Judge
Stop your ranting: Judge
by Ng Jing Yng
05:55 AM Aug 20, 2010
SINGAPORE - Time and again, the judge warned the former civil servant, who is seeking redress for alleged wrong dismissal, to stop talking.
But each time, Mdm Linda Lai Swee Lin, 54, blatantly ignored the judge's order - even after she was warned she could be held in contempt of court and policemen were called in.
Yesterday, Mdm Lai created a stir in the High Court as she insisted on reading out a prepared speech and disregarded the court procedure, prompting a visibly-annoyed Justice Lai Siu Chiu to ask her to "stop your ranting".
Mdm Lai, who is representing herself, is hoping to get reinstated at the Land Office of the Law Ministry.
On Monday - the first day of the hearing - the Government conceded there was a breach in its employment contract when Mdm Lai lost her job in December 1998.
The hearing resumed yesterday and Mdm Lai took the opportunity to begin her speech - in which she ranted against the civil service - when she was asked to cross-examine her former superior Liew Choon Boon.
Mdm Lai passed up her chance to cross-examine five other witnesses - comprising mostly her former colleagues - as she continued reading from the piece of paper.
"I am totally exhausted. However, if I walk away ... the truth would be buried," she said. The hearing continues. NG JING YNG
Stop your ranting: Judge
by Ng Jing Yng
05:55 AM Aug 20, 2010
SINGAPORE - Time and again, the judge warned the former civil servant, who is seeking redress for alleged wrong dismissal, to stop talking.
But each time, Mdm Linda Lai Swee Lin, 54, blatantly ignored the judge's order - even after she was warned she could be held in contempt of court and policemen were called in.
Yesterday, Mdm Lai created a stir in the High Court as she insisted on reading out a prepared speech and disregarded the court procedure, prompting a visibly-annoyed Justice Lai Siu Chiu to ask her to "stop your ranting".
Mdm Lai, who is representing herself, is hoping to get reinstated at the Land Office of the Law Ministry.
On Monday - the first day of the hearing - the Government conceded there was a breach in its employment contract when Mdm Lai lost her job in December 1998.
The hearing resumed yesterday and Mdm Lai took the opportunity to begin her speech - in which she ranted against the civil service - when she was asked to cross-examine her former superior Liew Choon Boon.
Mdm Lai passed up her chance to cross-examine five other witnesses - comprising mostly her former colleagues - as she continued reading from the piece of paper.
"I am totally exhausted. However, if I walk away ... the truth would be buried," she said. The hearing continues. NG JING YNG