If he doesn't want to fight, we can imply that he is kiam seap.
If he goes crowdfund his lawsuit, he PROVES he is kiam seap.
I can understand people like Roy Ngerng and Leong Sze Hian going for crowdfunding. But Yang is so rich
And it's precisely because he is rich, and he still doesn't want fight, it makes him look really kiam seap. Hello ! The wife is not a housewife, ok ? Some big shot corporate lawyer.
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SINGAPORE – Cabinet ministers K. Shanmugam and Vivian Balakrishnan, who are
suing Mr Lee Hsien Yang for defamation over his comments relating to their rental of two bungalows in Ridout Road, have applied to serve court papers on him by Facebook Messenger.
In court documents obtained by The Straits Times, lawyers acting for the two ministers made the application on the grounds that it was impractical to serve the court papers on Mr Lee personally in Britain.
The lawyers, from Davinder Singh Chambers, also stated that “substituted service by Facebook Messenger will probably be effective in bringing the court papers to the notice of the defendant”.
Substituted service refers to methods of serving court papers when attempts to serve them in person have been unsuccessful.
Methods of substituted service include the posting of court documents on the front door of the defendant’s premises, sending the documents by registered post or by e-mail, or placing an advertisement in the newspapers.
The ministers are seeking a court order that the papers are deemed to have been served by sending the documents in portable document format, or PDF, by Facebook Messenger to Mr Lee’s profile page on the social networking platform.
Mr Shanmugam, who is Law and Home Affairs Minister, and Dr Balakrishnan, who is Foreign Minister, had filed separate defamation suits in the High Court against Mr Lee on Aug 2.
Mr Lee is the younger son of founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew and brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
The legal action arose over a public post on Mr Lee Hsien Yang’s Facebook page made on July 23.
The post stated, among other things, that “two ministers have leased state-owned mansions from the agency that one of them controls, felling trees and getting state-sponsored renovations”.
Mr Shanmugam and Dr Balakrishnan are seeking damages and an injunction to restrain Mr Lee Hsien Yang from publishing or disseminating the allegations, which they assert are false and defamatory.
They contend that the offending words – which meant that they had been given preferential treatment – are “false and baseless” and “were calculated to disparage and impugn” them.
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