Saturday, December 12, 2009

Yes, Virginia, There Might Be A Santa Claus After All Today In ...

Human rights counsel Mr M Ravi, in an talk by Chia Li Tik, mentions a fate of a twenty-two year old Malaysian child whose death chastisement box had run its course, as well as what a Singapore probity told him, We cant re-open a box since a make a difference is already concluded. The probity only does not have a energy to re-open a case. In what contingency have been a decisive moment in his life, Ravi asked a Chief Justice (CJ), Are you afterwards observant which an trusting male can be hanged in Singapore only since of procedural matters? That equates to you cant re-open a box even if a male is innocent? Then CJ Yong Pung How simply repiled, Yes. The answer is yes. Man, thats sufficient to drive a man to drink.

On Tuesday 8 Nov, a Court of Appeal, comprising Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong as well as Judges of Appeal Andrew Phang as well as V.K. Rajah, motionless to give Yong Vui Kong, who was granted a last-minute stay of execution last week, some-more time to file a new appeal. Public prosecutors had objected to a move, arguing which probity proceedings had run their full march as well as a appeals probity had no energy to listen to Yongs application. But CJ Chan pronounced which it was an unusual box where a Court of Appeal has not heard a merits of an interest as it was withdrawn by Yong. After conference legal arguments from Yongs lawyer, Mr M. Ravi, a appeals probity was confident which it had a energy to allow a interest to proceed.

In his first week of office, Steven Chong, allocated Judicial Commissioner (JC) effective 1 Oct 2009, warned which judges contingency not pressure parties in a box to solve their dispute quickly, nor should they have up their minds about a box before conference all a arguments. He was articulate about a decider Mr Sambasivam faced when he took a Nim Garden Condominium government cabinet to probity for breach of contract. Heres what a schooled hearing decider essentially said:

Right now, my sole sense of your firmness is zero. You will suffer a conse! quences when I have a judgement.
Its like you win a conflict as well as lose a war. if which happens, Ill award $1 judgement. Im sure anybody here will be happy to take $1 from his slot as well as compensate you.
Do you want ot rethink your strategy now?
Even if you win, you suffered (sic) a loss; does it have sense to go upon if you are not getting anything?
Nim Minimart has suffered a loss, even if you win this case, you get zero.

Whoa, lucky for him, Sambasivam wasnt wearing a T-Shirt with a design of an Australian marsupial which day! The remarks, which JC Chong after described as beyond small discourtesy, constrained Sambasivam to solve a make a difference even yet he had not accomplished giving evidence. He after took a make a difference to a High Court, which ordered a retrial under a opposite judge. Lawyers contacted did not think a decider was under pressure to transparent cases quickly. At an annual cooking during his term as president of a Law Society (1990-1992), Chelvarajah had perceived a station acclaim when he took a dig at Chief Justice Yong Pung Hows demands to transparent backlogs quickly, When you talk about probity behind being probity denied, you contingency additionally remember which probity brisk is probity buried.

Mr Sambasivam told a press he was beholden to be since a second chance to have his box heard: Kudos should go to a judiciary as well as I am very happy for a way things have incited out. The splendid star in a sky this Christmas could be only be which star upon a national dwindle representing probity after all.

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