PM Lee’s threat to sue The Online Citizen
Even on a Sunday (1st September 2019) the press secretary to the prime minister had to work. And it was not even work for the country though the threatening three-page letter was written on official stationery. The prime minister is unhappy because of an article and a facebook post that allegedly repeated his siblings’ falsehoods...
Hypothetical case of a suit for defamation
I was asked - Mr. Tan, if someone published a statement that you were a thief and you did not sue the author and later, another person published another statement using the fact in the first statement, can you sue the second person for defamation? By not acting on the first statement, did you indirectly accept that the statement...
Some thoughts on PM Lee’s letter to TOC
It is kind of strange for the Prime Minister to use his Press Secretary - paid by taxpayer's monies - to write a letter to TOC Terry to deal with an entirely personal matter of defamation. The usual practice is to ask his own personal lawyer to send a letter of demand to anyone who have deemed to defame him. I am curious: what...
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