If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: Blogger Alex Au.
Blogger Alex Au has apologised to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for comments deemed as defamatory about the sale of computer systems used by town councils in his article, PAP mis-AIMed, faces blowback... Last July, he apologised after commenting on the case of plastic surgeon Woffles Wus traffic fine, after the Attorney-Generals Chambers wrote to him to say that his post was contemptuous of the courts for alleging that courts were biased towards the��.
From bus drivers strike to the Yahoo Licence Rules.
These are the Yahoo reports I found from an archival search:. This harks back to an implicit rule faithfully abided by government-friendly media such as the Straits Times and Channel NewsAsia that requires all reporters to check with the relevant ministry for its perspective before.. Seems to me that their worry should be to bring out the truth, if they think Alex was wrong about his purported allegations about the judiciary, rather than hold him for ���contempt of court���.
High Court adjourns AGCs application to take blogger to court for contempt
A High Court application made by the Attorney-Generals Chambers to launch contempt of court action against sociopolitical blogger Alex Au Wai Pang has been adjourned for a day by Justice Belinda Ang. -- FILE PHOTO: ATTORNEY-GENERALS CHAMBERS. The.
Singapore top court tackles challenge to 1938 ban on gay sex
A two-day hearing before a three-judge panel began today. Singapore. Blogger Alex Au Wai Pang was accused in November of being in contempt by allegedly insinuating the courts planned to rig hearing dates on the challenge.. ���It is not one which.
Singapores Attorney-General Gets Blogger to Apologize for.
The citys Attorney-General threatened to charge Au, also known as Alex Au, with contempt unless the blog post was taken down, and a letter from the Attorney-General and an apology were posted. British author Alan Shadrake was convicted of contempt of court in November 2010 for his book, ���Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapores Justice in the Dock,��� which accused the citys judiciary of succumbing to political influence and. 5 most read articles in past 7 days:.
Part 2 of Religion, Donation, and Alleged Corruption.
Somewhere in the Caldecott Broadcast Centre, the head honcho at CNA was unhappy with fact that CNA lost the breaking tweet to The Strait Times and that CNA was getting fewer retweets. ���What! WE LOST? Only 131.. Nizam is puzzled as to why the MCYS (Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports) and the COC (Commissioner of Charities) concluded its investigations when the court had not even found Kong Hee and the rest guilty. Furthermore, he��.
Tuesday #sgroundup: Dead baby found off Bedok Jetty, mother arrested for.
The mother of an 18-month-old infant found dead in waters off Bedok Jetty has been arrested for murder. (Getty ���. According to a report by The Straits Times, police issued a statement on Tuesday regarding the arrest, adding that investigations are.
Book: Legal Consensus, by Tey Tsun Hang | Yawning Bread
Our courts engage in national formalism and textual literalism, and judgements often lack rigour and depth, coming as they do with insufficiently articulated assertions (quotes from page 70). In a cited. Worse yet, many of the defences available in defamation cases are not available in contempt of court cases, despite the similarities between the two.. In other words, even if what you say is true, so long as it brings disrepute to the judiciary, you are still guilty!
Suppressing dissent in Singapore: A Chronology 1994-2006
Dr.Lingle and the Singapore printer were subsequently fined for contempt of court by way of scandalising the judiciary and ordered to pay the governments legal costs, totalling in excess of $100,000. Dr Lingle did not. A month later, 73 year old grandmother Yu Nguk Ding was arrested for carrying two ���undesirable publications��� ��� one of them a bible printed by the group.. In a summary judgment pronounced by the registrar, Chee was found guilty of defamation.
Woffles Wu case hits a nerve | Yawning Bread
Related posts: 1. Using power to give immunity to the powerful 2. Using power to give immunity to the powerful, part 2.. If he could, it would be at least 4 full pages of a Straits Time ���special��� and he wouldnt need to.. And so the ���innocent until proven guilty��� principle applies.. The availability of the charge of contempt of court defends the courts integrity not AGCs! you cannot deny that Alex has indeed been scandalising our judicial system and without basis at all.
Alex Au vs AGC ��� a matter of liability or good faith?
Mr Au, a blogger, was charged for allegedly suggesting in two blog posts, published in October 2013, that the court has deliberately managed the hearing times of two constitutional cases on Section 377A so that a particular Chief Justice can sit the.
Crime, Corruption, Scandal and Professional Misconduct 3
A separate report on Straits Times said Asuncion helped her husband by recruiting women to work as performing artists in the pubs whenever she returned home to the Philippines... The two articles published last year by blogger Alex Au Wai Pang ��� which were at the centre of a court hearing today (Oct 21) to determine whether he was in contempt of court ��� were not fair criticism and posed a real risk of undermining public confidence in the administration of��.
Blogger Alex Au apologizes for post on Woffles Wu after.
Every single one of them felt that the courts have acted leniently towards Woffles because of his status and connections. And most of these people do not follow social media blogs. They read mainly the Straits Times.
AGC versus me, the 2013 round | Yawning Bread
The judge decides to grant leave on one of the two articles in which the AGC alleges scandalised the judiciary ��� 377 wheels come off Supreme Courts best-laid plans ��� but refuses to grant leave over the other article ��� Church... of the Grand Army of the Universe, and the laws of the Federation of the Universe, I pronounce blogger Alex Au Waipang, of Yawning Bread (https://yawningbread.wordpress.com/), not guilty of contempt of court charges in Singapore.
A pink dot in a sea of rights abuses | Yawning Bread
Things have gotten so bad that even within the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), the one party with a peerless record of arguing for human rights, involving at times civil disobedience, there are calls to disavow that record and forswear future protests.. And not because this is his blog and I want to score brownie points, but I did wonder after the first Pink Dot why even Alex Au, Singapore`s most well known gay activist, wasn`t a speaker there as I had expected.
Anonymous_X: Alex Au: The Art of Winning by Losing
I read this article by Straits Times, Blogger apologises for post on Woffles Wu case which prompted me to find out more about Alex Au (the Yawning Bread blogger). His particular post, dated 18/06 titled Woffles Wu case hits��.
Vox squawk | Yawning Bread
It may not be related, but its nonetheless an interesting conjunction of events that the strike story was followed by not one, but two, op-eds in the Straits Times casting aspersions on the political value of opinions expressed in alternative... journalists, however, need to show information-gathering capabilities; they ought to have been able to find the source of the strike information by good footwork (but maybe now phoning Alex Au is part of the footwork track already).
Alex Au vs AGC ��� a matter of liability or good faith? | The.
Mr Au, a blogger, was charged for allegedly suggesting in two blog posts, published in October 2013, that the court has deliberately managed the hearing times of two constitutional cases on Section 377A so that a particular Chief Justice can sit the case.. Mr Tai cited the case of Alan Shadrake, the British author and journalist found guilty of scandalising the court, where Judge Quentin Loh had indicated that an essential part of remarks made in good faith is based on��.
reading Using power to give immunity to the powerful, part 2
It is contempt however to say that the court was biased if there is no objective rational basis to do so, as Alex Au did.. as the offence of ���scandalising the courts��� to cause a blogger to issue an apology and remove an offending article which has accused the courts here of being biased, to which we may add that the blogger was merely expressing a perception which is widely held.. http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_823176.html. 1.
Blogger Alex Au found guilty of court contempt for one of two articles
SINGAPORE - The High Court has found blogger Alex Au guilty of court contempt for one article where he implied the Chief Justice was partial in relation to the constitutional challenges mounted against S377A. The court however found that his remarks in.
PAP went on trial last week | Yawning Bread
My trial for contempt of court, part 1: first article, first sting ��. (There are also reports in the Straits Times and I would have provided the links to them except that the Straits Times is behind a paywall.) The bombshell. The judge, however, agreed with [NEA prosecutor Isaac] Tans objection that the issue surrounding the conditions for a permit should not be argued in the present trial but at a judicial review. ��� Straits. I have highlighted two passages in yellow. Besides��.