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$4.8m dispute: Widow wants to move on

Posted on 18 Oct 2009 | Comments Off on $4.8m dispute: Widow wants to move on
The property at the centre of the tussle has since been demolished and rebuilt. — ST FILE PHOTO ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM
Madam Chen (left) and her late husband’s elder brother had been involved in a court dispute over a $4.8 million property. — ST FILE PHOTO ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM

It has been more than four years since her husband and son died in a tragic fashion, but thinking about them still brings tears to her eyes.

‘It’s like stabbing a knife in my heart each time I talk and think about what happened,’ Madam Chen Tsui Yu, 56, said in Mandarin yesterday. Continue reading →

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Does Court of Appeal have powers to reopen own case?

Posted on 10 Oct 2009 | Comments Off on Does Court of Appeal have powers to reopen own case?

A CIVIL suit before the courts in Singapore has set a landmark poser.

The issue: Does the highest court in the land have the powers to reopen and set aside its own judgments?

It pitted one top lawyer against another in the High Court, in a debate behind closed doors before Justice Choo Han Teck on Wednesday.

He has reserved judgment.

The issue began in 2005, when a three-judge panel in the Court of Appeal ruled in a 2-1 decision that residents of Grange Heights condominium could use an access path leading to their development.

The path runs through a Grange Road property owned by Lee Tat Development.

In 2007, when Grange Heights went to the High Court to ask for a ruling on its building of a proper road, the court said it saw no need to do this, as the matter was bound by the 2005 ruling. Continue reading →

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