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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