Chia Foong Lin v Singapore Medical Council

JurisdictionSingapore
JudgeChao Hick Tin JA,Andrew Phang Boon Leong JA,Judith Prakash JA
Judgment Date27 June 2017
CourtHigh Court (Singapore)
Docket NumberOriginating Summons No 10 of 2016
Date27 June 2017

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4 cases
  • Wong Meng Hang v Singapore Medical Council
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 23 November 2018
    ...who had negligently failed to make prompt referrals or run diagnostic tests (for example, Chia Foong Lin v Singapore Medical Council [2017] 5 SLR 334 and the case of Dr L E (cited in Lee Kim Kwong at [35])) is simply misplaced. In our judgment, because of the utmost severity of the harm cau......
  • Goh Guan Sin v Yeo Tseng Tsai
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 27 November 2019
    ...condition had improved from that taken at 1655 hrs. Lastly, the Plaintiff cited the case of Chia Foong Lin v Singapore Medical Council [2017] 5 SLR 334 (“Chia Foong Lin”) and two medical authorities (a textbook by Majid Samii,198 and an article by Briggs and Kaye199) to argue that a CT scan......
  • Singapore Medical Council v Lim Lian Arn
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 24 July 2019
    ...when such further assessment was warranted in the circumstances: at [61]–[62]. Similarly, in Chia Foong Lin v Singapore Medical Council [2017] 5 SLR 334, we reiterated that the threshold to be crossed before misconduct may be found is a high one. Misconduct entails more than mere negligence......
  • Ho Tze Woon v Singapore Medical Council
    • Singapore
    • 11 September 2023
    ...mere negligence, professional incompetence or an error of judgment (see Lim Lian Arn at [37], Chia Foong Lin v Singapore Medical Council [2017] 5 SLR 334 at [60]–[61]). While negligence can sometimes amount to professional misconduct, it is only cases involving gross negligence that will fa......
1 books & journal articles
  • Biomedical Law and Ethics
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2017, December 2017
    • 1 December 2017
    ...alone. They do not represent the views of the State Courts of Singapore. 1 The decision in Chia Foong Lin v Singapore Medical Council [2017] 5 SLR 334 is not reviewed as no noteworthy legal issues were raised. 2 [2017] 1 SLR 918. 3 ACB v Thomson Medical Pte Ltd [2017] 1 SLR 918 at [41]. 4 A......