Lee Kuan Yew v Tang Liang Hong and Another

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date12 November 1997
Date12 November 1997
Docket NumberCivil Appeals Nos 63-64, 111-121
CourtCourt of Appeal (Singapore)

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68 cases
  • Lee Hsien Loong v Review Publishing Company Ltd
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 23 September 2008
    ...the right to protect their reputations by means of libel actions’. 34 I should mention that the case of Tang Liang Hong v Lee Kuan Yew [1998] 1 SLR 97 (“Tang Liang Hong”) was on the assessment of damages for defamation and the case of Chee Siok Chin and others v Minister for Home Affairs [2......
  • Lee Hsien Loong v Singapore Democratic Party
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 13 October 2008
    ...or politicians on the one hand and private individuals on the other. In the words of L P Thean JA in Tang Liang Hong v Lee Kuan Yew [1998] 1 SLR 97 (“Tang Liang Hong (CA)”) at [I]f a person chooses to defame another or others, he must pay for the consequences with damages to be assessed acc......
  • Lee Hsien Loong v Singapore Democratic Party and Others and Another Suit
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 6 November 2007
    ... ... also sued for defamation arising out of the same facts by Mr Lee Kuan Yew, the Minister Mentor of Singapore, in Suit No 262 of 2006. The first ... ...
  • Chee Siok Chin and Another v Attorney General
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 13 September 2006
    ...of Appeal affirmed, on the facts of that case, the judge’s refusal to recuse himself from sitting (see Tang Liang Hong v Lee Kuan Yew [1998] 1 SLR 97). 10 There was, in the present case, no basis whatsoever justifying the recusal application on actual bias. A fair-minded and reasonable obse......
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16 books & journal articles
  • WALKING THE TIGHTROPE BETWEEN LEGALITY AND LEGITIMACY
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2017, December 2017
    • 1 December 2017
    ...of Constitutional Law 516 at 516. See, eg, Jeyaretnam Joshua Benjamin v Lee Kuan Yew[1992] 1 SLR(R) 791; Tang Liang Hong v Lee Kuan Yew[1997] 3 SLR(R) 576; Goh Chok Tong v Jeyaretnam Joshua Benjamin[1998] 2 SLR(R) 971; Review Publishing Co Ltd v Lee Hsien Loong[2010] 1 SLR 52. This may be c......
  • Administrative and Constitutional Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...and ‘to escape with lesser consequences for the defamation he committed’: Roy Ngerng at [94], citing Tang Liang Hong v Lee Kuan Yew[1997] 3 SLR(R) 576 (‘Tang’), which ‘continues to be good law in Singapore’ (Roy Ngerng at [95]). Otherwise, if damages were reduced because the object of defam......
  • Civil Procedure
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2001, December 2001
    • 1 December 2001
    ...(If so, the costs to be met must be specified and, in a criminal case, the amount of the costs.)” Also see Tang Liang Hong v Lee Kuan Yew[1998] 1 SLR 97, in which these principles were applied. Assessment of damages 6.98 When damages are being assessed the court must consider all the items ......
  • WORKPLACE HARASSMENT
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...Sha v Tse Chi Pan[1999] 1 HKC 731 at [37]. 106Li Siu Lun v Kooi Kok Poh[2013] SGHCR 27 at [26]. See also Tang Liang Hong v Lee Kuan Yew[1997] 3 SLR(R) 576 at [128]. 107 See, eg, Wee Sia Tian v Long Thik Boon[1996] 2 SLR(R) 420. 108 See, eg, ACES System Development v Yenty Lily[2013] 4 SLR 1......
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