Court of Appeal partially allows SDP's POFMA appeal in landmark judgment; other correction directions upheld

In a first, the Court of Appeal overturned part of a correction direction issued by the Ministry of Manpower against the SDP for statements it had made about unemployment in Singapore. However, the court upheld two other correction directions against SDP, as well as the other part of the third correction direction.

This was a contentious issue in the court hearings that took place in the lower courts before the matter came to the Apex Court - with two High Court judges ruling differently - one that the minister has to prove the statement is false, and one that the respondent has to prove his statement is true. MOM said that SDP's graph showing plunging employment of local professionals, managers, executives and technicians was false, giving statistics to show that local PMETs employment had risen steadily since 2015.

SDP had failed in its attempts to override the correction directions at every stage before this - the minister rejected its response, and theThe correction direction that SDP partially succeeded in appealing against was based on a December 2019 Facebook advertisement. SDP put up the ad containing a link to an older article titled: SDP Population Policy: Hire S'poreans First, Retrench S'poreans Last.

Chief Justice Menon noted that the overall thrust of the SDP article was to provide solutions targeted at Singaporeans who were displaced from PMET jobs by foreigners, and did not mention Singapore permanent residents.

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