Justice Hoo rubbished Mr Xu’s argument that Ms O’Connor was merely criticising the AGC. The judge found that a reference to “the system of justice in Singapore” would include the judiciary as a whole.
The judge also found that the gist of the article’s allegations was that AGC and the courts were complicit in the persecution of certain people in Singapore for political reasons.“Although the article is framed as a criticism of the omissions in the Chief Justice’s speech, the central message it seeks to convey is that the Chief Justice did not mention certain cases because they arose from political persecution and were not determined on their merits by the courts,” she added.
"As the Chief Editor of TOC, a website which professes to be ‘Singapore’s longest-running independent online media platform’, he failed to practise responsible journalism, and instead proceeded to publish scurrilous allegations against the courts,” she added.
About time you journalists found some courage. What has Freedom House just published about an independent judiciary in Singapore?