SINGAPORE: A woman who kept suing the National University of Singapore after it terminated her candidature in 2006 has been restrained from pursuing any court action over the issue for two years.
In a judgment issued on Thursday , Justice Kwek Mean Luck granted NUS' application and imposed a civil restraint order of two years on Ms Ten, the maximum period allowed. She was supposed to complete her course and obtain her master's degree by mid-2005. As a requirement, she had to complete a 40,000-word thesis, supervised by Dr Wong Yunn Chii, in order to graduate.
She later wrote to school authorities to complain about Dr Wong, asking for him to be removed as her supervisor, but the Head of Department saw no reason to do so. She had been told that the examiners would be recommending to the Board of Graduate Studies that she be awarded the degree, but this was subject to her giving a more detailed account and analysis of certain areas in her thesis and making some changes.