CRIMINAL lawyer Subhas Anandan wonders if there is one law for the rich and another for the poor.....
Case 1:
LAW FOR POOR: For instance, the victim of a road rage incident had accepted an ex gratia payment after being assaulted by a certain Mr Timothy Chua. However, the magistrate withheld the composition as he felt that would be going against the strict policy on road rage incidents, a view upheld by then Chief Justice Yong Pung How. The matter went to trial and Mr Chua was fined the maximum $1,000, but the victim lost the compensation of $8,000.
LAW FOR RICH: On the other hand, when the accused is well-off or a professional, the offender is allowed to compound the offence with no objection from the prosecutors. Those thus let off cited by Mr Anandan included a dentist, a doctor and the wife of Venture Corporation head Wong Ngit Liong, who slapped an air stewardess during a flight.
Call him a Criminal Lawyer or People's Lawyer, at least someone is standing up against our legal system. How come no mention about special law for "Ah Moh" or "Expat" & local law? Our legal “Preferential” system is stagnated, frozen in time, and still practices like in the old Colonial days (pro-whites)