The case conference will be on Tuesday, according to the hearing list published on the Singapore Courts website.Both ministers sent lawyers’ letters to Mr Lee in July, saying they would sue him unless he apologised, retracted his allegations and paid damages.
In a post on July 23, Mr Lee claimed the “two ministers have leased state-owned mansions from the agency that one of them controls, felling trees and getting state-sponsored renovations”. The agency he referred to is the Singapore Land Authority. Mr Lee put up a correction notice but published a new post two days later, saying he stood by what he wrote.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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