I am disgusted with Lee Hsien Yang (LHY).

I am disgusted with Lee Hsien Yang (LHY). I have no intent to impugn or disparage the Learned Queen’s Counsel he used, but one thing has been clear to me since the Disciplinary Tribunal findings and the GE2020 – this younger son of LKY is consistently dishonest.

During the hearing before the Disciplinary Tribunal, LHY admitted that his public statements (including his Facebook posts) were inaccurate. His excuse was that his public statements did not need to be accurate, so long as they were not sworn statements or statements made to the Stock Exchange.

Lee Suet Fern (LSF) also lied.

The Court of Three Judges found that LHY and LSF were not telling the truth, and that they had made untrue and false statements. The Court also found that LSF had acted with a “degree of dishonesty in the disciplinary proceedings”.

LSF acted in complete disregard for Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s interests in getting him to sign the Last Will. Mr Lee signed the Last Will because he did not imagine that LSF, his daughter-in-law, would have misrepresented the position to him, and he acted based on her assurances to him, and on the advice of LHY.

These are damning findings. LHY and LSF have been vocal in their objections. But LHY is going too far by seeking opinions from overseas to defend him and his wife.

He should know that there is no appeal against the decision of the of Three Judges, which is the highest Court overseeing disciplinary proceedings of lawyers in Singapore. The Chief Justice himself pronounced the judgment.

It is one thing for LHY to not accept this judgment, and another for him to use the opinion of foreigners to attack the decisions of our courts, including our Chief Justice.

While it is obvious that the findings have stung LHY and LSF, this does not give them the right to invite foreigners to attack our judiciary.

When LHY does not get what he wants, he is prepared to attack and bring the whole system down. That is not the action of someone with our country’s interests at heart.

In this case, it is obvious that if you’ve got money, you can appoint even a Queen’s Counsel (QC) to defend you.

LHY may think that the QC’s opinion will improve the public opinion of LSF, but those well-versed in the law will see that some points in the QC’s opinion do not apply in Singapore’s legal context.

While there are similarities between our two systems, they are separate, and the QC cannot apply UK principles wholesale to a Singapore case. The UK Code of Conduct expressly permits a lawyer to act for or advise her family members on their wills, but Singapore law does not permit this.

Did LHY or LSF know this before they published the opinion?

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