Yong Vui Kong’s appeal set for Jan 2011
September 2nd, 2010 | 
Author: January 2011 – that’s the date the Registrar of the Supreme Court has set for the Court of Appeal to hear Yong Vui Kong’s appeal against the High Court’s decision on his judicial review application.
Vui Kong’s lawyer was today informed that the appeal hearing has been set “for the week commencing 17 January 2011”.
“This early notice is to give sufficient time for parties to be ready for the hearing, though we are aware that the record of appeals and cases have still not been filed,” the Registrar’s letter said.
The High Court had, on 13 August, dismissed Vui Kong’s appeal for judicial review concerning the authority to grant presidential clemency. Justice Chong ruled that the power to grant clemency “rests solely with the Cabinet” and that the President has no discretion in this.
Justice Chong also laid down that the courts have no power to review the clemency process.
The court was asked to adjudicate on Law Minister K Shanmugam’s remarks made in public before Vui Kong had filed his appeal for presidential clemency and while the Court of Appeal was deliberating Vui Kong’s appeal against his sentence. Vui Kong’s lawyer, Mr M Ravi, argued that the minister’s remarks had prejudiced Vui Kong’s appeal. Justice Chong, in his ruling, said he saw “nothing objectionable about the Minister’s statement”.
Mr Ravi later submitted a notice of appeal to the courts informing them that he intends to appeal Justice Chong’s decisions.
Vui Kong was originally scheduled to be hanged on 4 December 2009.
The original deadline for Vui Kong to submit his presidential clemency appeal was 26 August. The Singapore Prison Service has since informed Mr Ravi that it has extended the deadline until after the Court of Appeal’s hearing.
In the meantime, the Malaysian government sent a letter of appeal for clemency to the Singapore government on Vui Kong’s behalf on 29 July. The Singapore government has yet to respond to the letter. On 26 August, a group of Malaysian lawyers and parliamentarians handed a memorandum to the Singapore High Commission in Kuala Lumpur asking for Singapore to show mercy to Vui Kong.
Vui Kong’s family, together with MP for Sabah, Datuk Chua Soon Bui, and supporters, paid a visit to the Istana on 24 August to plead for Vui Kong to be given a second chance. The family members handed over 100,000 signatures collected in both Malaysia and Singapore in support of the plea. (Read TOC’s report here.)
The campaign to save Vui Kong has gathered pace in recent weeks, with many non-governmental organizations, politicians (both from the ruling party and from the opposition), Buddhists associations and youth groups, giving their support to the clemency request.
Singapore’s President, SR Nathan, has never granted any clemency appeals in his 11 years in office as Head of State.
* Reproduced with permission from The Online Citizen
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Give him a “second chance”, drag on, give his family and him false hope, then crush it all. The higher they go, the further they will fall!
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Nathan is just a flower vase for display at Istana. Nathan only got POWER to order his PA to buy roti prata plus masala chicken at Jalan Kayu….Comon nathan…rebel PAP now like previous President Ong. You’ll always remember by all Singaporeans n Jalan kayu roti prata boss.
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Drag so long but in the end still sentenced to death.
For what?
NBCB…
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This fellow sure die wan!
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Drug boss to hang
But his girlfriend escapes the gallows
By Selina Lum
THE leader of a drug syndicate was yesterday sentenced to hang for trafficking in more than 60g of heroin, but his Thai girlfriend, who was tried on the same charge, escaped the gallows.
The High Court believed the testimony of Phuthita Somchit, 35, who said in her defence that she knew she was dealing in drugs but that she did not know it was heroin.
Her boyfriend, Singaporean Quek Hock Lye, 45, did not put up any defence.
Giving his decision yesterday after 17 days of hearing, Justice Lee Seiu Kin made the unusual move of stepping down her charge to attempting to traffic in a Class C drug, although the drug is still listed as heroin, which is under Class A.
After the charge was reduced, Deputy Public Prosecutor Stella Tan expressed her reservations about the amendment.
She questioned why it was Class C – the least serious category under the Misuse of Drugs Act – and not Class B.
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HA HA HA! So very obvious and so is the Judiciary is mired in the conflicting and contradicting “webs” of amendment bills of old and new laws and ss are the PAP GAHmen and then the affected Judiciary by the laws sanctioned in parliament? Just a lay man’s Common Sense and Sensibilty thoughts in – Well – some very Sensible THINKING! As I remember those untelevized speeches of Worker’s Party Chairman Sylvia Lim’s speeches in parliament posted in YouTube. Like the GRC Bill having conflicting requirement within itself and also conflicting with the original GE law too!
When men in charge write and rewrite laws to “fix” a problem in polictics for self-centred gain or lobsided/blindside as “solutions, they actually create many more problems later then the one they were “trying” to solve!
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3/9/10
Sad day for our Modern Singapore history and this shows our PAP government is weak and gave in to outside pressure and if I am the PM today, I will just go ahead and make sure that this scum is hang at all costs and no mercies must be show orelse this will further weaken our Modern Singapore as an independent and soverign nation. Further, this gives Ravi the lawyer credit and when comes the next General Election, he is sure to be a candidate for the Reform Party and will capitalise on this issue…..sad.
Death Penalty must be maintained at all costs for drugs trafficking, murder and treason, at all costs and no mercy must be show and I have made my stand ie hang my own only brother who is a Drug Syndicate King in Penang and the richest man in Penang and having tens of millions of investments in Singapore and many fellow netcitizens challenged me if Vong is my only son or if my mother, I replied no mercy and I will not shed my tears as I put our Modern Singapore and her national interests above all things.
Regards
Andrew Chuah
Ordinary Singaporean
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@Andrew Chuah,
To reject outrightly, what one knows not or lacks insight is the highest form of ignorance and as for signing off as Ordinary – no lah, that is being hypocritical. One who is ordinary wont post and even if he/does it would be level-headed and allowing and acknowledging, though not necessarily accepting, which one does not have to.
What is so palbable is the bigotry, the prejudice and sticking to beleifs and dead ones at that!
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How about hanging your mother and father?
Hang your bloody balls okay? Oops I forgot, you are an eunuch.
You ballsless fxcker! Pui!!
Stop being a hypocrite
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Is Andrew Chuah a bigot in disguise of MANDATORY Death Penalty? That “M”word he DARED NOT to wirte in as “Precedence”! Hasn’t he read my arguments and responses to him before too? Circumstances can faill a person. Like the LKY mentality, only the PAP can relish in absolute authority after having made gastly mistakes! And isn’t lky the biggest culprit! Andrew Chuah need to see a “Head Hunter Doctor” to smash his very head to pulp and then to eat his brain! That’s the quality of his brain in a Civil Society? Didn’t LHL claim that we are and what has he and his daddy-o been chanting and SEE-SAWING in political self-embarassments!
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You should love party country thailand.. It was so super in thai-land. Plus what all of us really love tha most are the flying thai lanterns.
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