Posts Tagged ‘iba’
The Wall Street Journal chimes in on the International Bar Association’s report. Lee Kuan Yew recently noted the International Bar Association’s decision to “honor” Singapore by holding its annual conference there last year. We hope the former Prime Minister, now Minister Mentor, takes equal note of the IBA’s latest assessment of the judiciary in Singapore.
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Tags: iba, international bar association, judiciary, wall street journal, wsj
Economist: Raising the bar
The Economist adds its two cents on Lee Kuan Yew’s testimony and the mysterious case of the missing IBA letter. MEMBERS of Singapore’s government are notorious sticklers for legal exactitude. So it has been interesting to watch the reaction after the country’s elder statesman, Lee Kuan Yew—a British-trained lawyer before he became a politician—gave inaccurate […]
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Tags: chee soon juan, defamation, economist, iba, trial