SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Cabinet ministers K. Shanmugam and Vivian Balakrishnan, who are suing Lee Hsien Yang for defamation over his comments relating to their rental of two bungalows in Ridout Road, have applied to serve court papers on him by Facebook Messenger.
In court documents obtained by The Straits Times, lawyers acting for the two ministers made the application on the grounds that it was impractical to serve the court papers on Lee personally in Britain.
The ministers are seeking a court order that the papers are deemed to have been served by sending the documents in Portable Document Format, or PDF, by Facebook Messenger to Lee’s profile page on the social networking platform. The legal action arose over a public post on Lee Hsien Yang’s Facebook page made on July 23. The post stated, among other things, that that “two ministers have leased state-owned mansions from the agency that one of them controls, felling trees and getting state-sponsored renovations”.
In the letter, each minister also sought $25,000, which they said they would donate to charity. The letter stated that the sum was a fraction of the substantial damages each minister was entitled in law to recover if they were to start legal proceedings.
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