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SINGAPORE – Parti Liyani, a former maid of former Changi Airport Group Chairman Liew Mun Leong, initiated judicial disciplinary proceedings against prosecutors in her case.
She and her lawyer, Anil Balchandani, attended a pre-trial conference in High Court on Wednesday (September 23) against representatives of the Attorney General’s Office (AGC).
The hearing was for a subpoena originated under Section 82A of the Legal Profession Act. Section 82A covers misconduct by non-practicing legal services officers or attorneys.
The defendants featured in the case are two assistant prosecutors who handled his trial: Tan Wee Hao and Tan Yanying. They are represented by AGC’s Kristy Tan, Jeyendran Jeyapal and Jocelyn Teo.
If the Chief Justice grants Parti permission to carry out an investigation into the allegation of misconduct, he may appoint a disciplinary tribunal.
The court will then hear the case and investigate the complaint before presenting its findings to the Chief Justice. It may dismiss the complaint if the court does not find a sufficiently serious cause for disciplinary action, or order the imposition of sanctions.
Penalties include censorship, being removed from the list, a fine of up to $ 20,000, or any other order that a disciplinary court deems appropriate.
Problems with conviction findings, how the case was handled
Earlier this month, Parti was acquitted by the Superior Court of stealing $ 34,000 worth of items from Liew. This came after she was initially convicted in a lower court.
In Judge Chan Seng Onn’s ruling on his acquittal, he highlighted several problems with the conviction findings and how the case was handled.
In one case, Parti was accused of stealing a DVD player, which the family said she had thrown away because it didn’t work.
Prosecutors later admitted that they knew the machine could not play DVDs, but did not disclose this to the trial judge or Parti, when it was presented as evidence and shown to work in other ways.
This earned him criticism from Judge Chan, who said the trial court could be misled into thinking that the DVD player was in good working order when “Ms Parti was asked (and unfairly) questions … on the basis that the DVD player was still in good working order after an incomplete demonstration of its important functionalities during the test.
Judge Chan added that the rule against the presentation of bar evidence should apply equally to both the prosecution and the defense, saying that the DVD player incident was “particularly damaging” to Parti as she was not gave the opportunity to test the player until the trial itself. .
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