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SINGAPORE – Legal issues were raised in connection with the lawsuit filed against Workers’ Party (WP) MPs Sylvia Lim and Pritam Singh and others following the modification of the limits for the July general elections.
Punggol East, a single-member constituency (SMC) under WP from 2013 to 2015 after a by-election, is one party in the case.
In 2015, the Popular Action Party won the SMC. But after the electoral boundary changes in this year’s elections, Punggol East became part of Sengkang GRC, which was won by the WP.
The election result means that the former SMC is now under the new Sengkang City Council (SKTC), whose independent panel has appointed a new legal team led by Ms. Marina Chin of the Tan Kok Quan Partnership to handle an appeal filed by its predecessor Punggol East together with the Aljunied-Hougang City Council (AHTC) managed by WP.
The Court of Appeals hearing scheduled for last month was postponed to early next year at the request of the law firm.
The firm said that with the electoral boundary changes, the case can now be an appeal filed by SKTC. These are “novel and complex legal issues,” he said in his court application.
The Pasir Ris-Punggol City Council had submitted legal documents to recover the alleged losses suffered by Punggol East when it was an SMC under WP. He started the civil lawsuit after AHTC took Ms. Lim and the others to court.
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