SINGAPORE: The Court of Appeal on Monday (Apr 1) dismissed an appeal by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's nephew Li Shengwu over the service of ...
over the service of papers for a contempt of court case.
During the appeal, the AG argued that scandalising contempt was a type of criminal contempt and engaged the High Court's original criminal jurisdiction. Personal jurisdiction over the individual would also have to be established by proper service of the papers, Mr Li's lawyer argued. "Nonetheless, this judgment serves to explain the proper source of the court's jurisdiction as well as the correct juridical basis for contempt cases," wrote the judges.Mr Li in a Facebook post put up shortly after the written judgment was published, said that he was"of course disappointed with the judgment".
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