| July 9, 2008 |  | |
| Insult to judges: Trial of Gopalan Nair set for Sept | ||
Two weeks, from Sept 8 to Sept 19, have been set aside for it. The decision was made by Magistrate Denise Wong yesterday at a pre-trial conference in the High Court. With almost two months until the trial, Nair, 58, plans to apply to the courts to let him return to the United States in the interim, his lawyer Chia Ti Lik told The Straits Times. As a condition of his bail, Nair had to surrender his passport to the police. The former Workers' Party member who contested elections in 1988 and 1991 faces two charges of insulting a public servant, each carrying a possible jail term of up to one year, a maximum fine of $5,000, or both. His first charge relates to a posting on his blog, in which he accused Justice Belinda Ang of 'prostituting herself' to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. He made the comments after he returned to Singapore to observe a three-day hearing before Justice Ang, for assessing damages in a defamation suit that the two Singapore leaders won against the Singapore Democratic Party, its secretary-general Chee Soon Juan and his sister Chee Siok Chin. His second charge relates to an e-mail he is said to have sent in 2006 to Justice Lai Siu Chiu while she was presiding over a contempt of court case, also involving Chee Soon Juan. In it, Nair implied she worked against critics of the ruling People's Action Party and called her and other Singapore judges 'corrupt'. These two charges are not his only run-ins with the law. Nair was arrested last Friday in Little India for disorderly behaviour in public and using abusive language against police officers. | ||
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