Socialist Front leader 'can still run in election'

• Clivebenss

  11 Mar 11, 12:58

  Mar 11, 2011 - Straits Times

  by Andrea Ong

  A FINE that lawyer and opposition politician Chia Ti Lik has to pay after having been found guilty of professional misconduct will not disqualify him from contesting in the coming general election, legal experts say.

  On Tuesday, a disciplinary tribunal found Mr Chia, 36, guilty of five charges filed against him by the Law Society of Singapore. He faces a fine but the amount has not yet been decided.

  The disciplinary process is provided for in the Legal Profession Act to investigate complaints about lawyers' conduct.

  The Law Society filed charges against Mr Chia following a complaint from the Attorney-General's Chambers on blog postings by the Socialist Front (SF) secretary-general between June 2008 and June 2009.

  The Singapore Constitution states that a person is disqualified from being a Member of Parliament if he has been jailed for one year or more, or fined $2,000 or more, by a court of law.

  The disciplinary tribunal that found Mr Chia guilty of professional misconduct does not constitute a court of law, said Singapore Management University law academic Jack Lee. 'This punishment is not something which would disqualify him from standing.'

• Vote PAP OUT to Save SG

  11 Mar 11, 13:12

  The Law Society filed charges against Mr Chia following a complaint from the Attorney-General's Chambers on blog postings by the Socialist Front (SF) secretary-general between June 2008 and June 2009.

   

   

  So what's the complaint about?

  More bullshit?

   

• Nelstar

  11 Mar 11, 14:07

  Originally posted by Vote PAP OUT to Save SG:

   

   

  So what's the complaint about?

  More bullshit?

   

  I think the period between June 2008 - June 2009 is the time Mr Chia blogged, not really charged.

  

• Askingyouto

  13 Mar 11, 03:51

  If he wins, he will get charged.

• Leomanz

  13 Mar 11, 10:24

  Why d "timing" so choonz 1 arh??

  near erection then comeout fine him n try make his name "bad"........ govtment's machinery at work??

• Singapore AFOL

  13 Mar 11, 10:25

  No one can defeat the PAP.

• Clivebenss

  15 Mar 11, 01:12

  inflict damages to their opponents.

  make them look less appealing.

  

• likeyou

  15 Mar 11, 08:56

  Let him register for the contest, if lost, his money gone. That is what govt love him so much.

• Clivebenss

  15 Mar 11, 17:14