• About Us
    • Fact Checking Policy
    • Ownership & funding information
  • Volunteer
    • Internship with The Online Citizen
  • Donation
  • Subscription
  • Letter submission
    • Submissions Policy
  • Contact Us
The Online Citizen Asia
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
    • Commentaries
    • Comments
  • Current Affairs
    • Malaysia
    • Indonesia
    • China
    • ASEAN
    • Asia
    • International
  • Finance
    • Economics
    • Labour
    • Property
    • Business
  • Community
    • Civil Society
    • Arts & Culture
    • Consumer Watch
    • NGO
  • Politics
    • Parliament
    • Transport
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Health
    • Housing
  • Law & Order
    • Legislation
    • Court Cases
  • Lifestyle
    • Travel
No Result
View All Result
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
    • Commentaries
    • Comments
  • Current Affairs
    • Malaysia
    • Indonesia
    • China
    • ASEAN
    • Asia
    • International
  • Finance
    • Economics
    • Labour
    • Property
    • Business
  • Community
    • Civil Society
    • Arts & Culture
    • Consumer Watch
    • NGO
  • Politics
    • Parliament
    • Transport
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Health
    • Housing
  • Law & Order
    • Legislation
    • Court Cases
  • Lifestyle
    • Travel
No Result
View All Result
The Online Citizen Asia
No Result
View All Result

District Judge Olivia Low now in AGC as Deputy Senior State Counsel

by The Online Citizen
16/09/2020
in Current Affairs
Reading Time: 3 mins read
60

District Judge Olivia Low who had presided over the controversial case of Indonesian domestic worker, Parti Liyani is now employed in the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) as a Deputy Senior State Counsel in the Civil Division.

District Judge Low had earlier sentenced Ms Parti to two years and two months of imprisonment for the four theft related charges after hearing the case over a course of 20 days from Apr 2018 to Jan 2019.

At the delivery of her sentence on 25 March 2019, the District Judge said that she did not see “any reason why the Liew family and (their) driver Robin would conspire to frame the accused for the theft, especially when they had employed her for a number of years”.

“They had in fact compensated her for the termination and was even willing to pay for the shipping of her items back to Indonesia,”

“On the contrary, the modus operandi of the accused was to take a variety of items from different family members thinking that these would go unnoticed by them.”

She said she found the prosecution’s witnesses “largely credible and consistent”, and the victims were able to identify the items that belonged to them and what they did with it.

Instead of finding doubts in the case itself through the evidence provided by the Defence, District Judge Low amended the second charge by reducing the number of stolen items from 120 to 115, removing two wallets from the list and reducing the value of a watch from S$25,000 to S$10,000.

Subsequently, Ms Parti filed an appeal against her convictions and had it heard in the High Court through three days of hearing in 2019 and 2020.

On 4 Sept 2020, Justice Chan Seng Onn ruled to acquit former domestic worker of all four convictions passed by the District Judge.

Justice Chan noted in his written judgement:

“In her decision to convict Parti on the 2nd charge for having stolen the 115 items of clothing that were in Karl’s possession, the Judge did not find the need to delve into the details of each and every item.

“Instead, it would appear that the Judge based the conviction on the fact that Karl “confirmed that he had never given [Parti] any clothes” and Mdm Ng only gave Parti clothes that were hers (meaning, Mdm Ng’s), and not anyone else’s.”

Further down, he said:

“Karl’s evidence was internally inconsistent and contradicted by the other witnesses. Karl’s testimony that he had in his possession multiple female items that Parti allegedly stole from him is also highly suspect.

“It is unclear how the Judge could have arrived at the conclusion that this was a result of Karl’s “inability to recall if some items had ever been in his possession”, especially when some of the items were observed by the Judge to be “smaller-sized female clothing” and wallets that “did not appear to be men’s wallets.”

He further said, “When confronted with the question if he had a “habit of wearing women’s clothes”, Karl replied that he sometimes wore women’s T-shirts. This assertion is highly unbelievable, especially in the light of the concessions Karl made at trial regarding the women’s clothing removed from the 2nd charge.”

In his judgement, Justice Chan notes a considerable number of questionable judgement calls made by the District Judge and praised Ms Parti’s defence counsel, Mr Anil Balchandani who represented Ms Parti pro-bono, for analysing the grounds of decision of the district judge in great detail to submit on areas where the judge had erred in her findings.

Ms Low was appointed as State Counsel to the AGC with effect on 1 April last year — right after she convicted Ms Parti —and she is now fellow colleague with the the Deputy Public Prosecutors who fought so hard to get Ms Parti convicted and jailed.

Also, following the High Court’s ruling to acquit Ms Parti , the AGC said in a statement on 5 Sept that it was studying the judgement on her successful appeal in order to assess possible further actions that ought to be taken. The review is said to be headed by Deputy Attorney-General Hri Kumar Nair who is a former People’s Action Party Member of Parliament.

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
Subscribe
Connect withD
Login
I allow to create an account
When you login first time using a Social Login button, we collect your account public profile information shared by Social Login provider, based on your privacy settings. We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. Once your account is created, you'll be logged-in to this account.
DisagreeAgree
Notify of
I allow to create an account
When you login first time using a Social Login button, we collect your account public profile information shared by Social Login provider, based on your privacy settings. We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. Once your account is created, you'll be logged-in to this account.
DisagreeAgree
60 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

Recent Posts

  • UN experts say deeply disappointed by decision to discharge Fukushima water
  • PM Lee seeking nearly S$130,000 in legal costs and disbursements from blogger Leong Sze Hian; much of disbursements tied to engagement of Hong Kong expert witness
  • Taiwan transport minister resigns over train crash
  • S’pore economy grows 0.2% in first quarter; MAS keeps monetary policy unchanged amid low core inflation outlook
  • Netizens question how woman who abused domestic helper allowed to become prison counsellor
  • Over 100mil devices at risk from NAME:WRECK DNS bugs, CSA advise firms to patch systems immediately
  • Public member highlights lax social distancing control in airport allowing travellers to intermingle
  • 16 new cases of COVID-19 infection in S’pore; all cases are imported

Trending posts

前女佣巴蒂有意撤诉主控官 大法官给两周考虑!

Ho Ching shares not 1, not 2, but 7 Facebook posts by Chan Chun Sing in a row within 15 minutes

Here’s why many Singaporeans aren’t bothered who the ruling party chooses to become PM

PM Lee seeking nearly S$130,000 in legal costs and disbursements from blogger Leong Sze Hian; much of disbursements tied to engagement of Hong Kong expert witness

WP MP Gerald Giam’s intervention helped solve traffic congestion issue at Hougang Capeview

Unqualified supervising lawyer in trainee dispute was once a Deputy Public Prosecutor

FB post criticising Minister Chan Chun Sing’s leadership skills re-emerges in light of recent 4G leadership discussion

MP Poh Li San explains to media why RSAF Super Puma was replaced with Airbus H225M

Roy Ngerng raises over S$125,000 over 7 days of fund raising to pay for PM Lee’s defamation damage

Netizens question how woman who abused domestic helper allowed to become prison counsellor

Load More
September 2020
MTWTFSS
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
282930 
« Aug   Oct »
  • About Us
  • Volunteer
  • Donation
  • Subscription
  • Letter submission
  • Contact Us

© 2006 - 2021 The Online Citizen

No Result
View All Result
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
    • Commentaries
    • Comments
  • Current Affairs
    • Malaysia
    • Indonesia
    • China
    • ASEAN
    • Asia
    • International
  • Finance
    • Economics
    • Labour
    • Property
    • Business
  • Community
    • Civil Society
    • Arts & Culture
    • Consumer Watch
    • NGO
  • Politics
    • Parliament
    • Transport
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Health
    • Housing
  • Law & Order
    • Legislation
    • Court Cases
  • Lifestyle
    • Travel
  • Subscribers login

© 2006 - 2021 The Online Citizen

wpDiscuz
60
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x
| Reply