Iris Koh and husband ordered to pay HSA S$12,000 in costs, court finds abuse of process: AGC

SINGAPORE: Activist Iris Koh and her husband Raymond Ng Kai Hoe have been ordered to pay S$ 12, 000 ( US$ 9, 338 ) in costs to the Health Sciences Authority ( HSA ) after failing to mount a judicial review against the authority.

The court found that the couple’s application was an abuse of process and granted HSA’s bid for the case to be struck out entirely, a&nbsp, spokesperson for the Attorney-General’s Chambers ( AGC ) told CNA in a statement on Wednesday ( Sep 25 ). &nbsp,

HSA was represented in the hearing on Sep 19 by associates from AGC’s legal section, according to the court’s common reading list. &nbsp,

Koh, who has changed her Chinese name from Shu Cii to Hsiao Pei, is the leader of Healing the Divide, a party with a recognized stance against COVID-19 immunization.

The Malaysian woman, 48, and her father had filed a request for judicial review, which is how the High Court exercises its authority over a common system.

According to the AGC director, their goal was to require HSA to get them to launch an investigation and prosecution of entities that used celebrities to promote immunization.

In reply, AGC filed a request to have the situation dismissed on behalf of HSA.

According to the AGC director, this was based on the fact that HSA had presently conducted an investigation into the matter and that the few was requesting” an academic or fictional interpretation of the law which was an abuse of the judge’s process.”

The judge ruled that Koh and her husband’s request for judicial review “disclosed no reasonable cause of action, was an abuse of operation, and it was in the interests of justice to hit it out,” according to an AGC director.

The prosecutor also ordered Koh and her father to give HSA a full of S$ 12, 000 in costs after ordering that the program get thrown out in its totality.

They are for both the striking out and two additional software that the pair had submitted.

In a Facebook post after the hear, Koh asked for help to pay the costs of S$ 12, 000.

She claimed that the couple was unable to properly address the issue of” special damage” and that the situation was “based on the issue of standing.”

We’ve learned a lot about the challenges of pursuing a criminal review from this knowledge, Koh wrote. This understanding will be priceless as we consider possible future actions to defend people right.

She shared two classes: that while the pub is great for a strikeout, it is “even higher” for a criminal assessment.

She wrote,” The process and lessons learned will help us prepare for the next JR.”

According to a search of the people reading list on Wednesday, Koh and her spouse had filed numerous lawsuits against people or entities for things like reported slander or breach of contracts.

Individually, Koh faces 15 costs and is expected back in court in October for a criminal case reporting event.

The claims against her include:

  • conspiring with a doctor to defraud the Ministry of Health ( MOH) by claiming that unvaccinated people had been given a jab
  • Instigating Healing the Divide Telegram group members to “flood” the Ministry of Social and Family Development of Singapore hotlines and the MOH excellent service or comments.
  • Instigating members of the same group converse to obstruct physicians at immunization centers.
  • Organising a common council near Bedok Police Division HQ to avoid the government’s COVID-19 vaccination programme