If no one is above th law, then why does Durai gets special treatment in travelling around the world and the way the proceedings are dragged ? Surely this contrasts with a lot of cases of recent bankrupts who are not allowed to travel overseas ?
AG's tone was unnecessarily harsh and made dire warnings against people who think it is ok to lie or break law just because one disagrees with it...
accuses Lee of being `presumptuous' to assume that people will act in the same way as she thinks.
AG Walter Woon's idealistic approach to the law in this issue appears to be in the same vein as when he submitted in the case of a woman who got a teenager to murder her husband. All the judge had to do is to remind him that the court never makes it a deterrent in mental cases.
What Dr Lee said about desperate people acting the same way as Mr Tang, is the objective aspect of the situation. AG Woon’s chastisement is only the subjective side of it which in law is always the exception as in the “thin scalp rule”.
Talking of AG Woon, I remember when he was a non-elected MP, he articulated that making carrying of firearm in a robbery a capital punishment is dangerous because, as he put it, the firearmed robber would be attempted to kill as afterall he would be hanged anyway. Parliament ignored him.
I think we should all ignore him this time around and let Parliament reviews and amends the Organ Donation Act accordingly.
Indeed, even our legal system should not be above the law.
But the implementation of our legal system seems to raise questions about fairness and priority. Buyers and sellers of organ hurt nobody, however, the public figures that were involved in cheating of charities and the donors got off very lightly. They have shaken the public's trust in charities and our government's ability to oversee them. There are still unanswered questions but the case is closed!
The buy sell of kidneys/organs are not driven by "fun and excitment", it's a matter of life and death. The legitimacy (or legalisation) of abortion is that , that one more life will hurt the lives of several existing lives or that evolving life itself. These are very difficult decisions moral or legal. The law seems to let the people involve make that moral decision. If we take this as a legal precedent, then why are we against organ trading? Surely there is no law against saving of lives of the sick. The law should look into how we regulate such trading.
September 10, 2008 Wednesday, 02:57 AM
