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AHTC case: Workers Party leaders awarded costs for appeals

SINGAPORE — Workers Party (WP) leaders Pritam Singh, Sylvia Lim and Low Thia Khiang will be able to recover some legal fees in the long-running case involving the party s town council, after the apex court found they had succeeded substantially in their appeals and awarded costs to them. The Court of Appeal also agreed that the trio could claim for the costs of using more than two lawyers in some instances — an exception to the usual rule — as the case had high stakes for all parties involved and dealt with complex issues of both law and fact. The Nov 29 ruling followed previous judgments in July 2023 and November 2022 in which the apex court overturned several findings of the High Court, while confirming that senior WP leaders were liable to Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC) and Sengkang Town Council (STC) for negligence in certain respects. Following the July decision, parties made written arguments on the costs to be awarded for the appeals.


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