What is the surefire strategy to win a trial?

  What is the surefire strategy to win a trial? A trial is won or lost long before a trial takes place. It took me a long time to realise that the best way to deal with trial preparations is backwards. It sounds odd, but it is true! So here are a few tips that took a lifetime of practice. Prepare every conceivable documentation, oral evidence, legal points, arguments and research at least three weeks ahead ...

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Is Negligence, or Gross Negligence Professional Misconduct?

[1] Is Negligence ‘misconduct’? Mere negligence cannot be the subject of a disciplinary complaint. [2] More than 60 years ago, one Dr Ong Bak Hin performed an abortion on a lady. This was in Melaka. She died. He was struck off the medical register. In 2016 a Singaporean plastic surgeon, Dr Kevin Teh, conducted vaser liposuctiontreatment on a patient:she wished to reduce fat. Shortly after the treatment, blisters appeared on her body. Dr Teh told her that her blisters were ...

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