“The former patient coordinator at the Communicable Disease Centre of Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), Roy Ngerng, who was summarily dismissed by the hospital on 10 June 2014 – filed a court document on 14 June 2014 to seek reinstatement of his position.

Mr Ngerng has asked to quash what he calls the ‘wrong and wrongful’ summary dismissal by TTSH.

Mr Ngerng alleged that TTSH carried out the summary dismissal without regard to due process and without giving him an opportunity to be heard.

Mr Ngerng is seeking judicial remedies on the ground that the summary dismissal against him was a breach of natural justice, infringing his fundamental right to a fair hearing and of the presumption of innocence, and is illegal, irrational and procedurally improper.

Prominent human rights lawyer, M Ravi, is representing Mr Ngerng.

Mr Ngerng is now taking TTSH to court to seek due process and fair hearing.

Mr Ngerng said he was not called up by TTSH for investigations, prior to the summary dismissal.

Mr Ngerng requests that his former employers “to do what is right, and live up to the international reputation it aspires to” – carry out proper investigations and hold a fair hearing at the very least, and not dismiss him without regard to due process.

Mr Ngerng has previously written critically against the Singapore government. He wrote about how the Singapore government had charged its opposition leaders and activists under various laws and how government leaders had used defamation proceedings to sue and cripple their opponents.”

Actually the above is fictional and satirical, as I merely substituted “Roy Ngerng” and “TTSH” for “Tey Tsun Hang” and “NUS” in the article “Ex-law prof takes court action against NUS” (TR Emeritus, Jun 11).

Leong Sze Hian