A summary judgment hearing for the defamation case between Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and blogger Roy Ngerng will reportedly be held on 18 September.
The hearing was announced following a pre-trial conference at the Supreme Court on Thursday. According to TODAY, it will be a full-day hearing in front of a High Court judge.
Lee filed for the court application of the summary judgment against Ngerng on 11 July. A summary judgment means that Lee has claimed that Ngerng has no case, and therefore wants judgment in his favour without trial.
The report also said that Lee's lawyers had sought damages in the application and asked for Ngerng to cease the publishing or the disseminating of allegations that Lee had misappropriated monies from the Central Provident Fund.
Both sides have until 11 September to file and exchange their affidavits.
Former healthcare programme co-ordinator Ngerng had posted, on his blog, an article in May that appeared to accuse the latter of embezzling and misusing CPF funds via the vehicles of Temasek Holdings and the Government Investment Corporation, Singapore's two key investment arms.
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