Members of Singapore's government are notorious sticlders for legal exactitude. So it has been interesting to watch the reaction after the country's elder statesman, Lee Kuan Yew-a British-trained lawyer before he became a politician-gave inaccurate testimony in the trial of two opposition leaders.rnIn May Mr Lee testified in a hearing to decide damages against Chee Soon Juan, the leader of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), and his sister, Chee Siok Chin, for defaming the former prime minister and his son, Lee Hsien Loong, who is now prime minister himself.
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