please dont waste public money
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/thai-teen-loses-appeal-lawsuit-against-smrt-lta
In dismissing Ms Nitcharee’s appeal, Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon — who heard the appeal with Judges of Appeal Chao Hick Tin and Andrew Phang — agreed with the ruling of trial judge Vinodh Coomaraswamy, that the failure to provide platform screen doors at Ang Mo Kio MRT station when the accident occurred was not a breach of standard of care. The installation of platform screen doors at above-ground stations was completed in March 2012.
The trial judge had found that SMRT and the LTA were not negligent as the safety features in place when Ms Nitcharee fell onto the tracks were sufficient to keep the MRT station reasonably safe.
Ms Nitcharee’s lawyer Peter Low had argued that SMRT and the LTA knew of the risk of people falling onto the train tracks, with 30 cases of track intrusions between 2004 and 2010 where a commuter is on the tracks the same time as an oncoming train. It did not matter if the falls were intentional or unintentional; the entities should have done more, he said.
But CJ Menon said there was a need to distinguish between the risk of unintentional and intentional track intrusions.
He noted that 87 per cent of track intrusions between 1998 and 2008 were intentional. Based on this statistic, it would make about three of the 30 cases cited by Mr Low unintentional track intrusions, he said. And of these, the risk of a wholly spontaneous collapse not involving crowds or pushing by others — as in the case of Ms Nitcharee — may be even more limited, although data was not available, CJ Menon added.
Her case was undoubtedly tragic but, as noted by Justice Coomaraswamy, the law of negligence awards compensation based on a defendant’s culpability and not simply because a plaintiff has suffered harm, he said.
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according to judge lemon, these girls r just money grabbing type.