The taxi driver has been trying to seek damages for his serious injuries after an accident in 2008.
SINGAPORE: A taxi driver involved in a 2008 traffic accident with a lorry tried to sue the lorry driver for severe injuries suffered, but failed because his lawyer did not meet a deadline.
Failure to do so would result in Mr Cheng's claim being struck off. Mr Latimer failed to set down the matter for trial, and Mr Cheng's claim was struck off.Mr Cheng then hired another set of lawyers from S K Kumar Law Practice to initiate a suit against Mr Latimer. According to the judgment, Yeo attended pre-trial conferences for Mr Cheng twice in April 2022, but they were adjourned as he did not have a valid practising certificate.At the third pre-trial conference in May, no lawyer from SKK appeared on Mr Cheng's behalf.
At the next pre-trial conference on May 23, 2022, no lawyer from SKK appeared on Mr Cheng's behalf and it was again adjourned. Mr Foo was not a lawyer on record for Mr Cheng at the time. The assistant registrar found that Mr Foo was not aware of the stage of case management for the suit and struck out Mr Cheng's statement of claim, on the basis that no counsel on record was present.SKK later asked for a further review of this striking out, but the request was refused.
He said that the striking out of Mr Cheng's statement of claim due to the absence of the SKK solicitors was"a disproportionate consequence in this case". "This was surely through no fault of the plaintiff but the result of his errant solicitors' contumelious conduct."
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