In her adjournment motion speech in Parliament, Sylvia Lim quoted the advice of a “prominent” Queens Counsel filed by Dr Tan Cheng Bock in Court, that the Art was unconstitutional.
But she did not disclose that Tan Cheng Bock also withdrew the QC’s advice.
Clearly the advice had no merit or Tan Cheng Bock would not have withdrawn it.
By suppressing the fact that Tan Cheng Bock had withdrawn the QC's advice, Sylvia Lim intended to mislead Singaporeans.
In legal language, such behaviour is described as:
"suppressio veri suggestio falsi" - suppressing the truth to suggest something that is false.
In 2015, the High Court judge, Quentin Loh described one of Sylvia Lim’s Parliamentary speeches as an exercise of “suppresio veri, suggestio falsi”.
What Sylvia Lim has succeeded in her adjournment motion is to further discredit her credibility.
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