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Can the parents of a dead soldier commence legal proceedings against SAF? time after time, we read about a soldier death. SAF said safety measures are in place..a full scale investigations will be conducted...... after a while, another soldier die, and the whole proces mentioned above is more or less repeated again. imagine raising a child for more than 20 years, and he died while serving NS. any parents out there will know the pain. anyone with some legal knowledge here? please share with us whether SAF can be sued for neligence etc?

This shouldn't be surprising news. Just hope nobody fell for this 'wonderful investment'. ----- ESPN suing Profitable Plots for failing to pay up by Ng Jing Yng 04:47 AM Jun 10, 2011 SINGAPORE - Broadcaster ESPN Star Sports is suing landbanking firm Profitable Plots, which is under police investigation following complaints of cheating, for failing to pay close to US$4 million (S$4.9 million). While a default judgment was issued in December against Profitable Plots, after it did not appear in court, the money has not been paid to date. ESPN is also claiming damages for misrepresentation, conspiracy and fraudulent trading in the lawsuit against Profitable Plots' directors John Andrew Nordmann and Mr Timothy Nicholas Goldring, which they have denied in their defence filed in April. Court documents state that the two companies had entered into an agreement in November 2007, which entitles Profitable Plots to air its advertisements and sponsor some of ESPN's television programmes for three years. ESPN's lawyer See Chern Yang of Premier Law said the landbanking firm has defaulted on payment since April 2009, and after several meetings between December 2009 and June last year, the directors only kept giving verbal assurances. In its court papers, the broadcaster alleged that Profitable Plots and its related companies had suffered losses of S$25.8 million in 2009 and that the two directors had not only failed to ensure sufficient finances to fulfil agreements, they gave a false impression the business was profitable, with the intention to deceive creditors. In response, Profitable Plots' lawyer Roy Yeo of Sterling Law Corporation said his clients did not proffer any oral assurances to make payment but were given a time extension by ESPN after they had explained the firm's difficulties. In their court papers, the two directors claimed that ESPN was, on its own accord, "happy to continue" with the agreement, as it would have otherwise lost a considerable amount of content from their channel without Profitable Plots' advertising. The men claimed that ESPN withheld suspending the agreement due to its "own commercial reasons". ESPN has since filed a reply refuting that there was any agreement to allow delay of payment and said the defendants had admitted the debt by giving two post-dated cheques that were not encashable eventually. The broadcaster added that it terminated the agreement after the defendants did not respond to several warnings and notices for payment. Meanwhile, investigations by the Commercial Affairs Department into Profitable Plots are ongoing after 229 complaints were made by investors who claimed they were cheated of S$23.5 million. No criminal charges have been pressed on the company's directors and the matter is due in court July 8.

Russian farmer sues space agency for falling rocket Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:40am EDT By Natalya Sokhareva BARNAUL, Russia (Reuters) - A shepherd is suing Russia's space agency for compensation after he said a 10-foot-long chunk of metal from a space rocket fell into his yard, just missing his outdoor toilet. Boris Urmatov, who is asking for 1 million roubles ($42,000) from the Roskosmos agency, lives in a small village that lies underneath the flight path of rockets taking off from the Baikonur launchpad Russia leases in nearby Kazakhstan. "Something woke him up in the night, like something exploded. Since he's visually handicapped he didn't notice the fallen rocket parts," Urmatov's sister Marina told Reuters from the village of Kyrlyk, in Russia's Altai region. "But in the morning in front of the shepherd hut he saw this enormous metal casing, as smooth as an egg," she said by telephone from the village, which is 2,175 miles east of Moscow. "It nearly crushed the outhouse." She said her brother was seeking damages to compensate him for the stress he suffered. Residents in the neighboring village of Ust-Kan said rocket pieces regularly rain down on their area. Parts of the surrounding countryside are designated special zones where people may not go during the launches. "Sometimes it's smooth metal casings, sometimes it's bolts. I remember something like an engine fell once," said Anatoly Kazakov, an Ust-Kan resident. "THEY FLY, THEY FALL" Roskosmos said it regularly warns residents when a launch is scheduled, and in a history stretching back over 50 years and 400 rockets, only a few space-bound rocket parts have fallen outside designated areas. "Technologically speaking, these parts are supposed to fall off during a launch. They fly, they fall, they fly, they fall. It's how they work," said Roskosmos spokesman Alexander Vorobyov. He said Roskosmos regularly sends out an investigation team to check on reports of damage from rocket parts, but it could only pay compensation if a court rules for damages. "If a court determines that, yes, those are rocket parts, they fell on his land, then for sure he will be compensated. No question about it. We live in a civilized, law-abiding country," Vorobyov said. Izvestia newspaper said Roskosmos had only once paid out compensation over rocket debris to a private individual -- 10,000 roubles in 2001 -- when a piece fell on his yard as he was outside chopping wood. "What is abnormal is when somebody gets greedy, and it turns out the parts did not fall on his land, but that they were dragged there. Those moments are not good," Vorobyov said. "But those are individual instances. We in no way refuse to pay out compensation. It just has to go through the court system." (Writing by Chris Baldwin, editing by Richard Meares)