THE lawyers of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong have asked the High Court for a very high award of damages in the defamation case against blogger Roy Ngerng, saying that Ngerng’s actions had been deeply and intensely malicious.
Ngerng also remained determined to damage Lee’s reputation, the lawyers said in an opening statement submitted to the court yesterday at the start of a three-day hearing.
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