Please help Alan's fight for natural justice in Singapore

My name is Alan Pickering and I need your help.

This is an all-too-common story of gross prejudice, legal imprudence and denial of natural justice by an evidentially dishonest, Singapore Judiciary and court system. The battle continues and has done so over the past seven years, in-spite of a mountain of evidence showing that our business and I have been falsely accused and abused by the legal system in Singapore.

After establishing and operating a highly regarded and reputable marine business in Singapore over twenty years ago, we find ourselves the casualty of a vindictive and powerful businessperson, as well as complicit officers and arbitrators, in the Singapore legal system.

Our business and livelihood have been lost. My health has been severely affected and my family put under enormous and at times overwhelming stress.

We have always acted in the best interests of our many customers and treated them with courtesy, absolute propriety and good will.

This is a story of how the rich and powerful, can invent a case and in concert with crooked authority, use and abuse the legal system to take a decent, honourable and hard-working family man and his business for their own purpose and selfish end. Our capacity to continue to resource the fight to see natural justice prevail and important principals proven… is depleted.

CASE DETAIL....

In our case against the Arbitrator, Lawrence Boo, there is a strong case for bias, or worse, perpetrated by the arbitrator.

His initial findings found all points in our company's, Prometheus Marine’s (PM) favour. The arbitrator stated that Mrs King was barred from making any claim under the contract due to valid exclusion clauses. He then spent 6 months contradicting all his findings and inventing or modifying “evidence”.

These include, but not limited to the following;

1. Ignoring documented perjury, without comment.

2. Ignoring documented lies of her witnesses, and classifying them as facts.

3. Removing the oath taking from a key witness of fact, her surveyor, just as he was preparing to be cross examined.

4. Undermining, and ignoring the legal transfer of title documents which clearly indicate identity of the builder, seller and buyer. Confirming that our company, PM was the agent in the sale.

5. Re writing the terms of the sale contract and introducing fictious words changing the contractual terms for the purchase of a “standard yacht to standard specifications”, to “Custom boat to buyer's specifications”.

The shipyard does not build custom boats and this was explained at the hearing by the sales manager of Clipper Yachts, who was our key witness.

He also stated that PM was their agent in the sale, and that he had worked with PM for over 20 years.

The appeal judge later stated that PM did not claim to be the agent for Clipper, which was a lie easily disproved from the transcripts and other court documents.

6. The arbitrator stated that the contract was an International Sales Contract, ie. "...yacht built in China, for a foreigner to be delivered, ex shipyard China, to another country, Singapore". Even though this was clearly the case, as the contract was ex shipyard China, he eventually stated that it was a Domestic Sales Contract and then awarded under Singapore consumer protection laws.

These are just some of the outrageous actions of the arbitrator, among many others, and which totally expose the breach of natural justice. The lawyers here have said that even one of these points, i.e., removing the oath taking from a key witness of fact, would be enough to claim a mistrial in Australia. The arbitration laws are Commonwealth based and we intend to take action against the arbitrator Lawrence Boo. He has previously declared that he can do “exactly as he pleases”, which has led to dishonest dealings and subversion of the legal process.

We have informed the Singapore Prime Minister’s Office and the Corruption Bureau, however, we are not confident of any remedial action to correct this blatant injustice.

My affidavit and application to quash these actions, which includes the Sales Contract, is over 600 pages and details every transgression of the arbitrator and of the system and we Intend to publish it widely.

Thank you in anticipation for your concern and support. We would appreciate any comments or feedback.

We have the where with all and the overwhelming evidence to see this through and obtain justice, but desperately need help to bring it to its conclusion. Our wish is to fully expose the unscrupulous arbitrator, court officers, and complicity of the Singapore Judiciary.

In anticipation of your support, we thank you.

Regards, Alan.