{"_id": "2014-11-04_P12_S17_MEDICAL_DISCIPLINARY_CASES_WHERE_COURTS_REDUCED_LE", "_source": "SG/PairSearch", "_type": "parliamentary_proceedings", "_fetched_at": "2026-03-26T12:24:21.504373+00:00", "title": "MEDICAL DISCIPLINARY CASES WHERE COURTS REDUCED LEGAL COSTS TO BE PAID BY LOSING PARTIES", "summary": "Singapore Medical Council (SMC) in the past three years, how many of such cases have had their legal costs that the losing parties are ordered to pay reduced following the court's taxation of the bill of costs; (b) what has been the total quantum of costs taxed down; and (c) whether these have resulted in SMC paying the full quantum of costs that have been taxed down. Mr Gan...", "text": "MEDICAL DISCIPLINARY CASES WHERE COURTS REDUCED LEGAL COSTS TO BE PAID BY LOSING PARTIES\nSingapore Medical Council (SMC) in the past three years, how many of such cases have had their legal costs that the losing parties are ordered to pay reduced following the court's taxation of the bill of costs; (b) what has been the total quantum of costs taxed down; and (c) whether these have resulted in SMC paying the full quantum of costs that have been taxed down. Mr Gan...", "date": "2014-11-04", "parliament_number": 12, "session_number": 2, "sitting_number": 17, "topic": "WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "search_query": "taxation", "doc_type": "hansard_debate", "language": "en", "jurisdiction": "SG", "country": "Singapore", "text_length": 469, "top_keywords": ["costs", "medical", "cases", "reduced", "legal", "losing", "parties", "quantum", "taxed", "down", "disciplinary", "where", "courts", "paid", "singapore"], "source_url": "https://search.pair.gov.sg/search?query=taxation&source=hansard", "search_text": "MEDICAL DISCIPLINARY CASES WHERE COURTS REDUCED LEGAL COSTS TO BE PAID BY LOSING PARTIES Singapore Medical Council (SMC) in the past three years, how many of such cases have had their legal costs that the losing parties are ordered to pay reduced following the court's taxation of the bill of costs; (b) what has been the total quantum of costs taxed down; and (c) whether these have resulted in SMC paying the full quantum of costs that have been taxed down. Mr Gan... WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS"}