sentences:  In 1985, he was the senior state counsel and deputy public prosecutor who filed an affidavit on behalf of the Attorney-General requesting that the High Court cite five defendants for contempt of court over an editorial published in the "Asian Wall Street Journal" (AWSJ) on 17 October 1985.Titled "Jeyaretnam's Challenge", the editorial had questioned the "integrity and impartiality" of Singapore's judicial system.The affidavit led to an apology from the editor of the AWSJ.