Former assemblywoman Jenice Lee to take DAP to court

(The Star) - Former Teratai assemblyman Jenice Lee will be bringing the matter of her sacking from DAP to court, claiming that it was illegal.

She said she will seek a declaration that her automatic expulsion after she contested as an independent candidate was invalid since she was not properly notified.

“I cannot attend any party functions or meetings at all. The proper procedure is to give me my expulsion letter.

“This is not fair to me,” she said, maintaining that she is still a life member of the party.

The party issued a warning that anyone who contested as an independent candidate in the general election would be sacked immediately, although they would be given 14 days to appeal. She did not appeal.

During a press conference at what used to be her service centre on Saturday, she questioned the party leadership over "double standards" in how they treated members with integrity issues.

“If they are trying to use these integrity reasons to drop me, then they should use by their same standards and apply it to the new assemblyman Tiew Way Keng,” she said, slamming her successor from DAP.

She said that Tiew, who was a MBPJ councillor, had chosen Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng's law firm to handle a matter back in 2010.

Lee claimed that Lim had increased his legal fees from RM15,000 to RM55,000, and that Tiew appointed Lim's firm Messrs Stella, Lim and Co to represent the local council.

However, on May 14 last year, MBPJ denied that Lim's firm was paid RM55,000 for the job, and said it was not Tiew who appointed the firm, but the mayor.

Meanwhile, DAP deputy chairman and the disciplinary committee chief Tan Kok Wai said he had "nothing more to say about her".

“I prefer not to reply anymore. I don't want to waste my time. As far as I am concerned, she is no longer a DAP member,” he said when contacted.