Event organisers sue MBS
THE organisers of a prestigious law event held at Marina Bay
Sands (MBS) have responded to the integrated resort's (IR) suit by
launching a counter-claim of their own.
A group representing the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA)
has said that a conference staged at MBS from May 2-5 was a
'complete disaster', and is claiming unspecified damages.
In its counter-claim, filed with the High Court on Tuesday, the
group said MBS had promised many things in an effort to convince it
to hold its annual conference there, and it had agreed to do so
based on this.
Instead, many things went wrong during the conference -
including instances of water leakage into hotel rooms of some
delegates, intermittent power failure, and incidents where some
guests were locked in their rooms - causing the group's reputation
to suffer.
The group, called IPBA 2010 and comprising several prominent
lawyers, including Mrs Lee Suet Fern and Senior Counsel Lok Vi
Ming, is also seeking aggravated damages.
It claims MBS prevented it from backing out of a deal to hold
its conference there despite the resort's lack of readiness.
-- ST