SINGAPORE – A woman with a history of filing numerous police reports and criminal complaints over non-criminal matters has been rapped by the court for wasting resources and abuse of process.
In the current case, Ms Angeline Tan Poh Hong filed a magistrate’s complaint in 2024 against her condominium’s management, but she ignored a request to attend an interview at a police station to provide more details.
The complaint was dismissed in September by the court after two different investigation officers concluded that no crime was committed.
Ms Tan failed in her subsequent appeal against the dismissal.
In a written judgment published on Nov 27, Senior Magistrate Ng Peng Hong said: “In my view, Ms Tan is clearly abusing her access to justice and consuming too many police and judicial resources thereby depriving others of the right to timely access to justice.”
Police investigations revealed there was a pattern of Ms Tan making “excessive” police reports over noise complaints, burning incense and condo management issues.
She harassed investigation officers even after the cases had been closed.
Court records also showed that she had filed no less than 11 magistrate’s complaints, of which seven involved her condo’s management. Most of the complaints were dismissed.
It shows that she has been habitually and without any reasonable grounds instituting vexatious legal proceedings, said the magistrate.
He noted that there was no right of appeal against the dismissal of a magistrate’s complaint, and that her filing may have been accepted by the court registry “on account of her insistence” and the fact that she is self-represented.
Hence, her appeal was legally unsustainable, frivolous and an abuse of the process of court, he said.
The magistrate pointed out that Ms Tan did not even specify the names of the parties against whom she is complaining.
