Storm in a Curry Pot

Some thoughts on the unhappiness of Singaporeans regarding the stupid decision of the Community Mediation Centre (CMC)  regarding the freedom of an Indian Singaporean family to cook curry.

• One of the mandates of the CMC is to resolve disputes between neighbours.
• While there was a dispute between the PRC family and the Indian Singaporean family in the sense of a disagreement regarding the cooking of curry, in a legal sense, there is no dispute at all.
• Cooking curry and emitting fumes with strong smell, as far as I can tell from our Common Law, does not constitute private nuisance, and so there is no tort committed here.
• Since in a legal sense there is no dispute, the CMC should have thrown out the application and not waste taxpayers' money hearing it.
• It's an affront to Singaporeans taxpayers that we are made to pay for the hearing of a case where no legal rights of the claimants have been infringed and then to arrive at a decision that is ridiculous.

I hope the CMC will apply commonsense when deciding whether to hear cases or not.

And to the PRC family, I have this to say: 入乡随俗