by K.C. Vijayan, Law Correspondent

A BRITISH insurance scheme that bears the legal and other costs of the litigant if he loses his civil suit may see its first use in a court case here.

Englishwoman Jane Rebecca Ong, 52, who is suing three parties for negligence over an earlier case, has applied for insurance cover under Britain's After The Event (ATE) scheme.

She is doing so as one of the parties in her suit is a British-based accounting firm, among other things.

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