 Woon was the first Attorney @-@ General in more than ten years to personally appear in court . On 28 July 2008 , he argued before the Court of Appeal that a woman who had manipulated her teenage lover into killing her husband should be given a life sentence . The Court held that a life sentence was inappropriate due to the defendant 's psychiatric condition , and affirmed the nine @-@ year jail term imposed by the High Court . Woon elected to take proceedings against Tang Wee Sung , chairman of the company C.K. Tang which owns Tangs department store , for the illegal purchase of a human organ – a kidney – in the first case of its kind in Singapore . The decision to do so was criticised by Dr. Lee Wei Ling , Director of the National Neuroscience Institute and daughter of Minister Mentor and former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew , in an article published in The Straits Times on 5 September 2008 . Woon replied , pointing out a number of misconceptions she held as to the facts and the law , and emphasising that the prosecution had been brought as no one was above the law . Subsequently , in response to further comments by Dr. Lee , he wrote an extended article entitled " Wrong Facts and Faulty Logic " that appeared in The Straits Times on 18 September 2008 . 
