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The District Court held it had jurisdiction to assess a legal aid solicitor’s bill for Syariah Court work, applying a purposive rectifying construction to the regulations.
The court fixed pre- and post-offer costs after an assessment of damages, awarded indemnity costs to the defendants from the offer date, and ordered the plaintiff’s solicitor to bear them personally.
The Court of 3 Supreme Court Judges dismissed the first disciplinary charge against Lim Tean, upheld the second for client-account breaches, and fined him $30,000.
High Court review of a disciplinary tribunal decision concerning a solicitor’s conduct for a vulnerable elderly client, including hearsay, prior capacity findings, conflicts, and alleged disobedience of court orders.
The High Court held that LNP admission cases follow AAS character principles, and exclusionary periods generally run from the court order. It allowed one application, withdrew one subject to deferment, and dismissed one.
The High Court upheld Lim Tean’s convictions for unauthorised practice and increased his sentence to three months and one week’s imprisonment.
The High Court dismissed a motor insurance appeal, holding the appellant failed to prove the driver was insured under the policy and had not complied with the MIB agreement.
The Law Society succeeded in seeking striking off of a solicitor convicted of forgery and false evidence. The court held the dishonesty was integral and no exceptional facts justified a lesser sanction.
Disciplinary case against two Singapore lawyers for allowing a struck-off lawyer to control a client matter. One was suspended five years; the other was struck off.
The District Court partly reduced solicitor-and-client costs on taxation review, fixing section 1 at SGD 34,000 and leaving section 2 largely undisturbed.
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