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Legal profession [2026] SGHC 22

THE LAW SOCIETY OF SINGAPORE v WILLJUDE VIMALRAJ S/O RAYMOND SURAS

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.

  • Striking off
  • Dishonesty offences
  • Forgery
  • False evidence
  • Admission to the bar
  • S 94a lpa
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Legal profession [2025] SGHC 244

Sunil Kishinchand Bhojwani v Law Society of Singapore

The High Court ordered the Law Society to seek appointment of a Disciplinary Tribunal over a lawyer’s alleged conduct during witness examination, and made no costs order.

  • Disciplinary proceedings
  • Professional conduct
  • Mandamus
  • Statutory review under s 96 lpa
  • Inquiry committee procedure
  • Costs
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Legal profession [2025] SGHC 234

THE LAW SOCIETY OF SINGAPORE v YEO YAO HUI, CHARLES (YANG YAOHUI)

The court affirmed disciplinary convictions for repeated solicitors’ accounts breaches, verification failures, dishonesty to court, and social media misconduct, and struck the respondent off.

  • Striking off
  • Grossly improper conduct
  • Misconduct unbefitting
  • Customer due diligence (pmlr)
  • Solicitors' accounts rules (sar) breaches
  • Duty of candour to the court
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Criminal procedure and sentencing [2025] SGCA 43

PANNIR SELVAM PRANTHAMAN v ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF SINGAPORE

The Court of Appeal held that the PACC Act is procedural only and refused to stay Pannir Selvam Pranthaman’s execution pending a Law Society complaint.

  • Stay of execution
  • Equal protection (article 12)
  • Policy on scheduling executions
  • Judicial review
  • Post-appeal applications in capital cases (pacc)
  • Legitimate expectation
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Legal profession [2025] SGHC 72

PULARA DEVMINIE SOMACHANDRA

The High Court dismissed an admission application after finding repeated academic dishonesty and serious non-disclosure. It imposed a five-year minimum exclusionary period.

  • Admission to the bar
  • Academic misconduct
  • Duty of candour
  • Minimum exclusionary period
  • Protective principle
  • Admission-to-the-bar
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Legal profession [2025] SGHC 136

The Law Society of Singapore v Yeo Poh Tiang (Yang Baozhen)

The Court of 3 Supreme Court Judges held that a solicitor’s false attestation on a lasting power of attorney was grossly improper conduct and imposed a four-month suspension.

  • False attestation
  • Lasting power of attorney
  • Certificate issuer duties
  • Suspension as sanction
  • Validity of executed instruments
  • False-attestation
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Medical professional regulation [2025] SGHC 129

Lee Pheng Lip Ian v Singapore Medical Council

The court upheld findings that Dr Lee committed professional misconduct by prescribing hormone therapies without sufficient medical basis and affirmed an 18-month suspension.

  • Hormone replacement therapy
  • Off-label prescribing
  • Professional misconduct standards
  • Sentencing of medical practitioners
  • Expert evidence
  • Delay in prosecution
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Criminal procedure [2025] SGCA 7

PANNIR SELVAM PRANTHAMAN v ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF SINGAPORE

The Court of Appeal granted permission for a post-appeal capital case application and stayed execution, but only on two grounds: the Law Society complaint and a pending constitutional challenge.

  • Stay of execution
  • Post-appeal applications in capital cases (pacc)
  • Presumptions under misuse of drugs act ss18(1),(2)
  • Disclosure of prisoners' correspondence
  • Delay and abuse of process
  • Law society complaint against counsel
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Employment law [2025] SGHC 10

EDDIE TAN TUNG WEE v SINGAPORE HEALTH SERVICES PTE LTD

The High Court held that a neurosurgeon’s repeated unauthorised access to patient records was gross misconduct, justifying summary dismissal and defeating his wrongful dismissal claim.

  • Unfair dismissal
  • Termination for gross misconduct
  • Patient confidentiality
  • Unauthorised access to electronic medical records
  • Disciplinary proceedings
  • Whistleblowing
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Legal profession [2024] SGHC 214

Attorney-General v Jill Phua

The court struck off Jill Phua for failing to disclose a plagiarism reprimand in her admission affidavit and imposed a two-and-a-half-year reinstatement interval.

  • Duty of candour
  • Striking off
  • Reinstatement interval
  • Academic misconduct (plagiarism)
  • Legal-profession-discipline
  • Duty-of-candour
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