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The court, in an ex tempore judgment delivered by Sundaresh Menon CJ, granted the application and ordered that the respondent be struck off the Roll.

The court allowed the Law Society's application and ordered that Mr K V Sudeep Kumar be suspended from practice for five years, starting from his discharge from bankruptcy, and that Mr Dhanwant Singh…

The High Court allowed the application.

The court granted the application and ordered that the respondent be struck off the roll of advocates and solicitors.

The court found due cause shown and rejected the parties' agreed position.

The Court of Three Judges (Sundaresh Menon CJ, Tay Yong Kwang JCA and Andrew Phang Boon Leong SJ) allowed the application in part.

The court allowed the Law Society's application and ordered that Mr K V Sudeep Kumar be suspended from practice for five years, starting from his discharge from bankruptcy, and that Mr Dhanwant Singh…

The High Court allowed the application.

The Court of 3 Supreme Court Judges granted the Applications, affirmed the convictions on all the charges, and ordered that the respondent be struck off the roll of advocates and solicitors of the…

The court found due cause shown and rejected the parties' agreed position.

The court ordered no stay or adjournment for Mr Ariffin, finding him fit and proper, and directed that his application be set down for hearing.

The court dismissed the application for admission, ordered a minimum exclusionary period of five years before any fresh application, and made no order as to costs.

Sundaresh Menon CJ granted leave to withdraw the admission application and imposed a minimum exclusionary period of two years from 15 August 2024, rather than the four years sought, together with the…

The court, in grounds delivered by Sundaresh Menon CJ, allowed the Attorney-General's application and ordered that Ms Shahira Banu be struck off the roll.

Sundaresh Menon CJ dismissed the application and ordered that the applicant is not to bring a fresh application for admission in Singapore for a period of not less than five years from the date of…

The court found due cause shown and ordered that the respondent be suspended from practice for 12 months under s 83(1)(b) of the Legal Profession Act 1966, starting on 11 November 2025, the date of…

The court upheld the tribunal's finding on the main charge under s 83(2)(b) and ordered that Ms Yeo be suspended for four months, starting on 7 May 2025 at her request, with costs fixed at $5,000 to…

Ms Kasturibai did not dispute that due cause for sanction had been shown.

The Court of Three Judges dismissed the application, holding that the charge and its alternative were not proved beyond reasonable doubt.

The Court of Three Judges (Tay Yong Kwang JCA, Belinda Ang Saw Ean JCA and Andrew Phang Boon Leong SJ) set aside six of the 14 counts but upheld the rest, found due cause shown on both charges and…

The High Court dismissed the application for ad hoc admission, with costs of $8,000 all-in ordered against UTSS as the true party to the application rather than against the applicant.

The Court of Appeal dismissed both appeals and upheld the High Court's refusal of ad hoc admission.

The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal against the Preliminary Objection.

The court dismissed both applications for ad hoc admission.

The District Court held that it had jurisdiction to hear and determine the application.

The court dismissed the review application and went further than the Deputy Registrar, taxing section 1 costs down to $34,000.

The High Court dismissed both appeals and upheld the District Judge's assessment of Section 1 costs at $96,000 inclusive of GST, her orders on Section 2 costs, and the Section 3 disbursements.

The court ordered the defendants to pay the plaintiff costs fixed at $3,000 (all-in) on the standard basis for work up to the offer, and the plaintiff to pay the defendants $24,000 (all-in) on the…

Deputy Registrar Don Ho allowed the claim in part, awarding general damages of $9,800 and special damages of $3353.71 with the usual consequential orders.

The Court of Three Judges (Sundaresh Menon CJ, Tay Yong Kwang JCA and Andrew Phang Boon Leong SJ) allowed the application in part.

The court found due cause shown and ordered that the respondent be suspended from practice for 12 months under s 83(1)(b) of the Legal Profession Act 1966, starting on 11 November 2025, the date of…

The High Court dismissed the appeal and rejected the challenge to the personal costs order against EALC.

The Court of Three Judges granted the application and ordered that he be struck off the Roll of Advocates and Solicitors.

The Court of 3 Supreme Court Judges granted the Applications, affirmed the convictions on all the charges, and ordered that the respondent be struck off the roll of advocates and solicitors of the…

The Court of Three Judges (Sundaresh Menon CJ, Tay Yong Kwang JCA and Steven Chong JCA) allowed both applications, found due cause on all six charges, and ordered that Mr Ravi be struck off the roll.

The Court of Appeal allowed the Attorney-General's appeal, set aside the second tribunal's findings on the touting charges, and ordered the Law Society to apply to the Chief Justice for another…

The High Court dismissed the Attorney-General's application, leaving the tribunal's determination of 27 April 2023 in place.

The court allowed the Attorney-General's application and ordered that Ms Phua be struck off the roll, with a minimum reinstatement interval of two years and six months, subject to the usual…

The court, in grounds delivered by Sundaresh Menon CJ, allowed the Attorney-General's application and ordered that Ms Shahira Banu be struck off the roll.

The Court of Three Judges dismissed the application, holding that the charge and its alternative were not proved beyond reasonable doubt.

The Court of Three Judges (Tay Yong Kwang JCA, Belinda Ang Saw Ean JCA and Andrew Phang Boon Leong SJ) set aside six of the 14 counts but upheld the rest, found due cause shown on both charges and…

Sundaresh Menon CJ allowed the application and granted permission for a disciplinary tribunal to investigate the complaint.

Sundaresh Menon CJ allowed the application and granted permission for a disciplinary tribunal to investigate the complaint.

The court dismissed the application for an out-of-time order referring the bills to assessment.

The court allowed the application in part.

The court allowed the application in part.

The court allowed the application in part.

The court allowed the application in part.

The court allowed the application in part.

The court held that any exclusionary period should generally run from the date of the court order, not from the end of the practice training period.

The Court of 3 Supreme Court Judges granted the Applications, affirmed the convictions on all the charges, and ordered that the respondent be struck off the roll of advocates and solicitors of the…

The Assistant Registrar dismissed the defendant's setting-aside application, with the defendant liable for the claimants' costs of it.

Philip Jeyaretnam J dismissed the application, finding no basis to set aside the tribunal's determination or order a rehearing, and awarded costs to the Law Society, to be assessed by the court if…

Philip Jeyaretnam J dismissed the application, finding no basis to set aside the tribunal's determination or order a rehearing, and awarded costs to the Law Society, to be assessed by the court if…

The court dismissed the application for anonymisation, directed that the earlier grounds of decision cease to be redacted and be re-published naming the applicant, and ordered the parties to bear…

The court allowed the application in part.

The court dismissed both Originating Claim No 226 of 2024 and Originating Claim No 468 of 2023 in their entirety, finding the Goldciti engagement genuine and no implied term or directly owed duty in…

The court ordered that Mr Chen be struck off the roll of advocates and solicitors, upholding the second to eleventh charges in OA 2 and the first alternative, second and third charges in OA 5.