“Pay them well,” Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong said in response to the shortage of lawyers in Singapore. “Greed works most of the time, even for the large majority of people in affluent societies.” It is no wonder then that the legal profession is languishing in Singapore when junior lawyers are paid more than double in Hong Kong – about S$11,650 a month compared to about S$4,000 in Singapore. Particularly, the Committee headed by Justice VK Rajah which was tasked to undertake a comprehensive review of our legal services sector …

Mr Subhas Anandan is a well-known lawyer in the Singapore criminal field. He heads the Criminal Law Department in law firm KhattarWong as a Senior Consultant. Mr Anandan has been in practice for more than 25 years and has come to be synonymous with several of the landmark capital punishment cases, for example the Kallang Body Parts and Took Leng How’s cases. He has also defended clients who were arrested under the Internal Security Act (ISA). As a leading criminal lawyer who is totally committed to the development of criminal …

William O. Douglas, the longest serving Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States once mused: “Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man’s other inventions.” Indeed, while internal guidelines ensure that prosecutorial discretion is less than absolute in Singapore, the Public Prosecutor (officially the Attorney-General on whose authority the Deputy Public Prosecutors act) is undeniably a very important actor in the local criminal justice system.
As Mr. Winston Cheng, Deputy Public Prosecutor of the Attorney-General’s Chambers admitted during a talk held …