The lawyer, who had 17 years' experience, had allegedly helped a client suppress evidence from the court by preparing and filing a document that did not disclose a breach by his client.
The 47-year-old, who is also Deputy Speaker of Parliament, asked to be acquitted instead. He was found guilty by a disciplinary tribunal of helping a client suppress evidence from the court.
LawSoc had raised five charges against Mr de Souza – a People's Action Party MP for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC – but a disciplinary tribunal found him guilty of only one charge. A total of 116,298 documents were seized in April 2018 under the search orders, and Amber breached its undertakings by making three reports in 2018 to the Ministry of Manpower, the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau and the Singapore Police Force, disclosing 10 documents.
They questioned Mr Assomull on the framing of the one charge Mr de Souza had been found guilty of, as well as on what LawSoc's precise case was as to Mr de Souza's intention to suppress evidence. Mr Assomull had argued that internal correspondence at Lee & Lee showed that Mr de Souza was aware of the breach, as well as the importance of disclosing it.
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