The tribunal found it “difficult to believe” that Mr Lim, who has practised law for three decades, “did not know of the requirement to have a client account, or that he had to pay client’s money into this account”
SINGAPORE: Lawyer Lim Tean has been found guilty by a disciplinary tribunal of two charges of grossly improper conduct over the handling of S$30,000 belonging to an ex-client.
The matter surfaced after a complaint was made by Mr Lim’s former client, Mr Suresh Kumar A Jesupal. Mr Lim had represented Mr Suresh Kumar in a motor vehicle accident claim on October 2018.Willy Tay Chambers, the solicitors for AXA Insurance, paid S$30,000 to Carson Law Chambers, Mr Lim’s firm, on Nov 14, 2019.
A third charge of misappropriating the amount paid due to failing or neglecting to pay it to the client had also been brought by the Law Society of Singapore against Mr Lim, but this charge was later withdrawn when Mr Suresh Kumar did not provide the necessary evidence. It said that Mr Lim’s actions were not “accidental or inadvertent but deliberate” and that he did not show evidence of “what actually happened to the money thereafter”.
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