Court of Three Judges clears Deputy Speaker of Parliament of one charge of helping client suppress evidence.
SINGAPORE — Holland-Bukit Timah GRC Member of Parliament Christopher de Souza was cleared of improper professional conduct as a lawyer on Monday .of helping a client suppress evidence from the court.- the highest disciplinary body for the legal profession in Singapore - the Law Society had argued for de Souza to be suspended for four years.
The court, comprising Justices Belinda Ang, Woo Bih Li and Kannan Ramesh, said that the Law Society did not prove beyond reasonable doubt that de Souza had intended to help his client suppress evidence.How the case arose Amber had obtained several documents through a search order in 2018. It used some of these documents to make reports to investigative agencies, and this breached its undertaking not to use them without further order.
The Law Society had raised five charges against de Souza, but a disciplinary tribunal found him guilty of only one charge.On Monday, the Court of Three Judges grilled both de Souza's lead counsel, Senior Counsel Tan Chee Meng, as well as Madan Assomull, who was representing the Law Society.CNA reported that the court questioned Assomull on the framing of the charge, as well as on what Law Society's precise case was as to de Souza's intention to suppress evidence.
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