Former lawyer Soraya Hafsa Ibrahim was sentenced to four years and four months’ jail and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine. She misappropriated more than $527,000 from a client who has borderline intellectual functioning.
The man began molesting the victim – his second-oldest child – in 2018, when she was 11 or 12 years old.
On 1 April 2024, the Monetary Authority of Singapore launched COSMIC (“Collaborative Sharing of Money Laundering / Terrorism Financing Information & Cases”), the first centralised digital platform to facilitate the sharing of customer information among prescribed financial institutions to combat money laundering, terrorism financing, and proliferation financing globally. On the same day, the Financial Services and Markets Act 2022 ("FSMA") was amended to set out the legal basis and safeguards for such sharing. This update outlines key requirements under the FSMA and the COSMIC Notice.
On 16 April 2024, the Ministry of Manpower announced that the Tripartite Guidelines on Flexible Work Arrangement Requests will come into effect on 1 December 2024. The mandatory Guidelines set the minimum requirements that all employers are required to abide by and recommend other good practices for employers to consider in relation to formal requests for flexible work arrangements. The Guidelines replace the Tripartite Advisory on Flexible Work Arrangements issued in 2014 and the Tripartite Standard on Flexible Work Arrangements launched in 2017.
The Christopher Bathurst Prize, presented in collaboration between SAL and Fountain Court Chambers, is now accepting submissions for 15th edition of the annual essay writing competition! Open to all full-time law students of NUS, SMU, SUSS and young lawyers under 30 years old, this is your chance to showcase your legal prowess. The winner will win an all-expenses-paid two-week internship in London! Submissions close 28 June 2024 (4pm SGT).
Called Pair Search, the website search.pair.gov.sg is powered by a large language model (LLM) – the same technology behind ChatGPT – and also lets users sift through case judgments from the High Court and Court of Appeal.
No evidence so far document management systems containing client data affected; firm continues to operate as usual.
Such arrangements may eventually further entrench women as primary caregivers in the home.
Trade marks and trade names – Opposition to Registration and Invalidation
The lorry he was driving veered across three lanes before crashing into oncoming traffic, including a car driven by Emeritus Professor Tan Yock Lin.
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Cordlife said the sum its client is claiming for is between $60,000 and $250,000.