Law Society 'carefully Tracking' Topics Concerning Lawyer M Ravi, Will Take 'appropriate Action'

SINGAPORE: The Law Society (LawSoc) said on Thursday (Nov 25) it's far intently tracking matters regarding lawyer M Ravi, who has made headlines for his behaviour in current weeks.

On Monday, all through the primary day of a tribulation delivered with the aid of bus drivers against SBS Transit, Mr Ravi known as the delivery operator's legal professional Davinder Singh a "clown" and asked the choose to recuse herself from the case after alleging that she became "biased".

In the times that accompanied, his customers discharged him as their legal professional and appointed Lim Tean to replace him, saying he had embarrassed them and let them down "very badly".

Responding to CNA's queries, LawSoc, which regulates legal professionals in Singapore, stated: "The Law Society is intently tracking matters regarding Mr M Ravi. The society is thinking about these matters and could take appropriate motion."

Mr Ravi, who has been making allegations about fellow legal professionals on his public Facebook web page in recent weeks, turned into ordered through the Court of Appeal in May to pay the prosecution non-public charges over an utility he made within the case of a drug trafficker on demise row.

The three-decide court referred to as Mr Ravi's conduct "egregious", "improper" or even "grandstanding". He selected to advance an unmeritorious utility and incurred "needless costs", elevating various arguments "to look what might stick", the court docket said.

The judges discovered that Mr Ravi had added the utility in abuse of procedure and acted improperly, together with his conduct "(falling) quick of what is anticipated of reasonable defence recommend".

In October 2020, the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) filed a disciplinary complaint to LawSoc against Mr Ravi over "possible expert misconduct".

This turned into after he purportedly failed to apologise for and retract allegations over the case of some other drug trafficker, whose dying sentence was overturned by using the Apex Court.

In December 2020, Mr Ravi changed into charged in court with crook defamation of Law Minister K Shanmugam, by bringing up an allegation that Mr Shanmugam "calls the (pictures)" and "wields have an impact on" over the Chief Justice.

In March this year, AGC discontinued the crook complaints at the circumstance that Mr Ravi popular a 24-month conditional warning for the offence, deleted the applicable Facebook publish and published an apology and mission now not to copy the allegations.

This turned into after "careful attention" of representations by means of Mr Ravi's defence counsel, AGC stated at the time.

In 2016, Mr Ravi become barred from applying for a practising certificates for two years, with a court docket announcing his intellectual circumstance prompted him to conduct himself "deplorably when it comes to the judiciary, his customers and the profession as an entire".

Mr Ravi, who has bipolar disease, lower back to law practice in 2019.

Under the Legal Profession Act, lawyers discovered responsible of misconduct can be censured, prohibited from applying for a practicing certificates for as much as five years, ordered to pay a penalty of as much as S$20,000 or struck off the roll.