Informal Ethics Guidance for Young Lawyers
Since 2010, the Law Society has established a facility under the PracMentor
scheme to help young lawyers who have a query on an ethical issue. Young lawyers
can contact the Law Society’s Communications Department at telephone number 6530
0232 or 6530 0236, which will arrange for the appropriate Law Society
Secretariat staff to provide assistance. Please note the following conditions of
use for this service:
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The Law Society Secretariat accepts no liability whatsoever arising
from assistance given to callers or to any persons claiming through or
under them.
- Callers are obligated to independently verify statements of law,
procedure or fact made to them by the Law Society Secretariat, before
relying on them.
- The service must not be used as a substitute for the callers' own
thorough research and analysis or for the callers' own professional
judgment.
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The assistance given by
the Law Society Secretariat is merely to help identify ethical
issues and does not reflect the opinion of the Ethics Committee in
the matter.
Young lawyers who require formal written advice or guidance from the
Law Society’s Ethics Committee on an ethical issue should send their
queries to the Representation and Law Reform Department at
represent@lawsoc.org.sg. In
this regard, please refer to the Council’s Practice Direction 2 of 2009
on Guidelines for Inquiries to Ethics Committee.
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