ANNUAL ELECTION OF COUNCIL 2021 FOR TWO OUT OF THREE CATEGORIES
12 October 2020 Our Ref: LS/1/CouElect/20-01/DLT To: Practitioner Members of the Law Society of Singapore ANNUAL ELECTION OF COUNCIL 2021 FOR TWO OUT OF THREE CATEGORIES There will be an election of Council for two (2) out of three (3) categories. | ||||||||||||||||
| A | NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR ELECTION The following candidates have been nominated for election to the 2021 Council of the Law Society of Singapore. | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | SENIOR CATEGORY (not less than fifteen years’ standing)
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| As there are six (6) candidates for four (4) places in the Senior Category, THERE WILL BE AN ELECTION IN THIS CATEGORY. | ||||||||||||||||
| (2) | MIDDLE CATEGORY (less than fifteen years’ but not less than five years’ standing)
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| As there are four (4) candidates for one (1) place in the Middle Category, THERE WILL BE AN ELECTION IN THIS CATEGORY. | ||||||||||||||||
| (3) | JUNIOR CATEGORY (less than five years’ standing)
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| As there are two (2) candidates for two (2) places in the Junior Category, THERE WILL BE NO ELECTION IN THIS CATEGORY. Marshall Lim Yu Hui and Abhinav Ratan Mohan are deemed elected to the Council pursuant to section 53(1) Legal Profession Act. | ||||||||||||||||
| B | ELECTION IN TWO CATEGORIES: | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | ELIGIBILITY TO VOTE Senior Category Every advocate and solicitor who has in force a practising certificate on 12 October 2020 and who on that date is of not less than 15 years’ standing (Senior Category) shall be required to vote at the election for up to four (4) candidates of like standing. Please refer to the list of eligible voters for Senior Category here. Middle Category Every advocate and solicitor who has in force a practising certificate on 12 October 2020 and who on that date is of less than 15 years’ but not less than 5 years’ standing (Middle Category) shall be required to vote at the election for up to one (1) candidate of like standing. Please refer to the list of eligible voters for Middle Category here. | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | ELECTION TO BE CONDUCTED BY WAY OF INTERNET VOTING (‘I-VOTING’) The Annual Election of Council will be conducted by way of i-voting. The Election will be held on FRIDAY, 30 OCTOBER 2020 between the hours of 7.00am and 7.00pm (Singapore time, both times inclusive) (‘Election Hours’). The Election Hours will be strictly observed. The Law Society will soon send an e-mail to all eligible voters to inform them to pre-register for i-voting at the Society’s website. | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | VOTING IS COMPULSORY Voting is compulsory and must be done via i-voting. Reference is made to section 50(2) of the Legal Profession Act:
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| (4) | IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO CAST YOUR BALLOT A member who is required to vote but is unable to vote at an election, because he is not in Singapore at the time of the election or has a good and sufficient reason for not doing so, may write to the Registrar, Supreme Court (and not the Law Society of Singapore) AFTER the date of the Election, 30 October 2020. Implication of I-Voting on Members Overseas The introduction of the i-voting process does not preclude a member, who is overseas on election day and who fails to vote, from writing to the Registrar (after the date of the election) pursuant to section 50(2)(a) of the Legal Profession Act to request a waiver of the voting requirement. | |||||||||||||||
| (5) | RETURNING OFFICER AND SCRUTINEERS Delphine Loo Tan, Chief Executive Officer, is the Presiding and Returning Officer for the Election. The Scrutineers for the Election are as follows: (1) Ms Moi Sok Ling (2) Mr Koh Li Qun, Kelvin (Xu Liqun) (3) Ms Kan Shimin, Lynn The counting of ballots will be conducted electronically and shall take place immediately after the close of the Election Hours and the results declared at the completion of the counting. Members will be informed via e-mail of the results of the Election as soon as practically possible after the counting of the ballots. | |||||||||||||||
| (6) | MESSAGES OF CANDIDATES The Society will post the messages (if any) of the candidates on the Law Society’s website at www.lawsociety.org.sg after 12 October 2020. | |||||||||||||||
Yours faithfully  Delphine Loo Tan Chief Executive Officer for and on behalf of The Council of The Law Society of Singapore | ||||||||||||||||
