SINGAPORE — The names of six trainee lawyers who were found to have cheated while taking their Singapore Bar examinations are allowed to be publicly revealed, after the presiding judge had previously ruled that their identities be redacted in court documents.
In his latest judgment, Justice Choo said, “Initially I believed that redacting the names of the applicants would let them to go about the process of recovery quietly and uneventfully, but I am now of the view that it is better to face the publicity than to hide from it.” In this instance, Justice Choo said that “sometimes, redemption cannot be claimed behind the mask of anonymity, but by baring one's face and looking everyone in the eye.”
Five of the six applicants communicated with each other and shared answers in six of the papers through WhatsApp. The remaining applicant colluded with another examinee and cheated in three of the papers.The five applicants and the remaining applicant had been asked by the AG to adjourn their applications for six months and 12 months, respectively. The lawyers for the Law Society of Singapore, and the Singapore Institute of Legal Education, and the applicants agreed with the AG's proposal.
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