Lee Suet Fern found guilty of misconduct over handling of Lee Kuan Yew’s final will

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SINGAPORE: A disciplinary tribunal has found lawyer Lee Suet Fern guilty of grossly improper professional conduct in the preparation and execution ...

in 2017. The demolition clause was in early versions of the will but was subsequently removed.

Mrs Lee’s lawyers also asserted in written submissions that the LawSoc had not proven its charges against her.The disciplinary tribunal found that Mrs Lee did not alert and advise Mr Lee on the differences between the draft last will she gave him and his sixth will.For instance, Mr Lee was not advised that the draft will"inserted a Demolition Clause , even though three days earlier, Mr Lee was not going to have such a clause".

During proceedings, Mrs Lee and her husband tried to “explain away” their conduct, the contemporaneous documentary evidence and their previous statements, according to the report. The tribunal also said Mrs Lee and her husband arranged for Mr Lee to revoke the penultimate will in its entirety, and arranged for him to execute a new will.

“They took steps to have lawyers from the Respondent’s law firm, Stamford Law, engross and witness the last will for Mr Lee, hurriedly,” the disciplinary tribunal said in its report.Mrs Lee had sent a draft of what eventually became the final will on Dec 16, 2013. The draft also gave Dr Lee Wei Ling an unfettered right to stay at 38 Oxley; in the sixth will, this was conditional upon Mr Lee Hsien Loong’s consent.At the time of the public spat between the siblings, the current prime minister, in a statutory declaration to a ministerial committee set up by the Cabinet to consider options for the house,, which stated his wish for his house to be demolished.

 

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