Singapore lawyer suspended for 'baseless' attacks against judiciary

Lawyer M. Ravi suspended for five years over ‘baseless’ allegations against justice system. He had initially been ordered by a disciplinary tribunal to pay a penalty of S$6,000. - The Straits Times/ANN

Singapore, March 21, 2023 (AFP): A Singapore rights lawyer, one of a handful defending death-row convicts in the city-state, was suspended for five years on Tuesday for making "baseless" allegations against the judicial system.

M. Ravi had told an online publication outside the Supreme Court in 2020 that the public prosecutor had been "overzealous in his prosecution", after he helped a Malaysian drug convict escape the death penalty on review.