C C Tan Award 2020 Acceptance Speech
Mr Philip Jeyaretnam, SC I am deeply honoured to receive the C C Tan Award. I thank the Council of the Law Society for this award. I especially appreciate receiving it from President Gregory Vijayendran, who has devoted himself to the
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Dear Amicus Agony, I am a practice trainee in a mid-sized law firm. I have been working very hard since I joined, ever since RLT (Relevant Legal Training) days, and was very happy to be offered a contract by the partners,
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Coffee with Sadhana Rai
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Perfecting Isolation in a Time of COVID
When we ushered in the new decade on 31 December 2019, few of us could have imagined that our lives in 2020 would change so drastically. In a flurry, we went from our normal lives into a circuit breaker and were
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