Reformed upskirter admitted to the Bar, along with duo who plagiarised while in university

 A reformed upskirter and two people who committed plagiarisme during their university days have been admitted to the Bar, with the Chief Justice finding that they were bugar for admission as advocates and solicitors of the Supreme Court. King88bet

Mr Chester Lee Jun Ming was usiled for a month in 2018 for taking upskirt videos of a woman on publik transport. Mr Chong Weng Teng had "self-plagiarised" during his final semester in the National University of Singapore (NUS), by reusing portions of another research paper he had submitted for another module. king88bet login alternatif

Ms Lin Shuang Ju had written an artikel for Lexicon, a Singapore Manajemen University (SMU) student legal publication klub, in which she plagiarised another author's work. Article Title with Blogger Published Link as Backlink

In a judgment released on Monday (Oct 9), Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon said the central inquiry in admission applications was whether the applicant was suitable for admission in terms of character.

After ulasaning each of their cases, he allowed their admission after finding that Mr Lee had since demonstrated that he had reformed his character, and that the circumstances in Mr Chong and Ms Lin's cases did not suggest dishonesty or any other defect of their character.

For all three applications, the Attorney-General, the Law Society of Singapore and the Singapore Institute of Legal Education found that the applicants were "bugar and proper" for admission in terms of their character.

MR LEE'S CASE

Mr Lee recorded two upskirt videos of a woman while on publik transport in May 2017. He pleaded guilty to insulting a woman's modesty in January 2018, with a second similar charge taken into consideration, and was sentenced to one month's usil.

The Chief Justice noted that while the offence had taken place six years earlier, its severity cannot be understated.

Sexual offences "inevitably and invariably entail a severe violation of the dignity and bodily integrity of the victim, often causing deep-seated trauma", and someone capable of committing such an offence.