In the first such reported case here, a lawyer was charged last week with falsely stating in a letter that a law graduate had completed six months of supervised training in a bid to enrol him in the Singapore Institute of Legal Education's (Sile) Part B course of the Singapore Bar Examinations 2016.
Lawyer Sarbrinder Singh, 49, was also charged with criminal intimidation in an unrelated case, where he allegedly threatened to circulate explicit photos and videos of a foreign woman, which would have injured her reputation and caused her alarm.
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