The Attorney-General and the Law Society have separately applied for the High Court to review a disciplinary tribunal's (DT) decision to clear a Senior Counsel of allegedly overcharging a wealthy widow.
The case involves WongPartnership's Mr Alvin Yeo and a bill of $7.56 million for work done over a period of 4 ½ years from November 2010, on behalf of the elderly woman to fight an application from her sisters to become her deputies.
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