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Lawyers raise concerns over move to cut fees
They discuss proposals with Law Minister Shanmugam
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The scale legal costs concept is to signal clearly to the parties there is a fixed price the moment they decide to resolve their dispute in court.
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In one of the Law Society's biggest townhall sessions, close to 1,000, or one in five, practising lawyers turned up on Monday to discuss with Law Minister K Shanmugam the recommended scale costs they could charge under the proposed civil justice reforms
This move to peg professional legal fees to the amount claimed in civil suits was one of several recommendations of the Civil Justice Commission (CJC) appointed by Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon in 2015.
