Singapore's oldest practising lawyer died early on Friday morning, aged 88.
Mr V. Ramakrishnan, one of a vanishing breed of self-made men who went to read law in London on a shoestring budget over 50 years ago, was devoted to his craft, so much so that he kept asking to go back to his office despite being gravely ill in hospital for the past fortnight.
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