SINGAPORE – The outgoing president of the Law Society said details of an ongoing probe within the organisation were not made known to her, despite multiple enquiries.
Ms Lisa Sam Hui Min, who will remain a council member of the professional body, said in a late night LinkedIn post on Dec 17 that she had repeatedly asked TSMP Law Corporation for written details of the allegations to no avail.
The Law Society did not earlier respond to queries from The Straits Times on the allegations and the probe.
ST had reported on Dec 16
that TSMP Law was commissioned by the Law Society’s audit committee in September to investigate allegations of workplace misconduct and excessive spending during overseas trips.
In her post, Ms Sam said: “(I’m) surprised and deeply troubled because details of what was supposed to be an independent, confidential process over anonymous reports and unsubstantiated assertions commissioned by the Law Society’s Audit Committee and delegated to TSMP Law Corporation, were somehow provided to the press, even before I was given the details.”
The allegations of workplace bullying had first emerged online in September. The online post sparked the internal investigation of the Law Society.
