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SINGAPORE \u2013 A warrant of arrest review will be held for Lim Tean, who was to surrender on July 20 to begin\u00a0his jail term for practising law without a valid certificate<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n According to the court\u2019s Integrated Case Management System, the review will be held on Aug 17. These reviews are held to get updates on the status of an active warrant.<\/p>\n The Straits Times has contacted the Attorney-General\u2019s Chambers and the Singapore Judiciary to confirm that there is an active warrant of arrest for Lim.<\/p>\n Lim was convicted in July 2024 of three charges under the Legal Profession Act and was\u00a0sentenced to six weeks\u2019 jail and a fine of $1,000<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by a district judge in February 2025.<\/p>\n Lim, who is the secretary-general of the People\u2019s Alliance for Reform, had attended court hearings and submitted documents on 32 occasions between April and June 2021 while not having a valid practising certificate in force.<\/p>\n He later filed an appeal in the High Court against his conviction and sentence. Prosecutors also filed an appeal, for a stiffer sentence of between five and eight months\u2019 jail.<\/p>\n In February 2026, the High Court judge allowed the prosecution\u2019s appeal and enhanced\u00a0Lim\u2019s sentence to imprisonment of three months and a week.<\/p>\n Lim was back in court in April 2026, where he was fined $30,000<\/span><\/a> in a disciplinary case over his handling of a $30,000 cheque that was meant for his client.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Law Society of Singapore had\u00a0called for Lim to be struck off the rolls<\/span><\/a>, while Lim argued before the Court of Three Judges that \u201ca very small fine\u201d should be imposed.<\/p>\n The court cited several factors in imposing a \u201cheavier fine\u201d, including his cavalier attitude towards lawyers\u2019\u00a0<\/i><\/b>obligations in handling clients\u2019 money and his status as a senior practitioner with more than 25 years of experience at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A warrant of arrest review will be held for Lim Tean, who was to surrender on July 20 to begin\u00a0his jail term for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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