Those who cheated, by reason of case laws and statutory principles from the LPA, should be entirely barred from the legal profession.

Whilst it is recognised that the cheaters are not subject to the rules from LPA, they are entering a profession with the highest standard of integrity and thus the rules that apply to legal professionals should also apply to them.

There are also policy reasons for doing so - to uphold the public’s trust in our legal profession and to strongly discourage future candidates from doing so.

We should also maintain fairness to those who achieved the results through their sheer hard work. Those who tried to go through the easy path through blatantly and dishonestly disregarding the rules should be punished for their actions.

I hope the Court will do a thorough review on this and punish the wrongdoers fairly.