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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Err isn't Singapore aspiring to be a dispute resolution centre much like London, NY and HK? Haha I seldom doubt the Chief's words but is SICC really making the pie bigger in Singapore legal industry?
Yeah although it's really bad now i wish the Gov and its proxies will stop intervening in supply and demand of the lawyers at a whim. Focus on quality of graduates and lawyers called to the Bar. I would say, review the list of universities periodically, make Part A and Part B sufficiently tough to filter out those with not enough knowledge of Singapore law. I acknowledge all these are done by MinLaw and SILE already. One more step to set up a central portal for the award of TC ... enough done.
The legal profession should not act as if it has a monopoly of talent as well. If the industry prospects are no good you will see more bright young high school grads go for other careers. Left with the more mediocre ones who intends to fuel themselves via passion, the quality of lawyer will eventually suffer. Law schools don't make dumb people smarter. It attracts smart people to make them smarter. |
Singapore wants to be a hub/centre for every damn thing in the world. It's as though putting the suffix hub will justify govt policy on anything
Do you srsly think the pie will how larger? Did the pie grow larger for the life sciences grads 12 plus years ago? People have such short term memories. Reality is very different from government aspirations. And talk about having law grads kept on as paralegals don't exactly inspire confidence.
How much bigger can the pie grow anyway given that our economy had been low growth, listings have been down and we are losing luster as a financial city. There are only that many rich Indonesians for lawyers here to service