JANUARY 10 — On Monday, January 8, 2024, the Malay Mail reported on the need expressed by the Singapore Chief Justice to incorporate better ethics training in legal education. Opening the Singapore legal year, Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon made reference to a report published recently by the Singapore Working Group for the Reform of Legal Education. That report stated: “Law schools should continue to expressly [sic] teach professional ethics and conduct standards in the context of legal practice through discrete modules and/or as applied ethics within existing substantive law course”. There is also a call in the report for the experiential learning of professional ethics.
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