Singapore court orders Lim Tean to start 3-month jail term July 20
What's new: The apex court refused his bid to raise four public-interest legal questions, ending the stay on his sentence.
Singapore’s Court of Appeal ordered lawyer and opposition politician Lim Tean to surrender at the State Courts on July 20 to begin serving a three months and one week jail term for practicing law without a valid certificate. The court refused his application to refer four questions of law to the apex court, ruling they were not matters of public interest and mostly would not have changed the outcome. Lim was convicted over 32 instances between April 1 and June 9, 2021, when he attended hearings and filed court documents without a valid practicing certificate. He was first sentenced in February 2025 to six weeks in jail and a S$1,000 fine, but the High Court later increased the term after the prosecution appealed.