2011
Asia's Rise A 'Win-Win For Lawyers'
At the opening ceremony of SMU's Commencement 2011, Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong said new lawyers would be providing services to a vibrant Asia whose combined economies will eclipse the major economies of today. The School of Law's pioneer batch of 106 students received their degrees, and 18 graduated from Singapore's first Juris Doctor programme, including MP for Aljunied GRC, Mr Pritam Singh.
30 July 2011
Back To School At 46, Now He's Got A Law Degree
SMU's School of Law is the first here to introduce the Juris Doctor programme, an American-style system of graduate legal education for those interested in a second career in law. Mr Asoka Markandu, 48 and the oldest among the first cohort of 18 JD graduates, believes “the practice of law is developed around a mentorship model and the challenge is to find the right mentor no matter what their age….”
30 July 2011
Chen Show-Mao Supports Aljunied GRC Fellow Team-Mate Pritam's Graduation
MP Pritam Singh graduates from SMU Juris Doctor programme and Chen Show-Mao who is the Advisory Board Member of the SMU School of Law was present at the graduation ceremony to show his support.
30 July 2011
First Juris Doctor Cohort Graduates
Pritam Singh and Hilary Ann Tseng Li Ping are among SMU's first batch of Juris Doctor graduates.
30 July 2011
Holding To A Moral Compass Against The Pull Of Profits
Assistant Professor Eugene Tan writes that as Singapore society becomes more complex, our law schools cannot just produce good legal technicians but are challenged to produce lawyers who are innovators and can utilize the law creatively to produce effective and efficient outcomes, and solutions infused with social justice and fairness. Today, the first batch of SMU law students comprising 106 LLB and 17 Juris Doctor degree students graduates.
29 July 2011
Pritam Retracts Coalition Suggestion
Pritam Singh, SMU Juris Doctor postgraduate, has retracted his comments at a political forum organised by the Institute of Policy Studies and clarified that being part of a coalition government is not one of the Workers' Party's aims although it is “prepared to work with other political parties in the interest of Singaporeans”.
10 July 2011
Sylvia Lim Unlikely To Become Full Time MP
MP elect Pritam Singh, who will soon graduate from the SMU Juris Doctors programme, says he is unlikely to become a full-time MP as being in the corporate world would allow him to have a deeper understanding of the concerns of working professionals.
15 May 2011
Teammates Are All Praise For Pritam
MP-Elect Pritam Singh of the Workers' Party - a postgraduate law student at SMU who will finish his studies by the end of the month – is well-liked by his team mates.
9 May 2011
Pritam Singh
Mr Pritam Singh joined the Singapore Management University's Juris Doctor programme in 2009 and is slated to be called to the Bar at the end of this year.
8 May 2011
‘I Know What To Expect, I Guess': WP's Glenda Han
Worker' Party candidate Mr Pritam Singh, currently a Juris Doctor candidate with SMU, said that he had initially contemplated going into politics only after practising law for at least five years but later decided that he would do it now as it felt that it was the right time.
26 April 2011
Workers' Party – Pritam Singh
Worker' Party Young Wing Exco member Pritam Singh is a Juris Doctor candidate with SMU and founder of Opinion Asia ( www.opinionasia.com ), an online commentary syndicate. He feels that Singaporeans must take ownership of their country by participating actively in the process behind policy-making and nation-building.
26 April 2011
Chen: I Never Stopped Being A Singaporean
Apart from lawyer Chen Show Mao, the Workers' Party also unveiled three other candidates including 34-year-old SMU postgraduate law student Pritam Singh.
26 April 2011
She Doesn't Want To Be A One-Hit Wonder Babe
Besides Ms Glenda Han, the other candidates introduced yesterday were WP's “star” catch, [School of Law Advisory Board Member] Chen Show Mao, 50; entrepreneur Yee Jenn Jong, 46; and Mr Pritam Singh, 34, a Juris Doctor candidate at SMU.
26 April 2011
Another Trump Card For The Workers' Party?
Another Workers' Party potential candidate Pritam Singh is currently pursuing a Juris Doctor at SMU
3 April 2011
Postgraduate Law Student Is Potential WP Candidate
Postgrad law student Pritam Singh, who studied history and political science at the National University of Singapore and enrolled in the Singapore Management University's Juris Doctor programme, which gives mid-career professionals the chance to do a law degree, in 2009, is a potential Workers' Party candidate.
2 April 2011
Career Changeover
Mid-career switchers like Suja Thomas and Julian Chow traded their jobs as communications lecturer and classical musician respectively to become a lawyer and private banker by enrolling in SMU's Juris Doctor and Master of Science in Wealth Management.
3 February 2011