Shanmugam: Spore Won't Turn Back, FT Lawyers Coming

• Yxxxone

  11 Aug 09, 19:02

  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aS6aOikDhoJg

  Bloomberg.com, 11 Aug 2009
  
  Singapore Won’t ‘Turn Back,’ Will License New Foreign Law Firms
  
  Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Singapore, which allowed six foreign law firms to practice local corporate law in December, will award more licenses as soon as next year if that would help the economy, Law Minister K. Shanmugam said.
  
  “The direction has been set and we don’t intend to turn back,” he said in an interview. The government will review the progress of its liberalization program in the first six months of 2010 and could award more licenses then if the market can “digest them,” he said.
  
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• Atobe

  12 Aug 09, 13:00

   

   

  Should it be time for someone from the legal profession to take an interest in Politics and offer to represent the interests of Singaporeans ?