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Court rules that lawyer, pap mp alvin yeo overcharged $1 million in legal fees

bakkuttay

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source: http://therealsingapore.com/content...mp-alvin-yeo-overcharged-1-million-legal-fees


Post date:
1 Oct 2014 - 9:21pm

PAP MP and lawyer Alvin Yeo has been found to have overcharged his client by over $1 million in legal fees in a case involving the Singapore Medical Council and a Doctor.

The courts found that Yeo’s law firm, Wong Partnership LLP, had initially charged a total of $1.33 million in legal fees but after the cost was disputed, it was brought down to $370,000.

Subsequently, during another hearing on the cost, the total price was brought down to $317,000.

This means that the team of lawyers, Senior Counsel Alvin Yeo and Lawyers Melanie Ho and Lim Wei Lee, had overcharged by over $1 million.

The court hearing the case said that the charges were “exorbitant” and “questionable”.

Initially, Alvin Yeo and his team were representing the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) in a case against Medical Doctor Susan Lim who had been accused of overcharging a patient of hers.

The court in that case ruled in favour of the SMC and ordered that Dr Susan Lim pay for costs to SMC which included their legal fees.

Subsequently, Wong Partnership LLC issued their statement of charges to SMC who passed the bill on to Dr Susan Lim but Dr Lim was shocked when she noticed the ridiculous fees charged by SMC’s lawyers.

On one of the statements, they charged $77,102 for each day in court. In another, the fee was $46,729 for every day in court and on the last statement, the fees were close to $100,000 for every hour they spent in court.

Dr Lim filed to have the bills reviewed in a taxation hearing, a process designed for such disputes were the losing party questions to fees of the winning party's legal fees.

The first taxation hearing agreed with Dr Lim that the fees were ridiculous and had them changed to $340,000. However, Alvin and Melanie disputed the taxation hearing’s decision and on appeal to the high court, were able to get the fees raised to $370,000.

However, the courts now have reduced the final amount to only $317,000 meaning that PAP MP Alvin Yeo and his law firm had unethically charged exorbitant fees, overcharging their clients by over $1 million.

It seems that Alvin Yeo is yet another greedy, super rich elite within the PAP parliamentary team. Do you think that someone who feels no moral objection to overcharging his clients by $1 million will ever understand the struggles of regular Singaporeans?
 

Ralders

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All these inhumane vermins money minded lawyers must have
their money n properties confiscate.donate to red cross.

Pap minded when eat must eat all bone also chew..dont waste..
 

spotter542

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It's not about helping the people or the country , it's about fattening their pockets that's why the chose to enter politics :oIo:
 

snowbird

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Haha, Dr Susan Lim getting a double dose of her own medicine.
Perhaps she should at least get some joy now by complaining to the legal council on the greedy lawyer's exorbitant overcharging and let them face a similar case and subsequently get barred from practice for 2 years like her.
 

cocobobo

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LOL.... susan and alvin....

case of kettle trying to con the pot.....
both belong in the scrapyard of humanity btw
 

cunnilaubu

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high-flying professionals' hobby - overcharging. :*:

Is the Lawsoc going to discipline Alvin? Suspend him just like SMA did to Susan?
 

Confuseous

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high-flying professionals' hobby - overcharging. :*:

Is the Lawsoc going to discipline Alvin? Suspend him just like SMA did to Susan?

The absolute toothless and useless Law Soc will do nothing. Period.
No one has the balls there. The key members have too much govt and GLC business to want to cross the MIW.
 

wendychan

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The absolute toothless and useless Law Soc will do nothing. Period.
No one has the balls there. The key members have too much govt and GLC business to want to cross the MIW.
Highly doubt it. Susan lim will have to file a complaint with law society, they will wayang A BIT but that's about it
 

SgGoneWrong

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Pap just keep showing that its members are protected. That's why yang yin joined the crooks to get protection.
 

YanDao

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This is of no surprise since we have seen many lawyers who are no difference from crooks for years.

Why do you think many of them are politicians.
 

congo9

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Highly doubt it. Susan lim will have to file a complaint with law society, they will wayang A BIT but that's about it

SMC could have said that they find more cases against Susan Lim case.

SMC will bar her for more years to come. She will be screwed. It just a matter of whether they want to do it . Look at how LKY blow up a case against CSJ decade back for a transport chargeable.
 

Tuayapeh

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high-flying professionals' hobby - overcharging. :*:

Is the Lawsoc going to discipline Alvin? Suspend him just like SMA did to Susan?




Alvin Yeo's firm is going into a tailspin because of its crippling debt right? Not enough reserves to do shit

Thats what is been said about his fucked up firm......... Not very financially prudent man..... Better sell his fucking multi million dollar apartments man..... Wait a minute ...the firms debts are not his personal problems..... Its supposed to be shared between him and the rest of the suckers they call as partners..... Hahaha too bad lor.....


No wonder his fucking knife is so sharp hor.......
 

tanwahtiu

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ho say leow,

time to get this lawyer office ( a business company) for criminal case fraudulent misrepresentation of invoicing, under Business Law Act.

Once the amount figures chargeable to their clients are mentioned in the courthouse seeking for money, it represents work done for the case, on-going bills to the clients.

These on-going invoicing bills and amounts presented to the court are accountable, liable and GST components inclusive. GST is tax payers revenue income to pay for the followings expenses for:

1. Court building

2. Air-conditioning bills

3. Judges wages and salaries

4. Civil servants wages

5. Tax payers funding lawyer education under free scholarship and more


There is no such thing as free lunch.

Also what they charge to their clients and what the court imposed on the cost is 2 different things.

The law office must charge the clients the mentioned invoices whereas the client pay amount the judge decision to the courthouse.

If law office did not charge $1.3M to their client there is a fraudulent misrepresentation here. We the tax payers want to see the income revenue (GST components, personal income of lawyers and company income tax) to flow into the tax payers bank account.

Everyone must pay tax.



source: http://therealsingapore.com/content...mp-alvin-yeo-overcharged-1-million-legal-fees


Post date:
1 Oct 2014 - 9:21pm

PAP MP and lawyer Alvin Yeo has been found to have overcharged his client by over $1 million in legal fees in a case involving the Singapore Medical Council and a Doctor.

The courts found that Yeo’s law firm, Wong Partnership LLP, had initially charged a total of $1.33 million in legal fees but after the cost was disputed, it was brought down to $370,000.

Subsequently, during another hearing on the cost, the total price was brought down to $317,000.

This means that the team of lawyers, Senior Counsel Alvin Yeo and Lawyers Melanie Ho and Lim Wei Lee, had overcharged by over $1 million.

The court hearing the case said that the charges were “exorbitant” and “questionable”.

Initially, Alvin Yeo and his team were representing the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) in a case against Medical Doctor Susan Lim who had been accused of overcharging a patient of hers.

The court in that case ruled in favour of the SMC and ordered that Dr Susan Lim pay for costs to SMC which included their legal fees.

Subsequently, Wong Partnership LLC issued their statement of charges to SMC who passed the bill on to Dr Susan Lim but Dr Lim was shocked when she noticed the ridiculous fees charged by SMC’s lawyers.

On one of the statements, they charged $77,102 for each day in court. In another, the fee was $46,729 for every day in court and on the last statement, the fees were close to $100,000 for every hour they spent in court.

Dr Lim filed to have the bills reviewed in a taxation hearing, a process designed for such disputes were the losing party questions to fees of the winning party's legal fees.

The first taxation hearing agreed with Dr Lim that the fees were ridiculous and had them changed to $340,000. However, Alvin and Melanie disputed the taxation hearing’s decision and on appeal to the high court, were able to get the fees raised to $370,000.

However, the courts now have reduced the final amount to only $317,000 meaning that PAP MP Alvin Yeo and his law firm had unethically charged exorbitant fees, overcharging their clients by over $1 million.

It seems that Alvin Yeo is yet another greedy, super rich elite within the PAP parliamentary team. Do you think that someone who feels no moral objection to overcharging his clients by $1 million will ever understand the struggles of regular Singaporeans?
 
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