A short histroy of M Ravi. Compiled by ST in 2008.
Sept 12, 2003: High Court judge Woo Bih Li reports M. Ravi to the Law Society for improper conduct.
When representing a client in a capital case, he continues presenting his arguments even after the judge tells him the case is over.
Ravi sits down several times when Justice Woo is speaking to him.
When the judge warns Ravi that he is going to report him, he says: ‘That’s fine… I am migrating next month to Australia.’
He is later fined $1,000 by a disciplinary committee.
Sept 19, 2003: Ravi interrupts Justice Lai Kew Chai while he is giving his decision. The judge says: ‘Mr Ravi, there’s one thing you must know: When a judge is delivering grounds of judgments, he must not be interrupted.’
Earlier, Ravi apologises for his behaviour before Justice Woo, to which Justice Lai says: ‘Once you recognise you are young, that is the beginning of wisdom.’
Ravi then says: ‘I’m so thrilled to have judges like you that listen to me, that I will stay back in Singapore.’
Sept 25, 2003: While seeking a stay of execution for his client, Ravi asks then-chief justice Yong Pung How to excuse himself from the case as he has also turned down his client’s earlier appeal.
Then-CJ Yong smiles and says: ‘Your impression of the law may well be right, but it’s not in accordance with mine.’
The three-judge Court of Appeal dismisses the appeal after listening to Ravi’s arguments for three hours.
Oct 26, 2003: Ravi asks a district judge to hear his case first when she is hearing another case. When the judge asks him to stand up when she is talking to him, he says she did not address him properly.
November 2003: Ravi is arrested for disorderly behaviour at a bar in Havelock Road.
December 2005: The Law Society reprimands Ravi for misconduct in a prison when he visits a client there barefoot and in religious robes.
He had failed to produce a letter granting him permission to speak to his client and created a scene, threatening to sue the prisons officer when he was not allowed to see his client.
2006: Ravi is suspended for a year by the Court of Three Judges. He is the first lawyer to come before the court with five previous transgressions, having been reprimanded and fined previously.
When the three judges are deliberating, Ravi hums a few tunes and makes loud remarks.
He also lets slip: ‘I have no respect for the judiciary and the legal profession.’
Sept 12, 2003: High Court judge Woo Bih Li reports M. Ravi to the Law Society for improper conduct.
When representing a client in a capital case, he continues presenting his arguments even after the judge tells him the case is over.
Ravi sits down several times when Justice Woo is speaking to him.
When the judge warns Ravi that he is going to report him, he says: ‘That’s fine… I am migrating next month to Australia.’
He is later fined $1,000 by a disciplinary committee.
Sept 19, 2003: Ravi interrupts Justice Lai Kew Chai while he is giving his decision. The judge says: ‘Mr Ravi, there’s one thing you must know: When a judge is delivering grounds of judgments, he must not be interrupted.’
Earlier, Ravi apologises for his behaviour before Justice Woo, to which Justice Lai says: ‘Once you recognise you are young, that is the beginning of wisdom.’
Ravi then says: ‘I’m so thrilled to have judges like you that listen to me, that I will stay back in Singapore.’
Sept 25, 2003: While seeking a stay of execution for his client, Ravi asks then-chief justice Yong Pung How to excuse himself from the case as he has also turned down his client’s earlier appeal.
Then-CJ Yong smiles and says: ‘Your impression of the law may well be right, but it’s not in accordance with mine.’
The three-judge Court of Appeal dismisses the appeal after listening to Ravi’s arguments for three hours.
Oct 26, 2003: Ravi asks a district judge to hear his case first when she is hearing another case. When the judge asks him to stand up when she is talking to him, he says she did not address him properly.
November 2003: Ravi is arrested for disorderly behaviour at a bar in Havelock Road.
December 2005: The Law Society reprimands Ravi for misconduct in a prison when he visits a client there barefoot and in religious robes.
He had failed to produce a letter granting him permission to speak to his client and created a scene, threatening to sue the prisons officer when he was not allowed to see his client.
2006: Ravi is suspended for a year by the Court of Three Judges. He is the first lawyer to come before the court with five previous transgressions, having been reprimanded and fined previously.
When the three judges are deliberating, Ravi hums a few tunes and makes loud remarks.
He also lets slip: ‘I have no respect for the judiciary and the legal profession.’
You want to hire him to sue HKH? 
