The Legal Service is an autonomous part of the Singapore Civil Service. The employment of liaison officers is the sole responsibility of the service and is independent of the Singapore Civil Service. The Legal Services Commission, established under Section 111 of the Constitution of Singapore,[2] oversees the appointment, dismissal and discipline of members of the Service. [3] 1. Positions in the judicial system include district judges and magistrates in state and family courts, as well as vice-chancellors on the Supreme Court. Legal Service positions include prosecutors, legal writers and government lawyers within the AGC, as well as other legal functions in government agencies. ↩ Arabic numeral. If the respective chairpersons of the committees, the chairman of the PSC or the Prime Minister appoint two members, at least one of the two members must have legal training and seniority. The requirement that designated members must not be civil servants, parliamentarians, leaders of political associations or members of trade unions is maintained. ↩ One. The guiding principle should be to minimize disruption to judicial and legal organizations, agencies and the work and development of LSOs. b. As a general rule, international liaison officers should be assigned to the service according to the branch to which they will be transferred at the time of the effective date of the restructuring (e.g.
a staff member in a judicial system position will be assigned as an MCO; and vice versa for a staff member of the legal service). c. Staff members were to remain in the newly constituted legal service or be transferred to the new judicial service, under the same conditions of service as those applicable to it immediately prior to the restructuring. The Singapore Legal Service is the collective body of lawyers working in the courts, attorneys` offices and legal departments of various ministries and legal bodies in Singapore. [1] Lawyers who are part of the Legal Department are called Legal Services Officers (LSOs). The working group examined transition issues related to the restructuring of the legal service and presented its findings to the government on 22 September 2021. Taking into account feedback from a number of public meetings open to all LSOs, the working group highlighted its recommendations on a number of key issues to be addressed in the event of restructuring, including: Distinct services to meet the demands of a complex and evolving legal environment Appendix – Separate Judicial and Legal Services Infographic (83.2 KB) As at December 31, 2008, there were 307 Legal Officers[4] – about 10% of lawyers practising in Singapore. [5] The current Chair of the Legal Service is Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon. One.
Establishment of a separate judicial service overseen by a newly established JSC headed by the Chief Justice. Legal officers currently holding judicial positions, such as: Deputy Registrars of the Supreme Court and District Judges and Magistrates of State and Family Courts will be transferred to the new Judicial Service as Judicial Service Officers (JSO). b. The resulting changes are made to the Legal Service, which is overseen by a newly constituted Commission des services juridiques (LSC) and headed by the Attorney General. The Legal Service will include international liaison officers in other (non-judicial) positions within government, such as the Attorney General`s Office or ministries. Staff advice. With the reconstitution of the Legal Service and the creation of a new Judicial Service, a system of autonomous staff committees will no longer be appropriate. Instead, the Commission maintains full oversight of all established staff committees. This article on law in Asia is a stub.
You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. One. Each committee is empowered to delegate all its functions and powers to one or more staff committees, with the exception of those relating to (1) senior officials of a given grade or higher and (2) disciplinary measures and dismissal of officials. The functions and powers in these two areas are exercised directly by the Commission. b. The appointment of members of the Staff Councils remains subject to the approval of the President. Composition. The members of each Commission shall be composed as follows: a.
The Chief Justice will be the President of the JSC. The Attorney General will be Chair of the LSC. b. The President of the Public Service Commission (PSC) will be Vice-President of the JSC and the LSC. c. The respective committee chairs, the PSC chair and the prime minister may each appoint up to two members for the respective committees, subject to the consent of the chair.2 Systematic development of the legal service over the years.