Singapore Institute of Legal Education

1. Undertaking Remote or Online Learning Arrangements for Overseas Law Degree Programmes (Guidance Note dated 24 August 2020)

The enclosed Guidance Note sets out the criteria under which students who undertake remote or online learning arrangements offered by the Overseas Scheduled Universities between 1 January 2020 and 30 June 2021 would not be considered to have infringed the requirement to be “full-time internal candidates” under Rule 10 of the Legal Profession (Qualified Persons) Rules.
24 Aug 2020

2. Results of the 2020 Session of the Foreign Practitioner Examinations
29 Jul 2020

The Singapore Institute of Legal Education ("the Institute") is a statutory body established under the Legal Profession Act (Cap. 161).

The Institute is managed by a Board of Directors comprising representatives from various stakeholders in the legal community. The Honourable Attorney-General, the President of the Law Society of Singapore, and the Deans of the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, the Singapore Management University School of Law and the Singapore University of Social Sciences School of Law are ex officio members of the Board of Directors. The remaining members of the Board of Directors are appointed by the President of the Singapore Academy of Law.

The Chairman of the Institute is the Honourable Justice Quentin Loh.

The Acting Dean of the Institute is Mr David Chong Gek Sian, SC.

The Institute is entrusted with maintaining and improving the standards of legal education in Singapore, and has powers to review the implementation of initiatives, programmes and curricula relating to legal education in Singapore, including diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and continuing professional development.

The Institute:

Maintains a register of qualified persons seeking admission to the Singapore Bar
Conducts Part A of the Singapore Bar Examinations
Conducts Part B of the Singapore Bar Examinations and the Preparatory Course leading to the Examinations
Conducts the Foreign Practitioner Examinations
Coordinates and supervises the Continuing Professional Development scheme