Singapore legislation
Regulation 33
Regulation 33
Supervising solicitor
Subregulation 1
A solicitor must not be the supervising solicitor of a practice trainee unless the solicitor —
(a)
is in active practice in a Singapore law practice; and
(b)
has in force a practising certificate for a total of not less than 5 out of the 7 years immediately preceding the date of starting his or her supervision of the practice trainee.
Subregulation 2
Subject to paragraph (3), a supervising solicitor must not supervise more than 2 practice trainees at any time.
Subregulation 3
A supervising solicitor does not contravene paragraph (2) if the period of supervising more than 2 practice trainees at the same time is less than 3 months.