Pritam Singh, leader of the Workers’ Party (WP) and Member of Parliament for Aljunied GRC, was struck off the rolls of advocates and solicitors in Singapore on August 13, 2026. The Court of Three Judges, Singapore’s highest legal disciplinary body, made the order following Singh’s criminal conviction for lying under oath to a parliamentary Committee of Privileges investigating former WP MP Raeesah Khan’s false claims in Parliament [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
Singh was convicted in February 2025 on two counts of giving false evidence under oath. He lost his appeal in December 2025 and paid a fine of S$14,000 for the offences. The disciplinary proceedings against him began in March 2026 after the Attorney-General’s Chambers notified the Law Society of Singapore that Singh had been convicted of offences involving dishonesty [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
The court panel comprised Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, Justice Kannan Ramesh, and Justice See Kee Oon. Chief Justice Menon said it "was not disputed that the WP chief's offences involved dishonesty, and did not meet the high threshold for an exception to being struck off" [1, 2, 3, 5]. Senior Counsel Cavinder Bull, representing the Law Society, argued that misconduct involving dishonesty almost always leads to striking off unless exceptional circumstances exist. He said no such circumstances applied in Singh’s case [1, 2, 3].
Senior Counsel Chelva Rajah, representing Singh, accepted the dishonesty element and conceded that the legal threshold to avoid disbarment was not met. He said Singh had "always shown a deep respect for Singapore’s courts" but did not dispute that dishonesty was essential to the offences [1, 2, 3, 4].
The court also noted Singh’s prominent public role as an MP aggravated the negative impact of his misconduct, rather than mitigating it [1, 2, 3]. Singh, however, remains the WP secretary-general and an MP despite his conviction and disbarment. He was removed as Leader of the Opposition by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong in January 2026 due to the conviction [4].
Singh is the third lawyer struck off in Singapore in 2026, following Steven John Lam Kuet Keng in July and Charles Yeo in November 2025. Disbarred lawyers may apply to the Court of Three Judges to be reinstated to practice if they can show they are fit to do so [6, 7, 8].
