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|name=Christopher de Souza | |name=Christopher de Souza | ||
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|data01= • | |data01= • Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore <br /> • MP for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC | ||
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Since 2006, de Souza has served on various Government Parliamentary Committees (GPCs). He was Deputy Chairman of the GPC for Manpower from 2011 to 2015 and has been Chairman of the GPC for Home Affairs and Law since 2015. In 2009, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. On 31 August 2020, he was elected Deputy Speaker of Parliament alongside Jessica Tan. | Since 2006, de Souza has served on various Government Parliamentary Committees (GPCs). He was Deputy Chairman of the GPC for Manpower from 2011 to 2015 and has been Chairman of the GPC for Home Affairs and Law since 2015. In 2009, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. On 31 August 2020, he was elected Deputy Speaker of Parliament alongside Jessica Tan. | ||
==Controversy== | |||
* while he was Deputy speaker of Parliament, Christopher de Souza, a lawyer by profession, was found guilty of professional misconduct by a disciplinary tribunal. <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250219155637/https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/lawyer-christopher-de-souza-faces-possible-disciplinary-action-improper-professional-conduct-2064761</ref> | |||
* Law Society brought 5 charges against him and argued for him to be suspended for four years. | |||
* But a disciplinary tribunal found that only one charge would stand. | |||
* he was found guilty by a two-member disciplinary tribunal in 2022 for helping his client suppress evidence by preparing and filing an affidavit that did not reveal his client had breached an undertaking not to use certain documents. | |||
* On one of the five charges brought against him by the Law Society, the tribunal found that there was cause of sufficient gravity for de Souza to face disciplinary sanction before the Court of Three Judges. | |||
* Decision by the Court of Three Judges 31 jul 2023 Mon cleared him of charge of professional misconduct as a lawyer<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250219155625/https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/court-acquits-lawyer-and-mp-christopher-de-souza-of-professional-misconduct-charge</ref> | |||
* court comprised Justices Belinda Ang, Woo Bih Li and Kannan Ramesh, reversed the tribunal's decision | |||
* Law Society of Singapore (LawSoc) was ordered to pay a refund of more than S$32,000 in costs to Christopher James de Souza after he was acquitted of improper professional conduct as a lawyer. | |||
== Personal life == | == Personal life == | ||