Leong Wai Nam, who stole over $93,000 of clients' money, had his jail sentence increased from 3 years, 8 months to 6 1/2 years on appeal to the High Court. Justice Tay Yong Kwang agreed that a stiff sentence was needed to stop the increasing number of dishonest lawyers stealing clients' money.
Leong had pocketed the monies instead of banking them with various other law firms with whom he had revenue sharing arrangements. In addition, he had deceived a businessman by pretending that he could act for the latter even though Leong had no practising certificate.
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