Survivor Sentosa

Kudos to the Social and Welfare Committee of the Law Society of Singapore for the recent well-organised first-ever family day at Sentosa Island. Although subtitled ‘Survivor Sentosa’, the event was nothing like the grueling television series, but instead saw families engaging in friendly tugs-of-war and children battling with giant Q-tips. The only hardship suffered seemed to be the insufficient sticks of satay at the sumptuous buffet spread. Perhaps these deprived members ought to have taken a lesson from ‘The Amazing Race’!

Litter of the Law

Police in the city of Edinburgh are lobbying for the power to hand out on-the-spot fines for litter because council wardens are having no impact. Perhaps they should take a leaf out of Singapore litter laws and hand out corrective work orders too.

Skirt-changed

One would have thought we are out of the Dark Ages, but a new study in no less than the UK has found that female trainee solicitors are being short-changed by bosses who pay their male staff more.

Despite outnumbering them by three to two, women are still being paid an average of £1,300 less than their male counterparts and in Greater London the figure is £1,400.

The Law Society of England and Wales, which carried out the research, warned that it would act against any firms which were found guilty of discrimination.