SINGAPORE — The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) has filed a complaint against lawyer M Ravi for releasing court documents on four cases to the media, including judicial reviews, constitutional challenges and court actions.

In response to queries, the AGC said the complaint was filed on Jan 24. “In each case, court documents and affidavits made by various persons were sent to the media before they had been served on the AGC,” an AGC spokesperson said. The complaint was made known to Mr Ravi in a letter from the Law Society dated March 11. A copy of the letter, which was marked “private and confidential”, was released to the media by Mr Ravi.

In the complaint, the AGC also set out details of three separate occasions in which Mr Ravi had made statements to the media that the AGC felt were “calculated to interfere with the fair conduct of legal proceedings”.

“The complaint was filed on the basis that Mr Ravi’s acts contravened the rules of conduct governing advocates and solicitors in Singapore, under the Legal Profession Act. It was filed by the AGC only after a sustained period of such conduct by Mr Ravi had been observed,” the AGC spokesperson said. “Mr Ravi will have an opportunity to present his case to the Disciplinary Tribunal in due course.”

In an email, Mr Ravi said the four cases are the constitutional challenge by Mr Lawrence Wee to prohibit discrimination on grounds of sexuality, judicial review applications relating to the Little India riot, the case of Cheong Chun Yin, a Malaysian who is facing execution, as well as court actions on the case of Dinesh Raman, an inmate who died in prison. CLAIRE HUANG