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Criminal Lawyer Subhas Anandan has passed away (7 Jan 2015)

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Toapayohkid

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read his book The Best I Could before, there are some interesting tidbits in there worth a read!!

 

one example is how Subhas revealed that Francis Seow owed him $25,000 since the 80s and till now haven pay. Like a real chettiar!

 

http://unravelling1987.blogspot.sg/2013/08/subhas-anandan-best-i-could-chapter-27.html

 

lol that is funny. in 80s must be big amount!

Why is he considered a top lawyer?

 

I don't see him winning cases

 

coz he gets all the no hope 100% guilty cases which are sensational media stories. druggies, murderers, even last time lawyer for ji terrorist.

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CupcakeOfDoom

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Well, for many of the cases he take he is not really aiming for acquittal. Sometimes, he just aim to help them siam death penalty or lower sentences. Maybe this can be seen as a mini win lo~

 

But to be honest, not that I know all his cases [sweatdrop] - only hear abit here abit there.

 

 

Why is he considered a top lawyer?

I don't see him winning cases

 

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Vid

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God bless him.

 

http://mypaper.sg/top-stories/confession-lawyer-who-went-hero-speed-0-20140604

 

 

Confession of a lawyer who went from hero to speed 0

 

THE man that rivals feared and clients pinned their hopes on has a confession to make.

"I got all my priorities wrong," says prolific criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan, now 66 and looking gaunt, at his Leonie Hill home.

"I spent too much time in my life chasing after fame and recognition," he told My Paper, his piercing gaze trained somewhere in the distance.

And as regrets go, he has one that goes decades back - the excessive drinks, the cigarettes, and all the stress that resulted in his dire state of health.

A few months ago, Mr Subhas found out that he was suffering from kidney failure. He has had heart failure from 2008.

"It was drastic, sudden. If I was going at 120 miles/h, I am at 0 now. But I am starting again," said the man who has always had a thing for fast cars.

He now goes for dialysis thrice a week. It leaves him tired and, from a robust 81kg, his weight has fallen to 64kg. "I have to wear all sorts of belts to keep my pants up," he said.

Sipping on a mixture of Perrier, water and lemon in an effort to satisfy a palate now used to Coke Zero and juices, he thanks his doctors at Singapore General Hospital.

Lying on a bed in the intensive care unit in hospital, not knowing whether he was going to live or die, he "cried a lot", he said.

And the reason? "Sometimes, you have no more strength to control your emotions." But he is no stranger to the hospital.

He has had three heart attacks since 1978, and lost one kidney to cancer in 2001. He also has diabetes, and blocked intestines.

But it was in 2008, before he was wheeled into the operating theatre, that he thought he was on his death bed.

He called his son, Sujesh, then 18, and told him to listen to his mother, and always to be with her.

Next, he called his wife, Vimala. He told her: "I see your face in every rose. I see your smile in every cloud."

And without another word, he succumbed to anaesthesia.

When he recovered, he was able to joke with his wife. "You always said I wasn't romantic. But when I thought I was dying, I was romantic."

While he was able to laugh over it, he said it was not funny then.

Mr Subhas, who had always liked his drinks and his cigarettes, gave up smoking in 1997, when he saw his son's face as he was being wheeled into the operating theatre. Sujesh was seven then.

He thought: "This boy, I brought him to earth. Is this how I am going to treat him?"

His son is now in his first year reading law at the University of Nottingham, after studying finance in a polytechnic here.

But the decision to pursue both finance and law was entirely Sujesh's choices, because his father wanted him to do what made him happy.

It was a lesson Mr Subhas learnt in his own youth. His mother had "bundled" him off to India to study medicine. After three months, he returned to Singapore, homesick and disinterested.

And, till today, he is not interested in travel. Home is where his heart is, he said.

Now he spends his weekends dictating his second book - to his wife - going to the Holy Tree Temple where he is the chairman of the board of trustees, and spending time with his family.

The book, tentatively titled It's Easy To Cry, is about his legal and medical experiences. His first book was titled The Best I Could, about his colourful legal career.

Mr Subhas says he is not afraid of death because he believes he has done "more good than bad".

But the traumatic experience did bring some fresh perspective.

"I saw my wife, my son, my nephews holding my hand. I thought: 'I am so lucky to have these people with me.' I told myself that if I ever recover from this, I'd spend more time with them, in the last few years of my life.

"If I get a few years."

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Ktglfc

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Money or fame, for that matter, won't be able to buy the most priceless thing on earth, and thats your health !

 

Take care, and wish him enjoying his last years among his close friends and family.

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Celicar

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I hope he recovers soon too, but I'm a bit surprised that all those past scares didn't stop him from abusing his health earlier.

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Little_prince

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realli salute dis guy, do it pro brono somemore. at least give them a defence.

pro bono for all these high profile cases... win win situation for him.

 

win he hero. lose also no blame.

 

and it raises his profile to take on more lucrative cases

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DavidOh

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4UAYiQGRK4

 

Perhaps we also can look at another lawyer like M Ravi for the work he done...he also take on hopeless caseS..

 

 

Many professionals I do know thinks Ravi is a nut case and even call him names. To them, I ask, there are so many lawyers in Singapore, all claim to uphold the law of the land but where are they when needed.

 

To these people, I am sorry, but whatever short comings Ravi has, he has done more good for many Singaporeans who otherwise got no recourse because even the State would not want to help.

 

There are good people still in Singapore, we have to learn to treasure them and give them credit when due and encourage them to go on.

 

 

In this society, over the years, we are conditioned to value and worship $$$$, GDP and productivity. We are becoming such a soul-less society. We fight in the bus or MRT for a lousy seat. Many are push so far, that they become "mad", perhaps explain why people poo in MRT station. Good health young able people with young families committing suicide. Elite children writing in facebook asking elderly or jobless people to vaporise from the face of the earth.

 

The country goes on, like nothing has happened, we bring in F1 race for who, we bring in Casino for who and etc.

 

We need to do something otherwise we are going to let all our forefathers and our parents hardwork (blood and sweat) go to waste. We seriously need to start to take care of our people really and not think they are just a waste of resources and ask our old folks to go to JB.

 

How to do it? I don't know because if I knew I would not be typing this on a Wednesday evening.

 

As I type this, I am very sad deep down in my heart but is this what we want for children and for ourselves.

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RadX

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RIP


Veteran criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan has died, aged 67
PUBLISHED ON JAN 7, 2015 1:00 PM
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Criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan, 67, died in Singapore General Hospital on Wednesday morning. -- PHOTO: ST FILE

BY LIM YI HAN

SINGAPORE - Criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan, 67, died in Singapore General Hospital on Wednesday morning.

Senior lawyer Amolat Singh, a long-time friend of Mr Subhas, confirmed the news with The Straits Times.

He said: "Everybody is in utter disbelief. It's a very shocking piece of news, like a bolt out of the blue. He was out and about, always giving people encouragement. There was never a moment that we thought he was going so soon. He was always a fighter."

Mr Subhas had been in ill health, and he was diagnosed with heart and kidney failure last year. He had three heart attacks since 1978, lost one kidney to cancer in 2001, suffered diabetes and blocked intestines.

The prominent lawyer, a senior partner at RHTLaw Taylor Wessing and president of the Association of Criminal Lawyers in Singapore, had earned a reputation for defending notorious criminals, many a time pro bono.

He defended Anthony Ler, who hired a teenager to kill his wife in 2001; Took Leng How, a vegetable packer who befriended eight-year-old girl Huang Na, then killed her in 2004; and Leong Siew Chor, who chopped up a woman he killed in the Kallang body parts case.

Another client was ex-stewardess Constance Chee, who abducted her ex-lover's four-year-old daughter and caused her death after a fall from a flat in 2004.

In his career, he had taken on more than 2,500 cases since he was called to the Bar in 1971 after graduating from the then University of Singapore.

His second book, titled It's Easy To Cry, is due on the shelves later this year.

He leaves behind his wife, Vimala, 56, and son Sujesh, 24.

- See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/veteran-criminal-lawyer-subhas-anandan-has-died-aged-67-#sthash.SpTN0Otv.dpuf

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Kac

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"Every one deserves a fair trial."

 

I might not have always agreed with some of the shadier clients that you took up, but I respect you for standing up to your beliefs.

 

RIP. You will be missed in the legal fraternity.

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AhJason

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read his book The Best I Could before, there are some interesting tidbits in there worth a read!!

 

one example is how Subhas revealed that Francis Seow owed him $25,000 since the 80s and till now haven pay. Like a real chettiar!

 

http://unravelling1987.blogspot.sg/2013/08/subhas-anandan-best-i-could-chapter-27.html

 

Now it means that Francis Seow owe money to dead people. Francis Seow and his future descendents are going to "suay" liao. [laugh]

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