SINGAPORE, Aug. 9 -- A lawyer fined for criminally defaming Singapore's KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) over a false miscarriage story has been approved for admission to the Singapore Bar.

Singapore-based media organisation CNA reported yesterday that Ariffin Iskandar Sha Ali Akbar, 28, who published the fabricated story on the Wake Up Singapore website in 2022, was fined S$8,000 (RM26,400) last year.

Despite objections from the Singapore attorney general and the Singapore Institute of Legal Education, Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon ruled that Ariffin remained fit to practise law.

The Chief Justice noted Ariffin's cooperation, remorse, and efforts to retract the story and apologise to KKH, adding that the offence stemmed from n...