A VETERAN lawyer has failed in his appeal against his conviction for helping a Housing Board flat owner make a false claim in court five years ago.

However, Bachoo Mohan Singh, a lawyer for more than 30 years, did have his three-month jail term reduced to one month by the High Court and was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine.

Singh was found guilty in the lower court in 2007 of helping to file a claim which stated that the five-room Redhill flat was to be sold for an inflated price of $490,000 in April 2004.

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