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By Andrew Loh
"Recently there were a lot of concerns expressed [about] my medical condition or my mental state of being. I wish to thank my friends [and] Singaporeans as well as friends overseas for being concerned about what has been happening to me," lawyer M Ravi tells this writer on Friday at his office at Battery Road.
"I must acknowledge that I was under a lot of pressure," he explains. This was also why he voluntarily checked himself into Mount Elizabeth hospital earlier in the week, to seek a second opinion on his condition.
Ravi has been handling several high-profile cases in the last few months, including the by-election case by Hougang resident Vellama Marie Muthu seeking the court to decide on the prime minister's discretionary powers in calling by-elections; opposition politician Kenneth Jeyaretnam's case calling on the courts to impose an injunction on the Singapore Government providing loans to the International Monetary Fund (IMF); and the fate of those on death row following the Government's proposed changes to the death penalty laws.
"Of course I take great happiness and great solace in fighting for the rights of our people," M Ravi says. However, he says he also has to be "practical" in how he is able to take up pro bono cases. He explains that his corporate work enables him to do this but that he must strike a balance between the two. It was only recently, he says, that he took stock of these. To alleviate the stress from his heavy workload, he practises dance, something which he has loved all his life, doing yoga, writing and just being with friends.
Read the full report and video on Yahoo Singapore: "I was under a lot of pressure".
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