How Three SMU Students Turned an Internship Insight into an Award-Winning Legal Aid Idea

Published on 26 August 2026
SMU Winning Team at the Ministry of Law Ideation Challenge at the SGLaw200 Youth Forum
SMU Winning Team at the Ministry of Law Ideation Challenge at the SGLaw200 Youth Forum

While interning at the Ministry of Law, Nicole Poon (Accountancy student), Toh Yue Tai (Accountancy student) and Ong Jun Quan (Law student) noticed that many people were navigating complex legal processes without a lawyer. Drawing on their backgrounds in Law and Accountancy, they turned that insight into LegalSave, an award-winning proposal to support Singapore’s underserved “legal middle”.

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