THE MISSION TO MAKE LAW ACCESSIBLE TO ALL
1. What is LawGuide Singapore?
LawGuide Singapore is a free legal information and content portal that
educates and empowers consumers by making basic law-related
information easier to find, understand and use – through our website,
social media channels and Singapore’s first law-related chatbot.
JONATHAN
WONG
•
Jonathan is a Partner in
Tito Isaac & Co LLP, a
homegrown Singapore
Law Practice that he has
been with since 2011.
• He graduated from the
University of Bristol and
was called to the Bar of
England and Wales (Gray’s
Inn)
• He has worked as a
Prosecutor in the
Attorney-General’s
Chambers and the
Ministry of Manpower
prior to entering private
practice.
Today, we are Singapore’s fastest-growing and most-followed online legal
information portal and platform in terms of social media reach and
engagement. With more than 27,000 Facebook followers and more than
10,000 monthly unique website visitors, LawGuide Singapore reaches an
average of about 100,000 people who are looking for legal information and
answers to law-related questions every week.
2. Tell us about the history of LawGuide Singapore and your
motivation for creating it?
From my experiences gained from 15 years of working in the legal industry,
I've come to realise that access to information ultimately leads to and is
essential for access to justice, and it's something that I'm now committed to
fulfilling in both my personal and professional life.
I've also become acutely aware that access to justice doesn’t and shouldn’t
just mean improving consumers’ access to lawyers or making legal services
more affordable.
I saw that people need basic answers before they engage a lawyer, even
from the outset of deciding whether they need one, so I decided to help
them by taking complex, and often confusing, information on commonly-
encountered legal issues and present them in short, simple pieces delivered
in rich media form - such as animations, videos and infographics - through
our website and social media channels which is where everyone’s attention
is focused on in a digital first and mobile first economy.
This is why with LawGuide Singapore, my team and I are on a small,
personal mission to educate and empower consumers by making
information on basic, but essential, areas of Singapore law easier for the
public to find, understand and use – we believe that this can help provide
even greater access to justice.