Full service details, fees and document exclusions are set out on our main page: sign documents with Singpass.
LEO Sign is live. Clients of Loh Eben Ong LLP can now sign and endorse documents with their Singpass identity on law.com.sg. The service has entered soft launch, and there is no charge to clients for signing.
The firm is a Singapore law practice and Notary Public, and LEO Sign was built for its own matters rather than licensed in from a third party. A client receives an emailed link, reviews the document on law.com.sg, and approves it in the Singpass app. There is no account to create, no password, and nothing to install. It takes about two minutes.
Why a law firm built its own signing service
Digital signing is not new to Singapore practice. The courts have run it through eLitigation for years, and the reasoning carries over: a signature bound to a verified identity is worth considerably more than a scanned squiggle on a PDF. What the firm wanted to avoid was sending clients into a third party platform, with another account to create, in order to sign a document for their own lawyer.
The notarial use case
The clearest application is ahead of notarisation. Forged and altered documents are a live problem and they are becoming better looking. Where a document is heading for the Notary Public, the firm can now ask the client to endorse it with Singpass first, which ties the document to a verified identity at a recorded moment in time. Where a matter calls for it, a document can be locked to a single NRIC or FIN, so nobody else can endorse it even if they hold the link. Our help centre explains Singpass endorsement before notarisation in practice.
This supports the notarial act rather than replacing any part of it. Clients who are required to appear in person, or to produce originals or identification, still will. What changes is the level of confidence on both sides before the appointment begins.
What is not changing
Paper is not going anywhere. Some instruments still require wet ink because the Electronic Transactions Act 2010 excludes them, wills and conveyances of immovable property among them. Where a document falls into that group, we will say so plainly. Clients who simply prefer to sign on paper may continue to do so.
Soft launch, and how to take part
For the first months the service runs in soft launch, with a limited number of clients and on documents where a paper alternative is always available. That is deliberate: we would rather find the rough edges on our own matters than on yours. Signing is free to clients, and the notarial fee for any document you bring in is unchanged and set out in our Singapore Notary Public fee guide.
If you have a matter with us and would like to be among the first to use it, tell your usual contact at the firm or write to info@law.com.sg. You can also start a request yourself at law.com.sg/sign.
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For the full explanation of how LEO Sign works, multiple signatories, retention of documents, validity of electronic signatures in Singapore and the answers to common questions, see our main page on signing documents with Singpass. Related: our Singapore Notary Public service, the notary public checklist, notary public fees, and the LEO Sign terms of use.