“ … Ravi’s initiative in challenging the legality of the death penalty led to a temporary moratorium on hangings in Singapore for about a year… Ravi’s impact as a cause lawyer has undoubtedly had some effect on the way the Singapore government has approached death penalty cases. … Ravi has made it possible for unpopular and unusual causes to have their day in court… the visibility and presence of Ravi as a cause lawyer, the exception to the Singapore general rule, in some way created the conditions of possibility for other lawyers to step up and play the role of cause lawyer. … It may well be that Ravi is the only lawyer in Singapore who can, at the present time, justifiable lay claim to being called a cause lawyer. …Ravi is a striking expression of an exception that holds the promise of a shift away from the general rule of the masked and absent Singapore cause lawyer”