ADVOCATE & SOLICITOR - SINGAPORE
Thirty years in infrastructure, construction
& engineering law.
I am a Senior Accredited Adjudicator at the Singapore Mediation
Centre and a Panel Arbitrator with SIAC and AIAC, with over
30 years’ experience acting as adjudicator, arbitrator and
counsel in Singapore’s construction and infrastructure
disputes.
30+ years in practice
Panel Arbitrator. SIAC & AIAC
Senior Accredited Adjudicator, SMC
50+ adjudication determination since 2009
9+ arbitrations as sole arbitrator
CAREER TIMELINE
Three decades, milestone by milestone
CREDENTIALS
Qualifications &
appointments
Beyond practice, I’ve contributed as author – including to Chow Kok Fong’s Law and Practice of Construction Contracts in Singapore – and was a trainer at BCA Academy from 2022 to 2025 for a course on the Public Sector Standard Conditions of Contract.
LLB (Hons)
National University of Singapore
Senior Accredited Adjudicator
Singapore Mediation Centre
Panel Arbitrator
SIAC – AIAC – SIArb
Member
CIArb
Member
Society of Construction Law Singapore
Assesor
Covid-19 (Temporary Protection Measures) Act, 2021
ACHIEVEMENTS & TRACK RECORD
Selected adjudications, arbitrations &
reported cases.
ADJUDICATION
since 2009
2010 –
Appointed by the Singapore Mediation Centre as adjudicator in over eighty adjudication applications as sole adjudicator and, over ten adjudication reviews as panel adjudicator.
SOPA Adjudications
2006 –
Acted as counsel in adjudication applications and adjudication review applications on behalf of claimants and respondents.
SOPA Adjudications
ARBITRATION
2010 –
Sole arbitrator in ad hoc and SIAC arbitrations, including disputes between foreign and local contractors arising from various types of construction projects.
Arbitrations
Various
Acted as counsel in numerous domestic and international arbitrations.
Arbitrations
COURT
Selected reported cases
2021
A case dealing with non-payments and a contractor’s common law entitlement to terminate the contract.
DSL v Triumph Electrical
[2021] SGHC 221
2007
First reported judgment on the setting aside of an adjudication determination.
Tiong Seng v Chuan Lim
[2007] 4 SLR (R ) 364
2007
A landmark judgement which established the test for negligence in Singapore.
Spandeck Engineering v. DSTA
[2007] 4 SLR (R ) 100
PUBLICATIONS & TEACHING
2026
Co-Authored “When Does Time Begin To run” on adjudication application timing.
[2026] SAL Prac 25
2022 – 2025
Trainer at BCA Academy for “Understanding And Applying the Public Sector Standard Conditions of Contract.”
BCA Academy
2018
Contributed to the 5th edition of a leading construction law text.
Chow Kok Fong,
Construction Law Singapore 5th Ed
Focus areas
Where my experience concentrates.
Contract drafting & review
SOPA Adjudication
Arbitration – Sole Arbitrator
Arbitration – Counsel
Court – litigation
Delay & disruption claims
SIA Conditions
PSSCOC
FIDIC Contracts
Teaching & speaking
Published in 2026
Co-authored a practitioner’s note on adjudication application timing under SOPA, published in the Singapore Academy of Law Practitioner series.
CONTACT
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