Experience

Attorney-General's Chambers, Singapore

• Singapore
• Legal Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Deputy Senior State Counsel (International Affairs Division)

  • Aug 2020 - Present



SG Courts

• Singapore
• Administration of Justice
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Assistant Registrar

  • Jan 2017 - Aug 2020

  Presided over interlocutory applications filed in the Singapore High Court and authored several judgments on novel issues in the law of privilege and civil procedure. Administered cases listed in the Singapore Court of Appeal and Singapore International Commercial Court. Assisted with law reform and drafted amendments to the Rules of Court and Practice Directions. Member of the Secretariat to the Professional Affairs Committee.

• Special Assistant to the Chief Justice

  • Feb 2018 - Aug 2019

  Assisted the Chief Justice with the preparation of lectures, speeches, book chapters, and papers on a range of subjects; participated as observer in projects and committees on behalf of the Chief Justice; assisted the Chief Justice with his Honour's leadership of the Presidential Council of Minority Rights, Singapore Academy of Law, ASEAN Law Association, and the Council of ASEAN Chief Justices. Staffed his Honor during official visits and meetings as aide-de-camp.

• Senior Justices' Law Clerk

  • Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

  Assisted judges of appeal with management of justices’ law clerk programme.

• Justices' Law Clerk

  • Jan 2015 - Dec 2016

  Clerked for Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, all the members of the Court of Appeal, and four judges of the Singapore High Court. Prepared research notes, detailed bench memoranda, drafted headnotes for law reports, digests of cases for publication, and composed speeches and papers.



Attorney-General's Chambers, Singapore

• Singapore
• Legal Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Deputy Public Prosecutor

  • Jan 2014 - Dec 2014

  Represented the State in criminal proceedings and rendered legal advice on criminal matters to various Government agencies. Member of a team that successfully defended the constitutionality of a provision of the Criminal Procedure Code and presented oral arguments at the hearing before the Court of Appeal. Represented the State in criminal proceedings and rendered legal advice on criminal matters to various Government agencies. Member of a team that successfully defended the constitutionality of a provision of the Criminal Procedure Code and presented oral arguments at the hearing before the Court of Appeal.