Adjudicators

Last Updated: 28/11/2007

FIDReC’s Adjudicators comprises of highly qualified and credible professionals with relevant experience and expertise. All FIDReC Adjudicators are required to go through a stringent selection process before they are appointed.

The Adjudicators are independent and impartial. They are not employees, agents or independent contractors of FIDReC.

FIDReC does not interfere with the decisions of the Adjudicators. The Adjudicators act wholly in their own private capacity and adjudicates cases based on the facts and merits of each case.

Among FIDReC’s Adjudicators are judges, senior counsel, lawyers and retired industry professionals.

Mr Govindarajalu Asokan

Mr Govind Asokan is a Partner with Rodyk & Davidson LLP’s Litigation Practice and heads the firm’s Shipping Practice. His areas of practice include commercial and shipping litigation, arbitration, insurance, tax, banking, domestic and international business transactions as well as employment law. His area of specialty is in maritime law and his practice includes registration, financing and flagging, litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Widely regarded as a leader in Admiralty and Shipping Law, Mr Govind has published numerous papers on diverse topics from marine insurance fraud to tax benefits of Singapore-registered vessels.

Mr Govind is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SlArb), and a Member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Main Panel of Arbitrators, of the U.K. Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board, the SIAC’s Maritime Advisory Committee, the Singapore Shipping Association (SSA)’s Legal Committee, the Maritime Law Association of Singapore and appointed by The Honourable The Chief Justice as member of the Inquiry Panel pursuant to section 84(1) of the Legal Profession Act (Chapter 161) for a term of two years with effect from 1.12.05.

Mr Govind has been in practice for over 26 years and holds an LLM with Distinctions in Carriage of Goods by Sea and Admiralty Law from the University of Southampton in 1985. He was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1979 and is also a Solicitor of England & Wales as of 2003. He is the main co-author of Halsbury’s Law of Singapore on Employment Law (Vol. 9) and co-author of Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore on Shipping Law (Vol. 17(2)).

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Mr Leslie Chew Kwee Hoe, SC

Leslie Chew is Senior Counsel (Singapore’s version of the Queen’s Counsel) and a partner of Gurbani & Co, a boutique litigation practice well-known for both admiralty and commercial litigation.

He is experienced in all types of commercial litigation and, apart from appearing in court, has acted in many international commercial arbitrations both as counsel and as arbitrator. Some of his more notable cases include acting for the Japanese subsidiary of Barings in the Singapore portion of the case dealing with the collapse of Barings, and acting as counsel in an international commercial arbitration in a dispute valued over US$200 million.

He contributes regularly to legal and other professional journals, both in Singapore and abroad. His most recent publication is the Singapore Arbitration Handbook published by LexisNexis Butterworths in 2003 and the Essentials of Medical Law (multiple authors) published by Sweet & Maxwell in 2004. He is a fellow of both the Chartered and Singapore Institutes of Arbitration. He is panel member of several Asian arbitration centres as well as Australia and New Zealand. He is also a member of numerous government committees and tribunals. Leslie also sits in the Law Reform Committee of the Singapore Academy of Law.

Leslie was called to the bar in Singapore in 1981 and was appointed senior counsel in 2000.

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Mr Chew Loy Kiat

Mr. Chew Loy Kiat is a Chartered Insurer, an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, UK, a Honorary Fellow of the Singapore Insurance Institute and a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Directors. He has with him forty six years working experience in the Singapore insurance industry. He retired from his career in 1998. He was the founder-chairman of the Motor Insurers’ Bureau from 1975 to 1999 and was awarded the PBM (Public Service Medal) by the government for this service.

In his long career, Mr Chew also served in a number of insurance related bodies, viz; as, President of General Insurance Association of Singapore, Chairman ASEAN Insurance Council, President, East Asian Insurance Congress, President, Singapore Insurance Institute, Member, Board of Directors of U.S-based International Insurance Society and Elector, Insurance Hall of Fame.

He is currently the Vice-Chairman of the Singapore College of Insurance, a position held since 1975. He is a member of the Complaints and Disciplinary Panel of the Public Accountants Board.

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Mr William Edward Jansen

Mr William Edward Jansen is an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore having graduated from the University of Singapore with a LLB (Hons) in 1971. He is presently a Partner in Jansen, Menon & Lee and is also a Notary Public and Commissioner for Oaths.

Mr Jansen has specialized in the last 35 years in litigation and commercial practice with emphasis on areas of contract, sale of goods, insurance, admiralty, banking and building contract work.

Mr Jansen attended the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators Course on Arbitration Law & Practice in 1992 and is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. Mr Jansen has now been appointed to their Panel of Arbitrators. Between 1991 and 1992, he was a Law Society Council Member and was a Member of the House and Social Committee of the Academy of Law in 1994. Between 1992 and 1996, he served two terms as the Honorary Secretary of the Eurasian Association. He is currently the Chairman of the Legal Advisory Panel of the Eurasian Association.

Mr Jansen completed a Mediation Workshop conducted by the Singapore Mediation Centre(SMC) in 2001 and has acted as Mediator/Arbitrator appointed by the Law Society of Singapore in arbitration and costs disputes. Mr Jansen is now a Member of the Law Society’s Panel of Arbitrators under the Law Society Arbitration Scheme.

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Mr Kau Jee Chu

Mr Kau Jee Chu is an accountant by profession with varied experience in accounting and general management. He started his career in auditing and accounting and was the Regional Accountant of a UK statutory body before he took on the general management jobs in the manufacturing, finance and securities sectors.

Mr Kau was the General Manager of Federal Chemical Industries (Far East) Pte Ltd, General Manager of Singapura Building Society Ltd (now known as Singapura Finance Ltd) and CEO of Overseas Union Trust Ltd., a subsidiary finance company of Overseas Union Bank Ltd. While with the bank, he concurrently held the position of Chairman of its wholly owned securities firm, OUB Securities Pte Ltd and also served as a director of a number of bank related companies including a factoring company and a hotel establishment. Mr Kau was the Chairman of Finance Houses Association of Singapore and a member of The Institute of Banking and Finance. He retired in 2002 and currently sits on the board of a number of publicly listed companies in Singapore.

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Mr Kuo How Nam

Mr Kuo How Nam has over 30 years of banking experience in Singapore, firstly with The Development Bank of Singapore and then Overseas Union Bank(OUB). During his banking career, he has been involved in corporate and consumer banking as well as banking operations such as bills, treasury, credit administration and settlement activities. He has held various directorships in the stock broking, insurance, finance and other affiliates of the OUB Group. He took an early retirement in 2000 as the Executive Vice President of Operations of OUB. After retirement, he worked as a banking consultant and was adviser to Greendot Payment Services until May 2005.

Mr Kuo is currently the President of Credit Counselling Singapore which is a non profit organisation. In April 2006, he was appointed to the Board of Commissioners of PT Bank Internasional Indonesia.

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Mr Law Song Keng

An Actuary by training, Mr Law started his working career with the Ministry of Finance. He was involved with the insurance industry for more than 20 years. Serving as the Insurance Commissioner for Singapore from 1980 to 1992, he was concurrently appointed as Deputy Managing Director( Insurance & Administration) in the Monetary Authority of Singapore from 1989 to 1992. He subsequently joined the Overseas Assurance Corporation Ltd as MD & CEO and retired in 2003. He is currently serving on The Central Provident Fund Board and the Boards of the Inland Revenue Authority, China Life Reinsurance Company and Singapore Deposit Insurance Corporation. He is also currently serving as an independent director on the board of Manulife (Singapore) Pte Ltd.

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Mr Lee Kiat Seng

Associate Professor Lee Kiat Seng is a partner at Messrs Wee Swee Teow & Co. He concurrently holds the position of an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. Prior to leaving his career as a full-time academic with NUS, Assoc Prof Lee taught the Law of Insurance for more than 10 years. He developed the course on the Law of Marine Insurance for the Faculty of Law, NUS, which he currently co-teaches. He also conducts the course on Reinsurance Law, which was developed with Professor Robert Merkin. Assoc Prof Lee has contributed many articles on insurance law. He has also served as the contributing editor for “Insurance Law” in the Annual Review of Singapore Cases published by the Singapore Academy of Law since the first issue in 2001.

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Mr Leong Teck Kut

Mr Leong Teck Kut began his insurance career with the Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited in 1955. He qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1963. In 1970, he joined the Insurance Corporation of Singapore Limited as General Manager and Actuary. He has since retired in 1998. He also served for a time as Actuary to the Central Provident Fund Board when the Board introduced the Home Protection Insurance Scheme for those of its members who bought their Housing Board flats on loans and also as Consultant to the Insurance Department of the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

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Mr Naresh Mahtani

Mr Naresh Mahtani has been in legal practice for over 25 years. He is a lawyer with local, regional and international experience in commercial transactions, construction, engineering and infrastructure projects work, oil and gas construction projects, dispute resolution and related areas of law.

He is currently practising as a Consultant at the firm of Alban Tay Mahtani & de Silva (“ATMD”).

Mr Mahtani has been appointed as Arbitrator and Arbitration Counsel in major construction and international arbitrations involving construction and commercial disputes in the building & construction industry and oil & gas industry in Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia and United States of America.

Amongst other qualifications, he is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, on the Regional Panel of Arbitrators of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC); on the Disputes & Compensation Resolution Panel of Singapore Wholesale Electricity Market. He is currently Chairman of the Society of Construction Law, Singapore and a Council Member of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. He is an accredited Adjudicator with the Singapore Mediation Centre. His former appointments include his appointment as Chief Executive Officer of the Law Society of Singapore in 1999 to 2001.

Mr Mahtani has written and presented articles and papers on subjects concerning contracts, dispute resolution, construction law and the legal profession, in regional journals as well as international conferences on these subject.

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Mr Ng Wee Jin

Mr Ng Wee Jin is the Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Industry Disputes Resolution Centre Ltd(FIDReC) and was formerly the General Manager of the Insurance Disputes Resolution Organisation(IDRO). Prior to his appointment at IDRO, he practised as a litigation lawyer with the law firm Messrs Lee & Lee, specialising in commercial litigation including the Law of Insurance, the Law of Banking and Revenue Law. He was also involved in several cases of mergers and integration. His legal training and background is further enhanced by extensive experience in mediation, arbitration and other ADR(Alternative Dispute Resolution) processes.

An Honours Law graduate of the National University of Singapore, Mr Ng is a two time recipient of the Allen & Gledhill Scholarship and was also awarded the Kwa Geok Choo Scholarship. He is also the recipient of the Harvard Club of Singapore Book Prize for Most Outstanding first year student in Law, the Blackstone Prize, the Shook Lin & Bok Prize as well as the Law Society of Singapore Book Prizes for two years. Mr Ng is a member of the Ministry of Law’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Committee. He was also a member of the Resource Panel for Alternative Dispute Resolution.

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Mr Balachandran s/o Ponnampalam

Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of Singapore (1976), Program of Instructions for Lawyers, Harvard Law School and Masters of Law, National University of Singapore (1992).

Mr P Balachandran is the Vice Chairman and Director of Robert Wong & Woo LLC. He was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1978 and had attended various arbitration courses including that conducted by The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK). He was made a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK and also the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. Mr P Balachandran is active in alternate dispute resolution as a legal counsel, as an arbitrator on the regional panel of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre(SIAC) and on the Panel of Arbitrators of the Law Society of Singapore Arbitration Scheme and as a mediator on costs for the Law Society of Singapore. He also sits on the Compensation Fund Committee of the Law Society of Singapore.

He is a Notary Public and is the Hon Legal Advisor of the Singapore infocomm Technology Federation which is the voice of the ICT industry in Singapore.

Mr P Balachandran has a cross-border legal practice encompassing commercial and financial transactions, insurance, technology, construction and engineering (including large developments and infrastructure projects) and litigation. He has worked in London and Hong Kong with an English City Firm.

In connection with his work, he sits on the board of companies set up in Singapore mainly by American and European companies.

He has commercial experience having worked in the Finance Department of Singapore Airlines and having run a multi-national travel company as its General Manager prior to practicing law.

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Mr Jaya Prakash

Mr Jaya Prakash graduated from the University of Singapore with the degree of Bachelor of Laws (Honours) in 1974. He was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in January 1975. He was in active legal practice until 1998 when he took on his present responsibility as the Managing Director of Pandisea Pte Ltd (exclusive correspondents to The Brittania Steam Ship Insurance Association Limited).

Mr Prakash is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is a Member of the Regional Panel of Arbitrators of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre(SIAC), and accredited Arbitrator to the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration, the Regional Centre for Arbitration Kuala Lumpur, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry Arbitration & Conciliation Tribunal, Dubai International Arbitration Centre, Asia-Pacific Regional Grouping, Pacific International Arbitration Center and The Mauritius Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Mr Prakash is also an accredited mediator to the Singapore Mediation Centre(SMC).

Mr Prakash is a member of the Ethics Committee of the Law Society of Singapore, a member of the Appeals Panel of the Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore on the Accreditation of Bunker Suppliers, a member of the Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee of the Law Society of Singapore and a member of the following Committees of the Singapore Shipping Association:

(i) Legal Committee
(ii) Services Committee
(iii) Marine Insurance Sub-Committee

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Mr Seow Nee Shek

Mr Seow Nee Shek is a 37-year veteran in general insurance industry in Singapore and other countries. He is a Chartered Insurer and gained his MBA from Hull University, U.K. He retired from the role of the Principal Officer (General Manager/Director) of The Nanyang Insurance Company Limited in March 2001 to spend more time with his wife and on golf and travel.

Mr. Seow was the President of General Insurance Association of Singapore in 2000/01 and the Insurance Institute of Singapore in 1974/75. Over the years, he had also served in various industry committees which includes the Board of Governors of the Singapore Insurance Training Centre (now known as The Singapore College of Insurance). He was also a member of the National Crime Prevention Council and the National Fire Prevention Council in 2000/01.

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Judge Adrian Soon Kim Kwee JP

Judge Adrian Soon Kim Kwee graduated from the University of Singapore in 1968 with the degree of LLB (Hons). He is an Advocate & Solicitor. In Aug 1968, he was enlisted for full-time National Service. He successfully underwent training in the Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute (SAFTI) and was commissioned as an Officer in 1969. Upon completion of his 3 years full-time NS, he joined the Singapore Legal Service in 1971. He was appointed a Deputy Public Prosecutor and State Counsel. In 1972, he was appointed a Magistrate of the Subordinate Courts. From 1974 to 1976, he was seconded to the Singapore Armed Forces as Permanent President, General Courts Martial where he held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. From May 1976, he was appointed a District Judge and held this position until his retirement on 4 March 2005. As a DJ, he had presided in the Criminal Division, the Civil Division, and the Family Court. While in the Criminal Division, he was a Group Manager in charge of a cluster of judicial officers. He was a Settlement District Judge in the Primary Dispute Resolution Centre of the Subordinate Courts from May 2003 to 2005.

After his retirement, Judge Soon was appointed a member of the Goods and Services Tax Board of Review. He also holds the appointment of Deputy Registrar of Marriage/Licensed Solemniser. On 15 Jan 2007, Judge Soon was appointed as a District Judge to preside over ad hoc cases. On 12 May 2008, he was appointed as Justice of the Peace.

As the Chief Executive, JUSTNET (the Subordinate Courts’ Computerisation Programme), Judge Soon spearheaded the computerization of the courts from 1993 to 1996 transforming the Subordinate Courts to become a leading world-class exponent of Court Technology. He had also held the post of Chairman of the Hotels Licensing Board, Deputy Chairman, Tenant Compensation Board and Assistant Commissioner, SAF Requisition of Resources Compensation Board.

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Mr Tang Seng Foon

Mr. Tang is currently a Business Consultant at Scanwell Associates Pte. Ltd. A Chartered Insurer and a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute of U.K., his insurance career spans over 40 years during which he has held several senior executive positions in local and foreign insurance companies and headed a tripartite joint venture general insurance company in Vietnam. Prior to his retirement, Mr. Tang was the Asst. General Manager of Asia Insurance taking charge of general administration and business development.

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Dr Toh See Kiat

Dr Toh See Kiat has a Bachelor of Laws (Honours, NUS), Master of Laws (Harvard) and a PhD in Law (London). He is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, a Solicitor of England and Wales, Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Directors, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK) and Senior Member of the Singapore Computer Society.

He is a Chairman of Goodwins Law Corporation. Besides being an accredited mediator of the Singapore Mediation Centre, Dr Toh practices and conducts seminars on information technology, intellectual property, competition, commercial and corporate law. Dr Toh is also an adjudicator on the panel of Financial Industry Disputes Resolution Centre Ltd. Dr Toh has also advised government agencies in Singapore, Bahrain, Dubai and Abu Dhabi on law of reform and drafted legislation for Abu Dhabi and Dubai and also for Vietnam as an Asian Development Bank Consultant.

Dr Toh is the author of Paperless International Trade Law of Telematic Date Interchange (Butterworths Asia, 1992) and co-editor of Legal Aspects of Doing Business in Singapore (Addison-Wesley, 1996).

Dr Toh is a former Singapore Member of Parliament and President of the Consumers’ Association of Singapore (1995-2000). He wears many hats in public service, including being presently a member of the Board of Governors of Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore; member of the National Trust Council, and the Singapore EDIFACT Committee; and an expert on the DocDex Panel (documentary credit disputes) of the International Chamber of Commerce. He is also Honorary Legal Advisor of the Information Technology Management Association (Singapore) and the Singapore Computer Society.

Dr Toh is also a founder and Chairman of CommerceNet Singapore (part of a global consortium of eBusiness companies) since its inception in 1998.

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Mr Adam Wong Kong Khiong 

Mr Adam Wong is currently the Executive Director of Mayvest Asia Pte Ltd (a training, coaching and consulting company) and Alcyon Creations Pte Ltd. Prior to his current appointment, he was a General Manager with the Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore and Hong Kong.

In his 22 years of banking experience, Mr Wong also held other senior management roles such as Head (Cash Management, Ecommerce and Trade Sales) in DBS Bank, Director (Corporate Banking & Finance) in American Express Bank and Director of a joint venture bank in Indonesia. 

Having strong strategic orientation and regional exposure in South East Asia and Hong Kong, Mr Wong is credited with significantly growing global banks’ SME assets by 450% over a 3-year period in Singapore. He also started a new cash management business for a regional bank and grew it to a USD35 billion business annually.

Graduated in Accountancy, Mr Wong is a Fellow Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Professional Trainer, a Certified Credit Risk Management Professional and a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors.

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Mr Robert Wong Kwan Seng

Mr Robert Wong is a lawyer by profession.

He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1983 and was called to the bar in 1984.

He had always practiced law in various law firms, except for a short stint as an in-house counsel with a public listed company. He is currently the director in charge of the corporate department of Straits Law Practice LLC.

Mr Wong practices mainly corporate law with particular emphasis in corporate finance. He has acted as solicitor in numerous initial public offers, rights issue, issue of debentures, takeovers, mergers and acquisition and joint ventures.

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Mr David Yeow

Mr David Yeow is a member of the Executive Committee of the law firm, Rajah & Tann. He also heads its Derivatives and Financial Services Regulatory. His practical experience and keen interest is in the areas of banking, securities and derivatives law as well as general corporate law.

Mr Yeow is a Member of the Disciplinary Committee of Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading Limited (formerly Singapore International Monetary Exchange Limited), a Member of the Rules Committee of Singapore Commodity Exchange Limited, and a Member of the SGX-DT/SIAC Arbitration Committee.

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Mr Jimmy Yim Wing Kuen, SC

Mr. Jimmy Yim is the Managing Director of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department at Drew & Napier LLC, a leading legal practice in Singapore established since 1889. He is one of the earliest batches of Senior Counsel appointed in January 1998. He is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and a regional arbitrator with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre(SIAC). He is a Member of the Competition Appeal Board appointed by the Minister for Trade & Industry. He is recommended by name in the various editions of Asia Pacific Legal 500 in the area of Dispute Resolution and listed by name in some editions of Asia Law Profiles as part of Drew & Napier’s ‘powerful and effective litigation team’. He was a Member of the Law Reform Committee at the Singapore Academy of Law for 6 years and presently, a statutory appointed Council member of the Law Society of Singapore.

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Mr Matthew Saw Seang Kuan

Mr. Matthew is a Partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution department of Lee & Lee.

Matthew graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1995, and was admitted to the English bar in 1996. He was admitted to the Singapore bar in 1997 and joined Lee & Lee as an Associate in 1998. In 2002, he was seconded for 5 months to the International Commercial Fraud and Insolvency Litigation group of Lovells, London. In 2004, Matthew was admitted to the New York state bar. In 2005, he was made a Partner.

Matthew practices civil litigation including disputes pertaining to en bloc sales, commercial matters, estates, partnerships, companies, personal injury claims and the sale of goods.

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Mr Lakshmikanth Rao Penna

Mr Lakshmikanth Rao Penna holds a Master of Law from the Stanford Law School and Osmania University and he is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and an Advocate of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, India. He is also a member of the Government of Singapore Income Tax Board of Review.

Mr Lakshmikanth is currently a consultant with Lee & Lee, Advocates & Solicitors of Singapore since 2003.

During 1984 and 2005, Penna had taught at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS), and introduced five new subjects. Before joining NUS, he was the Professor of Law and Principal of the University College of Law, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.

Mr Lakshmikanth was in the Government of Singapore Business Mission to India in 2003 led by the then Prime Minister Mr. Goh Chok Tong. He was a member of the Government of India Delegation, headed by the present Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, to the Second United Nations World Conference on Human Rights, 1993, and its preparatory meetings.

He is involved in international commercial arbitrations and had briefed the Islamic Republic of Iran in a claim before the Iran-US Claims Tribunal, The Hague, The Netherlands. His specialisations include Islamic Law of Banking and Finance.

He was a Gastwissenchaftler (Guest Scholar) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany: a Visiting Professor at the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC: and twice a visiting scholar at the Stanford Law School.

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Mr Lau Wah Ming

Mr Lau is currently an advisor with Central Chambers Law Corporation, working on projects concerning the provision of agreed legal services to government agencies and statutory bodies. He is a Principal Mediator accredited with the Singapore Mediation Centre and conducts mediation sessions regularly.

He is a systems engineer by training and practice, having graduated from Christchurch, New Zealand with an engineering degree under a Colombo Plan Scholarship in 1969, and obtained a Master in Business Administration degree thereafter. He had served, as a senior administrative officer, in the public sector for more than 35 years prior to retirement. He has broad experience in economic development, finance, human resource management, transport and land planning, infocommunications, and the development of legal policy and legal services industry. From 1995 to 2005 he was the Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Law and, among other responsibilities, was actively involved in setting up the legal, regulatory and administrative systems for developing and promoting international arbitration, alternative dispute resolution and mediation. He was then also in charge of setting up the Community Mediation Centres. He retired in 2009 from his last appointment as the Cabinet Secretary and currently does consultancy work and also voluntary welfare work with a home for the intellectually disabled.

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