Part A

1.

Criminal Law

Judge Wong Li Tein
District Judge, State Courts of Singapore

Judge Wong Li Tein was appointed District Judge and Deputy Registrar of the Republic of Singapore in 2009. She has served as a Deputy Public Prosecutor and State Counsel in the Attorney-General’s Chambers, the Head of Legal Industry and Regulations in the Ministry of Law, Assistant Registrar in the Supreme Court and Deputy Chief Executive of the Singapore Academy of Law. She is currently also the Executive Director of the State Courts Training Office and a referee of the Singapore Industrial Arbitration Court.

2.

Evidence Law

Mr Dennis Saw
Senior Associate, Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Dennis is a Senior Associate in the Shipping and International Trade department at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP. He has acted in contentious and non-contentious matters for (amongst others) banks, financial institutions, trading houses, multi-national corporations, government institutions, P&I clubs, and shipowners. Dennis has appeared before the Singapore courts (including the Court of Appeal) and in arbitrations under the SIAC, SCMA, ICC, and UNCITRAL rules.

3.

Land Law

Mr Afzal Ali
Partner, Allen & Gledhill

Afzal’s main areas of practice include commercial litigation and international arbitration.

Afzal has represented clients over a wide array of commercial and corporate disputes including high-net worth banking disputes, shareholder and joint ventures disputes, trust disputes, employment disputes and libel claims. He has also represented clients in intellectual property disputes and IT related disputes. He has acted for statutory boards, public healthcare institutions and large corporates, including banks. He has appeared as lead counsel both in High Court (General and Appellate Division) and the Court of Appeal of Singapore.

Afzal graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LL.B. (First Class) in 2014. He won many academic prizes including Contact Law, Tort Law, Company Law and Equity & Trusts. Afzal graduated from New York University with an LL.M. in 2014, having pursued an LL. B. and LL.M. concurrently.

Azal has been a facilitator at the Singapore Institute of Legal Education for Land Law since 2016.

4.

Singapore Legal System

Assistant Professor Rachel Phang
SMU Yong Pung How School of Law

Rachel is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University (SMU). Her research interests are in the areas of financial law and regulation, contract law and tort law.

Rachel received an LLB from the National University of Singapore in 2016, and an LLM from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2021. She was admitted as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore in 2017.

Prior to joining SMU, Rachel was a researcher at the National University of Singapore’s Centre for Banking & Finance Law. Rachel also previously practised as a lawyer in Singapore from 2017 to 2020. Her experience in legal practice focused on financial services regulation, and covered legal and regulatory issues relating to banking, capital markets, payment services, insurance and fintech.

Assistant Professor Aaron Yoong
SMU Yong Pung How School of Law

Assistant Professor Aaron Yoong lectures at the SMU Yong Pung How School of Law, specialising in the law of torts and International law. His research has been published in leading journals including the Arbitration Journal, Tort Law Review and the Torts Law Journal. He is also co-author of leading forthcoming texts including the Law of Torts in Singapore, and Commercial Injunctions in Singapore.

Alongside academia, Aaron has a broad commercial practice at Setia Law LLC. He is instructed, and advises, on cross-border disputes and international enforcement, with a particular interest in cases that involve complex jurisdictional and conflict of laws issues.

Aaron holds degrees from Harvard University and SMU. He also currently serves as Young Independent Counsel for the Singapore Supreme Court, and as National Rapporteur for the General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law.