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Family Law Masterclass for the Advanced Practitioner

25, 27 November 2025 (25 November: 9.00am - 5.45pm)
(27 November: 9.00am – 5.30pm)

SAL, Marina 3, The Adelphi #07-01, 1 Coleman Street (S179803)

The Family Law Masterclass for the Advanced Practitioner traverses the breadth and depth of family matters. While the standard topics such as matrimonial and divorce proceedings, maintenance, adopt, maintenance, will be covered, their treatment will focus on complex issues that experienced family lawyers may encounter or are increasingly encountering in their practice, such as pre-nuptial agreements, co-mingling of assets, gay adoption, enforcement of foreign divorce orders and more.

The course is targeted at family law practitioners with at least 5 years of family law practice experience.

Those who have successfully completed the Family Therapeutic Justice Certification Programme (FTJCP) may receive a 10% discount off the course fee. Participants of the Family Law Masterclass will receive a 10% discount off the FTJCP course fee for future runs. For further details, please email [email protected].

Prices

Early bird rate

(until 11 Nov 2025)

Usual rate

(12 Nov 2025 onwards)

SAL Member

$1340.00

$1790.00

Non-member

$1610.00

$2150.00

SkillsFuture Credit (for self-funded individuals only)

All Singaporeans aged 25 and above can utilise their SkillsFuture Credit to cover a wide range of approved skills-related courses. Take this opportunity to partially offset the course fee with your SkillsFuture Credit. You can explore available courses on the MySkillsFuture website. Please complete this form if you are interested to claim your SkillsFuture Credit.

This is a Training Workshop and your registration is subject to the relevant terms and conditions for Training Workshops.

Member's Price: SGD 1,460.60

Usual Price: Special Price SGD 1,754.90 Regular Price SGD 2,343.50

Member's Price: SGD 1,460.60

Usual Price: Special Price SGD 1,754.90 Regular Price SGD 2,343.50

Family matters

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CPD Points: 13.5

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Overview

Day 1

Time	Agenda	Speaker
9.00am – 11.00am	International and cross-border family matters	Clement Yap (Partner, Harry Elias Partnership)
11.00am – 11.15am	Tea Break
11.15am – 12.15pm	Tutorial: Discussion question exercise	Clement Yap
12.15pm –1.15pm	Lunch
1.15am – 3.15pm	Succession, probate, and administration	Goh Kok Yeow (Senior Partner, Head of Probate/Trust Practice, De Souza, Lim & Goh LLP)
3.15pm – 3.30pm	Break
3.30pm – 4.30pm	Mental capacity and health and vulnerable adults	Tan Kah Wai (Senior Associate, LVM Law Chambers)
4.30pm – 4.45pm	Tea Break
4.45pm – 5.45pm	Tutorial: Discussion question exercise	Goh Kok Yeow & Tan Kah Wai
5:45pm	End Day 1

Day 2

Time	Agenda	Speaker
9.00am –10.15am	Divorce and matrimonial proceedings and ancillary matters	Raymond Yeo (Raymond Yeo Advocates and Solicitors)
10.15am – 10.30am	Tea Break
10.30am – 11.45am	Custody, guardianship of infants	Raymond Yeo
11.45am – 1.00pm	Lunch
1.00pm – 2.30pm	Maintenance, adoption and applications concerning personal protection and applications under the Protection from Harassment Act 2014 (2020 Rev Ed)	Shaun Ho (Special Counsel, Withers KhattarWong LLP)
2.30pm – 2.45pm	Tea Break
2.45pm – 3.45pm	Tutorial: Discussion question exercise
3.45pm – 4.00pm	Break
4.00pm – 5.00pm	Ethics and professional standards in Family Law practice	Raymond Yeo & Shaun Ho
5.00pm – 5.30pm	Guest presentation: Youth Court proceedings	DJ Amy Tung, Family Justice Courts
5.30pm	End Day 2

Speakers

	Goh Kok Yeow Kok Yeow specialises in Probate / Trusts laws and Intellectual Property laws. He has practised law for more than 38 years. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in July 1987, and was admitted to the Singapore Bar in June 1988. He has been a partner of the Firm since 1991. He is also a Member of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. Since 2011, Kok Yeow has been an Adjunct Senior Teaching Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education for Wills, Probate and Administration (WPA) for the Part B Course. From 2015 to 2017, he was the Subject Co-ordinator for the WPA Course. Kok Yeow is also the Co-Chairman of the Law Society of Singapore’s Probate Practice Committee.
	Raymond Yeo Raymond started his professional career handling a wide range of work including civil and contractual claims such as personal injuries and general litigation work, corporate secretarial work and criminal practice with the primary focus on family law. Heremains in active litigation practice from 1998 to date, handling cases commencing in the Family Justice Courts to instituting and defending cases in the High Court and in the Court of Appeal. Raymond has since developed a specialist area of practice and he runs his own boutique law firm providing services in the area of family and matrimonial law. He undertakes a wide variety of cases relating to matrimonial and family law ranging from applications under the Mental Capacity Act to foreign divorces with complex cross-border jurisdictional and foreign claims. He has extensive litigation experience in cases concerning acrimonious custody disputes as well as division of assets of substantial values. Raymond is also actively involved as a Principal Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre. Raymond was also appointed by the Family Justice Courts as an Amicus Curiae and he is listed as a Child Representative with the Family Justice Courts for cases involving custody disputes. Raymond is also a trained Parenting Coordinator, having completed his Advanced Parenting Coordination Training Program jointly organized by the Family Justice Courts together with the Law Society of Singapore as well as completed a training course on Parenting Coordination with the Hong Kong Academy of Law.
	Shaun Ho Special Counsel, Family Law, Withers KhattarWong Shaun Ho is a special counsel in the family team at Withers KhattarWong. He is a specialist family lawyer with experience in all areas of family law. This includes divorce, guardianship and custody applications, adoption (especially where the proposed adopter(s) is/are LGBT individuals), maintenance, family violence, division of assets (especially involving high net worth individuals and involving family businesses), and the drafting of pre-nuptial agreements and other marital agreements. Shaun has been listed in the Doyle's Guide since 2022, and has been recognised as a 'Future Star' by Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific in 2025. Shaun has been involved in several high-profile cases involving non-traditional family units including the landmark 2018 case of UKM v Attorney-General. He also has a particular interest in the international relocation of children. Shaun also has substantial experience in cases involving the division of assets, where the pool of matrimonial assets includes assets that are atypical of most families. Shaun is also experienced in alternative dispute resolution methods, including negotiation and mediation.
	Tan Kah Wai Kah Wai was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 2020. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and a Master of Laws (International Business Law) from King’s College London. He possesses specialist expertise in mental capacity and private wealth disputes. Not only did he co-author the first substantive monograph on the Singapore’s Mental Capacity Act 2008, he also penned multiple academic articles on Singapore’s mental capacity law, some of which are regularly cited in medico-legal journals including the Medical Law Review.
	Clement Yap Harry Elias Partnership LLP Clement is a Partner in Harry Elias Partnership LLP’s Family and Divorce Practice Group. He specialises in contested matrimonial litigation, with a specific focus on cross-border divorces. He has acted as lead counsel in the Family Justice Court, Supreme Court and Syariah Court. Clement holds the concurrent appointment of Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at the National University of Singapore’s (‘NUS’) Faculty of Law. Clement designs and teaches the Specialised Topics in Family Law module. In 2023 Clement was recognised by Singapore Business Review as one of Singapore’s 30 Most Influential Lawyers Under 40. Clement was ranked as a Recommended lawyer in the 2023 to 2025 editions of Doyle’s Guide: Leading Family & Divorce Lawyers – Singapore. Clement has been involved in many notable decisions, such as:- WQP v WQQ [2024] SGHC(A) 34 VIG v VIH [2020] SGHCF 16 UTL v UTM [2019] SGHCF 10 BZD v BZE [2020] SGCA 1 From 2018 to 2022 Clement also held the appointment of Instructor for the Legal Analysis and Communication Module at NUS’ Faculty of Law, a compulsory course for law students covering legal analysis, research skills as well as written and oral advocacy.
	District Judge Amy Tung Judicial Head, Youth Courts Family Justice Courts DJ Amy Tung started her legal career as a Justices’ Law Clerk at the Supreme Court. Since then, she had served as an Assistant Registrar hearing interlocutory applications and conducting case management at the Supreme Court and a District Judge presiding over criminal trials and family proceedings at the then Subordinate Courts. Apart from her court work experience which covers civil, criminal and family matters, DJ Amy Tung was also the Director of the Legal Services Unit of the Ministry of Social and Family Development for seven years from 2015 to 2021. She returned to the Family Justice Courts in January 2022 and was appointed the Judicial Head of Youth Courts with effect from 1 September 2023.

Other Information

SILE Accredited CPD Activity

Number of Public CPD points: 13.5 Public CPD Points (6 Public CPD Points for Day 1 (inclusive of 1 MEC point), 7.5 Public CPD Points for Day 2)

Practice Area: Family

Training Level: General

SILE Attendance Policy

Participants who wish to obtain CPD Points must comply strictly with the Attendance Policy set out in the CPD Guidelines. For this activity, participants are reminded to sign in on arrival and sign out at the conclusion of each day of the event in the manner required by the organiser. Participants must not be absent from each day of the event for more than 15 minutes. Participants may obtain Public CPD Points for each day of the event on which they comply strictly with the Attendance Policy. Participants who do not comply with the Attendance Policy on any particular day of the event will not be able to obtain CPD Points for that day. Please refer to www.sileCPDcentre.sg for more information.

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