Maritime and Shipping Law Course for Legal and Industry Practitioners (July 2025)

Daryll Richard Ng

Daryll is a partner at Virtus Law, and the managing partner of the Stephenson Harwood Singapore office. He also heads the Stephenson Harwood (Singapore) Alliance dispute resolution practice in Singapore. He has specialised in marine and commercial dispute resolution for more than 20 years. Qualified to practise both in Singapore and the UK, Daryll has appeared at all levels of the Singapore Court and has acted in numerous arbitrations and mediations. Daryll is recognised as a Senior Accredited Specialist in Maritime and Shipping Law by Singapore Academy of Law, named in Asia Business Law Journal's A-list of Singapore's Top 100 Lawyers, listed as a Recommended Lawyer by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific and a Leading Individual by Chambers Asia Pacific.

Colin Jarraw

Colin is one of the founding partners of Virtus Law LLP, a Singapore law firm that operates under the formal law alliance Stephenson Harwood (Singapore) Alliance.

His principal area of practice is in banking and ship finance. He is also adept at company law, with a focus on shipping having been involved in a number of major merger and acquisition transactions involving shipping companies in Singapore. Colin regularly acts as Singapore legal counsel for all the major shipping finance banks in high value ship finance and complex leasing transactions.

He has also advised owners in ship sale and purchase transactions, charterparties, shipbuilding contracts and vessel registrations and de-registrations. Colin also has had experience as a litigator, having practised both in Malaysia (as a general commercial litigator) and in Singapore (as a shipping litigator) where he has appeared up to the Courts of Appeal in both jurisdictions.

Mr Bernard Yee
Managing Director, Resource Law LLC

Bernard is an experienced litigator and dispute resolution practitioner. He regularly appears as counsel before courts and arbitral tribunals in Singapore on a wide range of contentious matters.
Bernard represents clients in a wide range of general and commercial disputes ranging from corporate insolvency and shareholders disputes to cross-border asset tracing and enforcement actions, often utilising procedures such as maritime arrest, freezing injunctions, search orders and evidence preservation orders.

Bernard also regularly advises shipowners, charterers, P&I Clubs and H&M insurers on shipping and transportation related matters. He represents these clients in legal proceedings, arbitrations and dispute resolution processes. Bernard’s experience in this field has earned him accreditation as a senior specialist for maritime and shipping law.

Mr Bazul Ashhab
Managing Partner & Head of Dispute Resolution, Oon & Bazul LLP

Bazul Ashhab is Oon & Bazul’s Managing Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution leading its Litigation and the Arbitration Practice Groups.

He is highly regarded by the shipping industry and has significant expertise in dry shipping and marine insurance disputes. He has been involved in several landmark shipping matters around the world. He has assisted marine insurers in the region to set up fixed premium P&I products and to set up their claims department. He has also acted for insurers in both treaty and facultative reinsurance disputes.

Some of his notable cases include acting successfully for an Indian shipowner in a Singapore arbitration against Singaporean charterers, where the vessel was detained in Iraq during the civil unrest just after the American occupation, and representing an Indian bank in UCO Bank v. Golden Shore Transportation Pte Ltd, where the Singapore Court of Appeal clarified the law on the right of suit under a bill of lading.

He has been cited in Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Legal 500 Asia Pacific and Chambers Asia Pacific.

Mr Winston Kwek
Partner, Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Winston is active in dispute resolution work in the Singapore courts and international arbitrations. Winston has extensive experience in a wide variety of shipping related work ranging from marine insurance, ship sale and purchase, ship finance, casualty work, ship construction and repair, structured finance, commodities and charterparty disputes to shipping fraud cases.

In Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers, he comes highly recommended by clients due to his “overwhelming experience and ability to put in that little bit extra to tip the balance in a case” and is “always the first choice” for mortgage enforcement work.

Winston also taught the Law of Marine Insurance at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore as an Adjunct Associate Professor, and is the Editor of Marine Insurance, Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore.

Mr Augustine Liew
Partner, Incisive Law LLC 

Augustine Liew is a litigator concentrating his practice mainly in admiralty including ship arrests, casualties, fires, groundings, collisions, salvage, general average, towage, cargo claims, personal injury claims, crew and wages disputes, ship management disputes, claims involving loss of containers in inclement weather and bunker disputes. He has handled oil shortage and contamination disputes as well and generally disputes in the oil and gas sector.  He handles both H&M and P&I Club matters mostly for shipowners and their insurers.

Some of his notable cases include NEPTANK III, the first case in Singapore on oil pollution where the Owners of a ship carrying oil in bulk had successfully invoked limitation under the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act (repealed), Marina Iris where he represented the shipowner in a marine hull and machinery insurance matter in which a tug sank during her voyage from Kobe to Singapore, and an LMAA arbitration held in London where he represented the Seller of a newbuilding in a sale and purchase dispute of about US$34m. More recent involvements are in the MV X-PRESS PEARL and MV MAERSK HONAM fire matters.

He has also lectured in admiralty and shipping law at various educational institutes including Nanyang Technological University, Temasek Polytechnic and SILE, and is a contributor to several publications.

Mr Ian Teo
Managing Director, Helmsman LLC

Ian Teo, Managing Director of Helmsman LLC, is a commodities and shipping specialist lawyer. He is consistently recommended in major legal publications for his shipping and commodities expertise, including Chambers – The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, World’s Leading International Trade and Shipping Lawyers, Asia Pacific Legal 500 and Best Lawyers International (2013 -2018). In the 2016 edition of Best Lawyers International, Ian was named Singapore Trade Lawyer of the Year.

In 2019, Ian was amongst of the first batch of Senior Accredited Shipping and Maritime Law Specialists recognised by the Singapore Academy of Law. He was also recognised by Euromoney Expert Guides 2019 as one of the world’s 30 Best of the Best shipping lawyer.

He is a member of the adjunct faculty at the Singapore Management University, School of Law, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration and an Adjunct Fellow of the NUS Centre for Maritime Law. He contributes to academia regularly, and has published in Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Quarterly. Ian is qualified to practise in Singapore and English & Wales.

Mr Dedi Affandi Ahmad AS (MS) 
Partner, Shipping & International Trade practice group, Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Dedi Affandi Ahmad is a Partner in the Shipping & International Trade practice group in Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP.

His areas of practice encompass international trade work and the whole spectrum of “dry” and “wet” shipping work. These include marine casualties, maritime insolvency, bunker claims, charterparty, contracts of affreightment, bill of lading, ship sale, ship repairs, marine insurance, international sanctions and commodities disputes. Dedi also handles various disputes involving fraud, breaches of fiduciary duties, dishonest assistance and conspiracy arising in the shipping context. 

Dedi is regularly instructed to represent clients in the Singapore Courts and in international arbitration, including under the SCMA, SIAC, LMAA and AIAC Rules. Dedi is also highly experienced in assisting clients in foreign court litigation by leveraging on the firm’s regional presence and its extensive network of contacts around the world.

He is named as an Accredited Specialist in Maritime and Shipping Law by the Singapore Academy of Law’s Specialist Accreditation Scheme. He now sits on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Maritime Law at the National University of Singapore.

Mr Toh Kian Sing SC
Senior Partner & Head of the Shipping & International Trade,
Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Toh Kian Sing SC is a Senior Partner and Head of the Shipping & International Trade Practice Group of Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP. 

He acts as counsel in shipping and commodity arbitrations and accepts appointments to act as arbitrator in these areas. He is on the panel of arbitrators of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration, China Maritime Arbitration Commission, Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration and has accepted appointments to act in ICC arbitrations. He is a Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. 

His scope of expertise includes bills of lading, charterparty, marine insurance and reinsurance, shipbuilding, ship sale and purchase litigation as well as arbitration, oil trading, oil rigs and commodity disputes as well as letters of credit litigation. 

He is consistently featured in the Chambers Asia-Pacific and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific.

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.