[Webinar] Personal Injury Claims: Recent Developments in the Law and Procedure

Venue: Zoom Webinar

In this webinar, District Judges from the Court Dispute Resolution Cluster (CDRC) of the State Courts will share on the recent new developments in the law and procedure which have impacted the practice of personal injury claims. The topics discussed will include the High Court judgment in Salmizan Bin Abdullah v Crapper Ian Anthony [2023] SGHC 75, the effect of the new Rules of Court 2021, and the changes to the CDRC case conference process.

 

Member Rate 

$70.00 (before GST) until 31 October 2023 

$90.00 (before GST) from 1 November 2023 onwards 

  

Non-member Rate 

$90.00 (before GST) until 31 October 2023 

$120.00 (before GST) from 1 November 2023 onwards 

 

Associate Student’s Rate$30.00 (before GST)

CPD Points : 1.5

Personal Injury

CPD
Past Event

3.45pm: Participants log in to webinar

4pm: Presentations by District Judge Joseph Yeo and District Judge Sheik Umar

4.45pm: Panel Discussion joined by District Judge Julian Chin and District Judge Carolyn Woo

5.20pm: Q&A

5.30pm: Webinar ends

Speakers:

District Judge Joseph Yeo

 

Joseph Yeo is a District Judge with the Court Dispute Resolution Cluster of the State Courts. He obtained his LLB from the National University of Singapore in 1989 and started his career as a litigation lawyer with Messrs Drew & Napier. He joined Messrs Kelvin Chia & Partners in 1997 before moving to Messrs Khattar Wong & Partners to practice litigation and international arbitration. In 2007, he joined the Legal Service and was appointed as a District Judge in the State Courts.

District Judge Sheik Umar

 

Sheik joined the State Courts in July 2019 and has served in the Civil Registry and Civil Trial Courts before joining the Court Dispute Resolution Cluster. He graduated from NUS in 2006 and had practised as a dispute resolution lawyer in Allen & Gledhill, Rajah & Tann and Baker McKenzie.Wong & Leow before joining the State Courts. His practice focused on complex commercial and construction disputes.

 

Panellists:

District Judge Julian Chin

 

Julian Chin is a District Judge with the Court Dispute Resolution Cluster of the State Courts. He was called to the Bar in 1993 and practised as a civil litigator, before he was appointed as a District Judge in 1999. He left the judiciary in 2010 to pursue theological studies. He served as a youth and young adults pastor from 2014 to 2018. He was re-appointed as a District Judge and re-joined the State Court in 2019.

District Judge Carolyn Woo

 

Carolyn graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1999 and joined the Legal Service after a short stint in private practice, starting as an Assistant Director in the Legal Aid Bureau. Since joining the then-Subordinate Courts in 2005, she has presided over a wide range of legal issues during her postings to the Family and Juvenile Court (now Family Justice Courts) and the Civil Division of the then-Subordinate Courts. Carolyn is currently a District Judge with the State Courts’ Court Dispute Resolution Cluster, as well as the Deputy Chairman of the Ministry of Finance Valuation Review Board and hears appeals in property tax matters. She is also a SMC accredited mediator and a certified SIMI mediator.

SILE Accredited CPD Activity

Number of Public CPD Points: 1.5

Practice Area: Personal Injury

Training Level: General

 

SILE Attendance Policy

Participants who wish to obtain CPD Points are reminded that they must comply strictly with the Attendance Policy set out in the CPD Guidelines. For this activity, this includes logging in at the start of the webinar and logging out at the conclusion of the webinar in the manner required by the organiser, and not being away from the entire activity for more than 15 minutes. Participants who do not comply with the Attendance Policy will not be able to obtain CPD Points for attending the activity. Please refer to http://www.SILECPDcentre.sg for more information.

 

L I F T E D by SAL

For enquiries related to this event, please email les@sal.org.sg.

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