[Webinar] Work Injury Claims: Claims under the Common Law and the Work Injury Compensation Act (WICA)

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.

Assistant Commissioner (AC) R. Manoj

AC R Manoj has been presiding over statutory work injury compensation claims lodged with the Ministry of Manpower for about 15 years. He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1994 and was called to the Bar of the Supreme Court in the following year. He spent more than seven years in private practice as a civil and criminal litigator before moving to the public sector as an in-house legal counsel with the newly formed National Environment Agency. He serves as a member of the Complaint & Disciplinary Committee in a statutory board. He was also an adjunct lecturer in Contract Law, Agency, and the Sale of Goods at the Singapore Institute of Purchasing & Materials Management.

District Judge Koh Juay Kherng

Koh Juay Kherng was appointed as a District Judge in 2013. Prior to his appointment, he was in private practice in the field of commercial litigation. Currently he presides as a District Judge & Deputy Registrar in the Court Dispute Resolution Cluster of the State Courts.

He is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb) and was a Tutor of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education (SILE).