Day 1 - 22 Apr 2019 (Monday) | |
Time | Programme |
08:20AM - 09:00AM | Registration |
09:00AM - 09:10AM | Opening Remarks Ian Lim – Chairman, Civil Practice Committee; Co-Chair, Conference Organising Committee, The Law Society of Singapore |
09:10AM - 09:30AM | Welcome Remarks Gregory Vijayendran, SC – President, The Law Society of Singapore |
09:30AM - 10:30AM | Keynote Address Mr Edwin Tong, SC – Senior Minister of State for Law and Health; Member of Parliament for Marine Parade GRC |
10:30AM - 11:00AM | Tea Break |
11:00AM - 12:45PM | Plenary Session 1: Civil Justice Reform – Win or Lose? Co-Chairs M K Eusuff Ali - Partner (Litigation, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution), Tan Rajah & Cheah Ian Lim - Chairman, Civil Practice Committee, Co-Chair, Conference Organising Committee, The Law Society of Singapore; Executive Director, TSMP Law Corporation Panellists The Honourable Justice See Kee Oon - Presiding Judge, The State Courts of Singapore Gregory Vijayendran, SC - President, The Law Society of Singapore Thio Shen Yi, SC – Joint Managing Partner, TSMP Law Corporation |
12:45PM - 02:15PM | Lunch |
02:15PM - 04:00PM | Plenary Session 2: The Future of ADR in Singapore Chair Samuel Chacko - Director, Legis Point LLC Panellists Judge Thian Yee Sze – Principal District Judge, The State Courts of Singapore Professor Dr Nadja Alexander – Professor of Law, Faculty of Law; Academic Director, Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy (SIDRA), Singapore Management University Cameron Ford - Corporate Counsel, Rio Tinto Dr Michael Hwang, SC - Sole Director, Michael Hwang Chambers LLC |
04:00PM - 04:30PM | Tea Break |
04:30PM - 06:15PM | Plenary Session 3: Pre-Trial I: Pleadings, CMC, Single Interlocutory Application Chair Celeste Ang - Co-Chair, Conference Organising Committee, The Law Society of Singapore; Principal, Baker & McKenzie.Wong & Leow Panellists The Honourable Justice Kannan Ramesh - Supreme Court of Singapore Judge James Leong - Principal District Judge, The State Courts of Singapore Abraham Vergis - Managing Director, Providence Law Asia |
End of Day 1 |