09:00 - 09:15

09.45 - 11.15

11:15 - 11:30

11.30 - 12.45

• Dr. Tan Teng Hooi – Associate Professor and the Dean of the School of Science and Technology, Singapore University of Social Sciences
• Mr. John Gibson - Director of Asia, Marine Engineer, Brookes Bell Singapore
• Mr. Jonathan Ellis - Managing Director, Secretariat

12:45 - 13:45

Lunch

Discussion of Problems/Hypotheticals

Revision and Self-study, Preparation for Examination

Examination

Launch of the APIEx Code of Conduct

Networking Session

Prof. Leslie Chew SC - President, Asia Pacific Institute of Experts; Dean, School of Law at the Singapore University of Social Sciences; Senior Consultant, RHT Law Asia LLP, Singapore
Prof. Leslie Chew SC is the founding and current Dean of the School of Law at the Singapore University of Social Sciences.  He has practiced law in one form or another for over 4 decades.  He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2000.  In 2007 he was appointed a judge in the State Courts where he remained until his retirement in 2014.  At the State Courts he was the Senior District Judge leading the Civil Justice Division.  He retired from the judiciary in 2014. Upon his retirement from the Singapore Legal Service, he returned to law practice. Currently, he is a Senior Consultant at RHT Law Asia LLP.  He has an active practice as an arbitrator in International Commercial Arbitrations.  

Mr. John Gibson – Director of Asia, Marine Engineer, Brookes Bell Singapore
Mr. John Gibson was at sea for twenty years before joining the Brookes Bell in 1996. He is a Chartered Engineer, with a Master’s degree, and since 2001 John has been a partner at Brookes Bell. An expert in his field, John uses his extensive consultancy and investigative experience to provide comprehensive assessments of marine and offshore casualties and disputes. The type of investigations John conducts are as diverse as they are thorough. As a member of the Institution of Fire Engineers John also reports on fatal and non-fatal fires. John has provided technical evidence for court proceedings and arbitration around the world and for the last 6 years he has been based in Singapore having set up the Brookes Bell office there. John is also a supporting member of the LMAA and a member of SCMA.

Mr. Jonathan Ellis - Managing Director, Secretariat, Singapore
Mr. Jonathan Ellis is a managing director with Secretariat and is based in Singapore. He specialises in the quantification of damages and valuations, in particular in dispute contexts. He has worked on matters before the UK and Singapore High Courts as well as in ad hoc, SIAC, LCIA, ICC, HKIAC, UNCITRAL and ICSID arbitration forums. He has provided oral testimony on a number of occasions, in both court and arbitration, and has been engaged as a tribunal appointed expert. Since 2017, Jonathan has been recognised among the leading arbitration expert witnesses worldwide by Who's Who Legal, where he has been classified as a “Global Elite Thought Leader” every year since 2020 and a “National Leader” in the inaugural Southeast Asia Arbitration list.

FEES
(inclusive of training materials, examination fee, launch event & networking session)

Member of:
1. Asia Pacific Institute of Experts (APIEx)

Member of:

1. Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA)

2. Singapore Chambers of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA)

3. Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb)

4. Society of Construction Law (Singapore) SCL(S)