Seminar Synopsis

In this seminar we will explore the issues that can arise from the provision of expert evidence, both when experts do not fully consider all of the facts presented (either through their own omission, through limitation of their scope, or through their instructions) and when their evidence has additional consequences. Additionally, the panel will explore the immunity of experts and the circumstances when this immunity may not hold, including the issues of trying to limit liability. 

 About the Speakers

	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 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. Chew Xiang – Partner, Rajah & Tann LLP Mr. Chew Xiang is a Restructuring & Insolvency Partner at Rajah & Tann Singapore with significant experience in a range of commercial disputes, shareholder fights, and contentious restructuring and insolvency matters. He has been recognised as one of Singapore's most influential lawyers aged 40 and under by Singapore Business Review in 2019. Chew Xiang was formerly a journalist and served as a Justices’ Law Clerk before joining Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP in 2015, and was placed on the Supreme Court’s Young Amicus Curiae Scheme in 2017 where he assisted the High Court on two appeals relating to the Prevention of Corruption Act.
	Mr. Jonathan Ellis - Managing Director, Secretariat International 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.

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