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Luo Ling Ling - Managing Director at Luo Ling Ling LLC

Luo Ling Ling

MANAGING DIRECTOR
LUO LING LING LLC

Since 2020

Luo Ling Ling LLC was created during the COVID-19 crisis, in the middle of a lockdown in Singapore when most businesses were closed.

 

Ling Ling specialises in various types of cases:

  • Asset Management disputes against banks and asset managers

  • Total Title Collateral Agreement disputes

  • Construction claims including SOPA claims under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act

  • Contentious divorce cases 

  • White collar crimes 

  • Representation for listed companies and directors served with SGX Show Cause letters

  • Employment disputes

  • Defamation

  • Arbitration

  • Mediation 

  • Disciplinary proceedings against professionals (both as prosecution counsel and defence counsel)

  • MCST disputes in Court or before the Strata Titles Board

  • Complex Wills and LPAs, including clauses designed for pet owners   

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Ling Ling acts on a pro bono basis for the following organisations:​

  • Supreme Court of Singapore (Legal Aid Scheme for Capital Offences)

  • Ministry of Law (Assigned Solicitors Scheme)

  • Law Society Pro Bono Services  

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Notable achievements as defence counsel for criminal matters:

  • 2017 - She was appointed Amicus Curiae by the High Court in the case of PP v Gunasilan, to conduct cross-examination of the Prosecution’s witness in a capital offence.

  • 2018 - In PP v Alfian bin Abdul Rahim and another, Ling Ling saved a man from the gallows after a full trial in a drug trafficking charge, while the other accused person in the same trial was sentenced to death.

  • 2019 - In Mohamed Affandi bin Rosli v PP, she secured an acquittal for her client, who was earlier sentenced to death.

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Ling Ling was also appointed as a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators in 2022.

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CURRENT ACCREDITATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS

  • FSIArb (SIA)

  • Accredited Mediator (SMC)

  • Associate Mediator (SMC)

  • Mediator (LawSoc Family Law Mediation & Neutral Evaluation Scheme)

  • Singapore International Mediation Institute (Level 2)

  • MSF Conciliation Officer (Disputes in Tribunal for the Maintenance of Parents)

  • Assessor (Under s.39O of the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020)

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PARTNER
RHTLAW ASIA LLP

2018 - 2020

Ling Ling was a member of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group and Private Wealth Group. During her service in this firm, she successfully set aside a Mareva Injunction Order that was wrongfully obtained against a High Net Worth client (Suit 435 of 2019). Her experience in government service equipped her to represent various government agencies as counsel in disciplinary proceedings against professionals such as doctors, dentists and engineers. Well versed in administrative law, she also represented over a hundred bikers to make representations to the National Environment Agency (NEA) on a ban which affected around 27,000 motorcycles owners of unique classic motorcycles. This case was featured on The Sunday Times in May 2018 for the representation action by motorcyclists who are affected by the ban on older motorcycles. 

PARTNER
AEQUITAS LAW LLP

2017 - 2018

In Aequitas Law LLP, Ling Ling refined her expertise in construction claims under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act (SOPA). She acts for Developers, Employers, Main Contractors and Sub-contractors in both SOPA claims and defence work against wrongful SOPA claims. She has also argued in High Court applications to set aside Adjudication Determinations made against her clients. She has also advised clients on their arbitration claims in construction disputes. Her reported cases include: (1) Kingsford Construction Pte Ltd v A Deli Construction Pte Ltd – [2017] SGHC 174 and (2) Kwang Sing Engineering Pte Ltd v Sin Soon Lee Development Ltd – [2009] SGMC 1.

 
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, LEGAL
MINISTRY OF SOCIAL AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT

2013 - 2017

During her engagement in the Singapore civil service (2013 – 2017), Ling Ling served in the Office of the Public Guardian, Ministry of Social and Family Development, as a Policy Advisor and later became Assistant Director, Legal. Ling Ling was the Public Guardian's representative for court proceedings and attended various hearings for the following matters: 

  • OS No. 601791 of 2001 - Represented the Public Guardian to respond to the High Court's request for clarifications on certain confidential issues in relation to the Mental Capacity Act.

  • OS No. 1209 of 2014 - Represented the Public Guardian to respond to the High Court's request for clarifications on certain confidential issues in relation to the Mental Capacity Act and welfare of patient in the case mentioned.

  • OSM No. 1 of 2014 - Represented the Public Guardian for hearings in the Family Justice Court on the application to determine the patient's mental capacity to revoke an LPA. Patient's autonomy was upheld, and the case was widely reported in the media.

  • OSM No. 16 of 2014 - Represented the Public Guardian in proceedings for the first application by the Public Guardian to cancel a LPA.

  • OSM No. 12 of 2014 - Represented the Public Guardian to respond to court's queries on certain confidential issues in relation to the Mental Capacity Act.

  • OSM 107 of 2016 - Represented the Public Guardian to respond to court's queries on certain confidential issues in relation to the Mental Capacity Act and the case is noteworthy as the validity of LPA was called into question.

SENIOR ASSOCIATE
COLIN NG & PARTNERS LLP

2008 - 2013

Early into her legal career, Ling Ling conducted trials and appeals as lead counsel in court. She also represented clients in contentious interlocutory applications including seeking and defending applications for summary judgment, discovery, interrogatories, security for costs as well as enforcing judgments through applications for garnishee orders, examination of judgment debtors and bankruptcy proceedings.

 

Other than civil and commercial cases, Ling Ling also enjoys working on complex criminal matters, with a focus on white collar crimes and capital offences. She represented a Director of Airocean in his trial and appeal for several offences under the Securities and Futures Act from 2008 to 2012. Her work secured a successful appeal for the client. She represented a man convicted of murdering a taxi driver in a robbery gone wrong, in his appeal against the death sentence in 2012. 

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REPORTED CASES

  1. Sa’adiah bte Jamari v Public Prosecutor [2023] 3 SLR 191 

  2. Iskandar bin Rahmah and others v Attorney-General and another [2022] 2 SLR 1018 

  3. Re Tay Quan Li Leon [2022] SGHC 133 

  4. Public Prosecutor v GDX [2021] SGDC 142 

  5. Zhong Kai Construction Co Pte Ltd v Diamond Glass Enterprise Pte Ltd [2021] SGHC 277 

  6. HC/DCA 40/2020 - Yeow Khim Seng Mark v Phan Ying Sheng [Appeal partially allowed in June 2021] [2021] SGHC 145 

  7. HC/RAS 3/2020 - Management Corporation Strata Title Plan No. 4066 v Wong Wei Kit Leslie (Huang Wei Jie Lesle) & Jasmine Lau (Liu Ying Xuan) [2020] SGDC 15 [heard on 13 April 2021] 

  8. HC/S 164/2021 - Sunmax Global Capital Fund 1 Pte. Ltd. v Tanoto Sau Ian [Acted for a High Net Worth individual, Mr Tanoto Sau Ian in a complex commercial litigation case] 

  9. Xia Zheng v Lee King Anne [2021] SGHC 199 [Confidential, acting for a High Net Worth Individual, Ms Lee King Anne] 

  10. HC/S 88/2021 - USP Group Limited v Tham Wai Mun Raphael & 4 Ors [Acting for listed company USP] 

  11. HC/S 115/2020 - Oon Koon Cheng v Usp Group Limited & Anor [Acted for listed company USP] 

  12. HC/S 116/2020 - USP Group Limited v Lim Boh Soon [Acted for listed company USP] 

  13. HC/S 130/2021 - USP Group Limited & 4 Ors v Li Hua [Acting for listed company USP] 

  14. HC/S 612/2020 - Oon Koon Cheng v Li Hua & 3 Ors [Acted for listed company USP] 

  15. HC/HC 900021/2020 - PP v CEO [Acting in a complex serious sexual offence involving several men drugging and raping each other’s wives] 

  16. Public Prosecutor v Sa’adiah SGDC 96 [2021] [Babysitter poisoning trial] 

  17. BAFCO Singapore Pte Ltd v Lee Tze Seng (Li Shucheng) & Ors [2020] SGHC 281 [Employment dispute and injunctions] 

  18. HC/AAS 479/2019 - Re Kuoh Hao Teng [2021] SGHC 79 

  19. VRV v VRW [2021] SGFC 61 

  20. CA119/2020 - Diamond Glass Enterprises Pte Ltd v Zhong Kai Construction Pte Ltd [SGCA] 61 

  21. Kay Swee Pin v Ng Kong Yeam [2020] 3 SLR 819 

  22. Mohamed Affandi bin Rosli v Public Prosecutor [2019] 1 SLR 440  

  23. Public Prosecutor v Mohammad Azwan bin Bohari [2019] SGHC 23   

  24. Public Prosecutor v Alfian bin Abdul Rahim [2018] SGHC 234  

  25. Public Prosecutor v Saridewi binte Djamani [2018] SGHC 204  

  26. Public Prosecutor v Gunasilan Nadarajah [2018] SGHC 170  

  27. Public Prosecutor v Abdul Rahim bin Shapiee [2018] SGHC 82 

  28. AWI Pte Ltd v AWJ Pte Ltd [2017] SCAdjR 169 

  29. Wang Wenfeng v Public Prosecutor [2012] 4 SLR 590 

  30. Madhavan Peter v Public Prosecutor and other appeals [2012] 4 SLR 613 

  31. Public Prosecutor v Ng Kim Inn Mervin [2011] SGDC 365 

  32. UOI v UOJ [2018] SGFC 77 

  33. Kingsford Construction Pte Ltd v A Deli Construction Pte Ltd [2017] SGHC 174 

  34. Then Khek Koon and another v Arjun Permanand Samtani [2014] 1 SLR 245 

  35. Then Khek Khoon and another v Arjun Permanand Samtani [2012] 2 SLR 451 

  36. Lee Shieh-Peen Clement and another v Ho Chin Nguang [2010] 3 SLR 807 

  37. Lee Shieh-Peen Clement and another v Ho Chin Nguang [2010] 4 SLR 801 

  38. Lee Shieh-Peen Clement and another v Ho Chin Nguang and others [2010] SGHC 12 

  39. Gateway 21 Pte Ltd v Gateway 21 Consultants Pte Ltd (formerly known as Gateway 21 Business Consultants Pte Ltd) [2010] SGDC 22  

  40. Kwang Sing Engineering Pte Ltd v Sin Soon Lee Development Ltd [2009] SGMC 1 

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