Mr Bernard Doray
(Director)
Contact
DID: (65) 6394 7850
Main (65) 6899 9888
Email: bernarddoray@brllawcorp.com
Qualification
LLB (Hons), University of Singapore, 1976
Year of Admission
Singapore Bar, 1979
Areas of Practice
Administrative Law, Arbitration, Bankruptcy & Insolvency, Civil & Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities Law, Real Estate
Work Experience
Bernard is the managing-director of the law corporation. He worked for the
Singapore Legal Service from 1976 to 1982 and has served in various
Legal Departments including the judiciary of the Subordinate Courts
before going into private practice in 1982. He has undertaken a variety
of civil and commercial litigation at both the trial and appellate
jurisdictions and advised as a solicitor on cross-border transactions
for acquisition of assets in Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia.
Presently he advises clients on establishing business organisations in
Singapore, the sale and purchase of real estate and undertakes trial
work.
Since 1985, Bernard has acted in numerous retail conveyancing transactions
including mortgages to DBS Bank, UOB, OCBC, HSBC, ABN Amro and Hong
Leong Finance. He has also personally acted in major transactions in his
career including an unincorporated joint-venture sale of land and buy
back of apartments which is now known as 800 Thomson; acted for the
developers in the sale of a block of apartments in the project known as
South Haven; the sale of landed properties in the project known as
Riverina; enbloc purchase and sale of Shan Mansions (Residential) at
Balestier Road and enbloc sale of Dapenso Building (Commercial) at Cecil
Road.
Others
Bernard served on the Law Society Cross Border and Multi-Disciplinary
Sub-Committees as well as the International Relations Committee. He also
tutors regularly in the Post Graduate Law Course for law graduates and
is a sub-committee member of the Singapore International Chamber of
Commerce and Singapore Institute of Directors. He was an independent
director of a publicly listed company and also holds non-executive board
appointments of several privately held companies. Bernard was appointed
a member of the Income Tax Board of Review in 2011.
Reported cases
Re Abdul Rahim Rajudin
[1988] SLR 907
Re Abdul Rahim Rajudin [1989] 1 MLJ
289
Abdul Rahim Rajudin v Law Society of Singapore
[1991] 1 MLJ 256
Abdul Rahim Rajudin v The Law Society of Singapore
[1991] SLR 1
Lee Kam Wah v Associated Asian Securities (Pte) Ltd
[1991] 3 MLJ 286
Associated Asian Securities Pte Ltd (in liquidation) v Lee Kam
Wah [1993] 1 SLR 585
De Souza Lionel Jerome v Attorney General
[1993] 1 SLR 882
Hanafiah v Public Prosecutor [1994] 1 SLR 321
Justlogin Pte Ltd and Another v Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp Ltd and
Another
[2004] 1 SLR 118
Cheah Geok Tuan (alias Seah Geok Tuan) and Another v Lie Khin Sin and
Another
[2006] 1 SLR 340
Law Society of Singapore v Tham Kok Leong Thomas
[2006] 1 SLR 775
Ong Chow Hong (alias Ong Chaw Ping) v Public Prosecutor and another appeal
[2011] SGHC 93
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