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Ms Foo
Soon Yien
(Director)
Contact
DID: (65) 6394 7688
Main (65) 6899 9888
Email: foosoonyien@brllawcorp.com
Qualification
LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore, 1985
Year of Admission
Singapore Bar 1986
Areas of Practice
Commercial and Corporate Litigation, Commercial Arbitration and Mediation,
Real Estate, Conveyancing and Probate disputes, Employment
disputes, Landlord and Tenant disputes, Personal Injury claims
Work Experience
Soon Yien was one of the founding members of our law practice
and now heads up the Civil Litigation Department. She is an
experienced litigator of 25 years standing. She has acted as
counsel in a wide variety of commercial, property and chancery
litigation work involving property law, complex conflict of law
issues, shareholder disputes, derivative actions, limitation
periods, contentious probate matters, trademark cases,
distributions of assets in family disputes, letters of credit
cases and disputes in enbloc transactions.
She has made her mark in taking novel legal arguments not only
to courts of original jurisdiction but to appellate courts
including the Court of Appeal. Some landmark cases include
acting for a foreign corporation in expunging a registered
trademark which was heard in the Court of Appeal and
subsequently cited as precedents for trade mark cases.;
successfully acting for a seller in a landmark property case
which was also heard in the Court of Appeal and set the law on
whether unauthorized works to properties constituted defect in
title; acted successfully in an environment issue avoiding
forfeiture orders which relied on a lacuna in the Environmental
Public Health Act which subsequently led to an amendment in the
said Act and the judgement was reproduced in an eminent
publication of the then Singapore Chief Justice Yong Pung How;
successfully defended in the Court of Appeal the principle that
fraud vitiates all but not a judgement in rem relied on by bona
fide purchasers of real estate without notice. A full and
detailed write up of her work experience can be made available
on request.
Reported Cases
Karrimor International Ltd v Ho Chong Fun t/a Ah Hwa Trading Co
[1989] SLR 801
Huang Ching Hwee v Heng Kay Poh & Anor
[1990] SLR 1220 (Also reported in Straits Times 18 November
1992)
In The Matter of The Estate Of Pakirisamy Vengadasalam,
deceased, Nirmala Devi d/o Vengadasalam v Danalakshmi Nee
rishnan and Others
[1990] SGHC 130
Lee Choon Peng & Anor v Lamco Building Pte Ltd
[1991] 3 MLJ 363 (Also reported in Business Times 22 May 1991)
Wong Yuk Fong Lily v Menezes (Menezes Daniel Matthew,
Intervener)
[1992] 2 SLR 446
People’s Parkway Development Pte Ltd v Akitek Tenggara
[1993] 1 SLR 704
Lambias (Imported & Exported) Co. Pte Ltd v Hongkong & Shanghai
Banking Corporation
[1993] 2 SLR 751 (Also reported in Business Times 27 May 1993)
Dong Yuan Hang Trading Pte Ltd v Sunko (S) Co Pte Ltd
[1994] 3 SLR 603
Toh Teong Seng v PP
[1995] 2 SLR 273 (Also reported in the Singapore Law Gazette
July 1995, Academy Digest issue 8/95, Speeches and Judgements of
the Singapore Chief Justice Yong Pung How and the Straits Times
14 April 1995)
Banque Indosuez v Madam Sumilan Awal & Ors
[1996] SGHC 172
(Reported in Lawnet)
Payna Chettiar v Low Meng Seng & Ors
[1998] 2 SLR 289 (Also reported in the Chinese newspaper on 14
March 1998)
National Scientific (S) Pte ltd v Ho Wai Ming & Ors
[2002] 2 SLR 251
Momentum Creations Pte Ltd v Tan Eng Khoon trading as De Angeli
[2003] 1 SLR 342
3 FB v FC
[2004] SGDC 112
Cheah Geok Tuan (alias Seah Geok Tuan) and Anor v Lie Khin Sin
and Anor
[2005] SGHC 210
The Law Society Of Singapore v Tham Kok Leong Thomas
[2005] 2 SGHC 231, [2006] 1 SLR 775
Tan Siew Tian and Others v Lee Khek Ern Ken Enbloc Sale of
Airview Tower
[2008] SGHC 41
Tan Siew Tian and Others v Lee Khek Ern Ken
[2008] SGCA 25 CA 46/2008
Mervyn Lim We–Jin and Jessie Tham Yi Min v Jason Teo Shen Yuan
and Chan Sue Li in Originating Summon No 534 of 2008/W (Reported
in the Straits Times 27June 2008)
Law Chin Eng & Anor v Hiap Seng & Co Pte Ltd
(Lau Chin Hu & Ors, applicants) [2009] SGHC 223
Law Chin Eng & Anor v Lau Chin Hu & Ors [2009] SGHC 225
Ursula Starke & 2 Ors v The Management Corporation Strata Title Plan No. 2864,
Knight Frank Estate Management Pte Ltd & Aquatech Products & Services
Pte Ltd in High Court Suit No. 1004 of 2009P (Reported in the Straits Times 17 May 2010)
Lim Lye Hiang v The Official Assignee reported in The Straits Times 13 October 2010 and
Lim Lye Hiang, ex parte the Official Assignee [2010] SGHC 299 (Reported in The Straits Times on 15 November 2011)
Foo Song Mee v Ho Kiau Seng [2011] SGCA 45 (Reported in The Straits Times 9 July 2011)
Lew Kiat Beng v Hiap Seng & Co Pte Ltd and another appeal [2011] SGCA 61, Court of Appeal
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