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PART A SINGAPORE BAR COURSE
Designed to familiarize graduates of
RHT
Overseas Scheduled Universities with TRAINING
Singapore law so that they can
confidently sit for the examination and INSTITUTE
practise in Singapore. Candidates will be
taught not only the principles of the law
but also how the law applies in practice.
COURSE RUN
2 August until 27 September 2021
The classes for the course will be
conducted online.
Professor Walter Woon S.C. Dr. Tan Lay Hong Mr. Rajan Menon
COURSE FEE Dean, RHT Training Institute LLB (NUS), LLM (King’s Founder & Senior
Instructor for Company & College, London), PhD (NUS) Consultant,
S$ 3,000 (No GST) Criminal Law Instructor for Singapore RHTLaw Asia
Legal System Instructor for Land Law
COURSE CONTENT
Eight three-hour sessions for each of the 5
subjects:
Company Law
Criminal Law
Singapore Legal System
Land Law
Evidence Law
Ms. Sandra Han Mr. Alexander Woon
Partner, Financial Services & Lecturer in Law, SUSS
Real Estate, RHTLaw Asia Instructor for Evidence Law
Instructor for Land Law
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COMPANY & CRIMINAL LAW
RHT
Professor Walter Woon is presently David Marshall Professor, Law
TRAINING
Faculty NUS, teaching Company Law and Criminal Law. He was
awarded a University teaching excellence award thrice and a Faculty
INSTITUTE
award five times. Professor Woon is Editor, Woon’s Corporation Law;
author of Walter Woon on Company Law (3rd Ed edited by Tan Cheng
Han); and Consulting Editor, Companies Act of Malaysia 2020.
He was Dean, SILE 2010-2020 and Chairman, Board of Legal
Education 2008-2010. He was also Coordinator, lecturer and examiner
in Company Law for SILE 2010-2020.
Education
LL.B NUS 1981 (1st Class Hons, awarded Adrian Clark Memorial Gold
Medal as top student); Practice Law Course 1981
(awarded Aw Boon Haw & Aw Boon Par Memorial Prize as top student);
LL.M Cambridge University 1983 (1st Class Hons; awarded Whytehead
Scholarship by St John’s College).
Professional
Attorney-General and Public Prosecutor 2008-2010; Solicitor-General
2006-2008. Chairman, Steering Committee for Review of the
Companies Act 2011. Special Counsel to the Steering Committee for
Re-Writing of the Taiwan Companies Act 2016. Professor Woon was a PROFESSOR WALTER WOON S.C.
director on the boards of two listed companies, Natsteel Ltd and Dean, RHT Training Institute
Intraco Ltd. He is an Honorary Fellow, Singapore Institute of Directors. Chairman, RHTLaw Asia
Currently he is a director on the board of St John’s Cambridge David Marshall Professor, NUS
(Singapore), a charitable company limited by guarantee. In addition Former Dean, SILE
he has served as a board member of several private companies and Former Attorney-General of Singapore
societies.
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LAND LAW
RHT
Rajan Menon is one of the founding members of RHTLaw Asia.
TRAINING
Rajan graduated from University of Singapore in 1971 with Bachelor
INSTITUTE
of Laws (Honours). He was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the
Supreme Court of Singapore in 1973 and is a solicitor of the Supreme
Court of England & Wales. He is also a fellow of Chartered Institute of
Arbitrators, United Kingdom, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators,
Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators and Singapore Institute of Directors
respectively.
Rajan was conferred the Public Service Medal (Pingat Bakti
Masyarakat, PBM) by the President of the Republic of Singapore and
the Friends of Labour Award by the National Trade Union Congress.
Rajan’s 43 year career comprises appointments with the Government
of Singapore as a Deputy Public Prosecutor and State Counsel with
the Attorney General’s Chambers and the Senior Deputy Registrar of
Land Titles and Deeds. He was also the Credit Manager with The
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
Rajan has considerable experience in the areas of banking, finance
and real estate, corporate and commercial work and has advised on
several complex and large property and finance transactions. His
expertise lies in structuring, providing strategic and value-added MR. RAJAN MENON
advice and leading transactions. Founder, Senior Consultant, RHTLaw
Asia
Rajan is a member of the board of directors of five other companies Former Senior Deputy Registrar of
viz Asian Paints International Private Limited (f.k.a. Berger Land Titles and Deeds
International Private Limited), TanGreat Investments Pte Ltd, Uni-Asia Public Service Medal (PBM)
Group Limited and YCAAZ Technology Pte. Ltd.
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LAND LAW
Sandra Han, co-teaching with Mr Rajan Menon, is a Partner at
RHTLaw Asia. Her main area of practice is real estate and private
clients. Her focus now includes purchases of residential,
commercial and industrial properties, loan transactions
(involving local and foreign banks). In addition, she handles the
sale of residential, commercial and industrial properties,
including acting for developers in the sale of properties under
construction, and the sale and leaseback of industrial properties
to real estate investment trusts.
Effectively bilingual, Sandra has acted for China’s property
developers in their sale of Chinese development projects, such
as the sale of Shanghai Fortune Gardens in Singapore and the
sale of Shenzhen’s Sinolink Garden in Jakarta. She also acted for
local developer Ho Bee Cove Pte Ltd in their sale of
condominium units in The Coast @ Sentosa Cove. She heads the
development team handling the sale of the condominium project
8 Riversuites located in Whampoa East/Bendemeer Road.
Sandra also advises, negotiates and drafts tenancies and leases
for residential, commercial and industrial properties. MS SANDRA HAN
Partner, Financial Services & Real Estate,
Sandra heads the firm’s corporate leasing team which handles
RHTLaw Asia
and manages a healthy portfolio of commercial units and offices
units. For private clients, Sandra handled Singapore permanent
residence applications under the Global Investor Program and
has many years’ experience with wills, probate and
administration matters.
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Dr Tan Lay Hong has had 6 years’ civil litigation experience at the
Singapore Bar before joining academia at Nanyang Business School,
NTU in 1992. She was a tenured Associate Professor at Nanyang
Business School for 24 years. She brings with her a wealth of teaching
experience, including the learner-centred pedagogy which uses
diagnostic questions to deliver the key issues across to the
participants.
In 2013, she was featured in the Straits Times, Scholars’ Choice as an
inspirational professor who “went the extra mile” for her students. She
has achieved academic recognition by her publications in The
International and Comparative Law Quarterly, The Journal of
Corporate Law, The Journal of Trade and Investment and The
Australian Law Journal. She has garnered 165 citations for all her
articles. Her most recent work is Annotations to the Companies Act,
Cap 50 (including the 2014 and 2017 amendments), Thomson-
Reuters, 2017.
In 2008, she was invited to serve in the Singapore Academy of Law,
Continuing Legal Education sub-committee where she introduced the
2-day workshop on derivatives which is well-attended by lawyers and
judicial officers.
DR TAN LAY HONG
From 2018 to 2020, she was a volunteer at the Legal Aid Bureau and LLB (NUS)
an instructor at the NUS Law School, Pro Bono and Legal Clinic. She is LLM (King’s College, London)
currently honorary legal adviser to the Singapore Federation of Karate- PHD (NUS)
do.
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RHT
Alexander Woon read law at the University of Cambridge on a
President’s scholarship and Overseas Merit Scholarship. He
TRAINING
subsequently obtained a Masters in International Legal Studies from
Georgetown University Law Center. During his LLM year, Alexander
INSTITUTE
was on the Dean’s List, graduated with Distinction, and received three
CALI Awards for being the top student in three subjects: Law of Armed
Conflict, Global Cybercrime Law, and International Civil Litigation.
Upon returning to Singapore, he received Distinctions in Company
Law and Evidence Law for Part A of the Singapore Bar Exam.
Professional experience
Alexander served as a Deputy Public Prosecutor/State Counsel with
the Financial and Technology Crime Division of the Attorney-General’s
Chambers (“AGC”). He prosecuted a wide variety of crimes including
corruption, white collar crime, technology crime, maid abuse,
intellectual property crime, and homicide. He has appeared in both the
State Courts and High Court as lead counsel and assisted with cases in
the Court of Appeal. Alexander also received specialised technology
and cybercrime training as part of the AGC’s Technology Crime Unit.
Notably, he led evidence before the Committee of Inquiry into the
SingHealth Cyberattack in 2018. Subsequently, Alexander joined the
Office of Transformation and Innovation (Judiciary) as Deputy Director,
tackling issues ranging from legal strategy, policy and law reform, to
promoting cultural change, and developing legaltech products. MR ALEXANDER WOON
Former Deputy Public Prosecutor
Teaching experience Programme Director, SMU Academy
Alexander has taught law to undergraduates at the National University Graduate Certificate in Law and
of Singapore and Singapore Management University as adjunct Technology
faculty. He is currently the Programme Director for SMU Academy’s Lecturer in Law, SUSS
Graduate Certificate in Law & Technology. Alexander will be joining
the Singapore University of Social Sciences as full-time faculty in
August 2021.
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