Ling Wei Hong – Lawyer Profile

• Acted as counsel for a High Court dispute involving the fitness of purpose of a specially designed and constructed water storage tank for a prominent feature in a Singaporean casino
• Assisted as counsel for a matter where we successfully argued for a stay of Court proceedings in favour of arbitration, even though the party we represented was not a part of the arbitration agreement
• Advising and representing a subsidiary of a local list co in disputes where multiple actions were launched simultaneously in arbitration, litigation and adjudication.
• Acting for the land development arm of a local list co in managing multiple disputes for claims relating to alleged defects in a luxury condominium development in a landed enclave in Singapore, with total claims amounting to more than SGD$15m
• Representing a Korean earthworks specialist sub-contractor against a joint-venture company in an arbitration for unpaid claims amounting to more than $10million
• Acting as counsel for a claim against a statutory board and its contractors for damage to a property arising out of nearby tunnelling works for the Circle Line and KPE.
• Acting as one of the counsels for a Hong Kong company against a Singapore GLC in the Court of Appeal in a landmark case on the assessment of damages arising from a breach of contract due to misrepresentation, where we successfully reduced the damages awarded from more than $8m to around $350,000

Experience in this area was from his role as an Insurance Claims broker, negotiating and managing claims on behalf of insureds against insurers, and include the following:

• Acting for a local bank for claims on their Bankers’ Blanket Bond policy in relation to several distinct matters. In one, the bank was making a claim for SGD$100m arising out of trade financing losses.
• Assisting a research institution for losses arising out of a cyber attack by dedicated state actors
• Assisting and advising a hospital for alleged medical malpractice arising out of misdiagnosis, where more than 200 patients were affected
• Acting and advising a commodities trader for claims on trade credit policies against insurers in 3 different jurisdictions, for claims amounting to an 8 figure sum.
• Acting and advising the owners of a luxury boutique hotel chain in their claims against insurers (for an 8 figure sum) for losses sustained due to Covid-19
• Acting for a consultant firm for an incident where a section of an expressway under construction collapsed (leading to a death and multiple injuries), due to the alleged under-designing of the engineering elements. Amount involved was an 8 figure sum
• Acting for a British firm carrying out construction of bridge in Thailand where allegations were raised about under-design