Chong Yue-En Bethel Chambers LLC, Singapore

Yue-En is a qualified advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. His main area of expertise and experience is in family law and mental capacity matters. He currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Law Society’s Probate Practice and Succession Planning Committee. Yue-En is an experienced family litigator that seeks peaceful resolutions in acrimonious matrimonial cases with strong emphasis on adopting conciliatory methodologies. As lead counsel, he had argued cases in both the Family Justice Court and Supreme Court as well as the Syariah Court. He was assisting counsel in the case of ABV v ABW [2014] SGHC 29 where he was part of the team that successfully defended against an appeal by a father against his client, the mother, who won care and control of her daughters whom she had been alienated from by the father. In the area of Mental Capacity, he is passionate about protective justice for the vulnerable, and is known as one of the foremost experts in the area of Mental Capacity Law, having practiced in the area since the inception of the Mental Capacity Act in 2010. To date, he is the only lawyer in Singapore with a Masters of Law specialising in Social Care Law, where his dissertation focused on analysing the safeguards in the UK and Singapore protecting Patients from financial abuse by Court appointed Deputies and LPA Donees. He understands the importance of crafting specially tailored Lasting Powers of Attorneys and the specific needs of Deputies. To date, he has argued many successful Mental Capacity Applications before the Family Justice Court. Yue-En has also given talks on Lasting Powers of Attorney and the Mental Capacity Act to the Methodist Welfare Society, Insurance Agencies (Prudential and AIA), doctors at Government Hospitals, amongst various agencies.

Day 2, 19 Sept 2023

Time Session
11:00
11:55
What Should the Law Provide For? Avoiding Physical & Financial Abuse & Wealth Management
Mr Chong Yue-En Speaker Managing DirectorBethel Chambers LLC, Singapore
Ms Farah Deba Mohamed Sofian Speaker PartnerM/s Wong Lu Peen & Tunku Alina
Dr Chan Lee Lee Moderator