Sharon Lin
Partner, Withers KhattarWong*
Withers KhattarWong LLP is a Singapore law practice, affiliated with Withers LLP.
Sharon is a partner in the litigation and arbitration team.
Sharon is a partner in the litigation and arbitration team.
In more than a decade of litigation practice, Sharon has been involved in many high profile matters and has successfully represented clients in the State Courts and the High Court of Singapore.
The focus of Sharon’s work is on both the contentious and non-contentious aspects of insurance where she advises and acts for the major insurance companies in Singapore in various classes of insurance, with a special focus on professional indemnity insurance. She acts as defence counsel for various Real Estate professionals in disciplinary proceedings by the Council for Estate Agencies (CEA) before the Disciplinary Committee and Appeals Board. She is also appointed by Singapore Medical Council (SMC) in professional disciplinary matters against doctors.
Sharon’s portfolio also includes a significant amount of commercial litigation and arbitration cases, such as mining disputes, breaches of fiduciary duties, minority oppression, trademark infringement and tort of conspiracy claims. Sharon has delivered numerous seminars/ webinars and she is the author for several chapters in the Singapore Atkin’s Court Forms (Personal Injury, Third Party proceedings, Discovery, Payment into and out of Court and Discontinuance).
Sharon is an accredited Mediator with the Singapore International Mediation Institute (SIMI), accredited Mediation Advocate with International Mediation Institute (IMI) and a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb).
Sharon is recognised as a Global Leader in the inaugural edition of WWL: Professional Negligence 2020 by Who’s Who Legal.
Parcours
Admissions
Publications
Memberships
Representing and advising Singapore Medical Council in professional disciplinary matters against doctors.
Representing and advising real estate professionals in disciplinary proceedings and civil matters.
Represented a prominent hotel in a workplace injury claim by its former employee.
Singapore, 2007
Business Times article on the Singapore Convention on Mediation. Link: www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion/a-boost-to-mediation-and-singapore-as-a-premier-dispute-resolution-destination
Author, ‘Personal Injury, Road Traffic/Fatal Accidents’, chapter, Atkin’s Court Forms Singapore, LexisNexis – 2018 (re-issue)
Co-author, ‘To mediate or not to mediate? Viewpoint from an insurer law practitioner’, Singapore Mediation Centre’s newsletter - 4 October 2016
Member, Professional Indemnity Committee of the Law Society of Singapore
Member, Personal Injury Property Damage Committee of the Law Society of Singapore
Regent’s University London Accredited Mediator
Singapore International Mediation Institute (SIMI) Accredited Mediator
International Mediation Institute (IMI) Accredited Mediation Advocate
Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators
Études
Langues
- English
- Mandarin