Nadia’s practice represents a broad cross-section of the kind of legal services that most businesses and individuals typically need, regardless of industry sector or client profile, with a particular focus on dispute resolution.

She regularly advises corporate and private clients on schemes of arrangement, bankruptcy proceedings, trade disputes, employment disputes and a wide array of other contractual and tortious claims from fraud to defamation. Her litigation practice draws upon her experience representing clients in complex multi-jurisdictional cases involving misappropriation of funds and shareholder disputes. She has also represented numerous employers and employees in claims relating to wrongful dismissal, breach of employment contracts and harassment in the workplace. She has significant experience handling highly contentious cases of all kinds from State Courts to Court of Appeal level.

Her matrimonial practice features cross-border disputes regarding child custody and the enforcement of maintenance as well as High Court litigation pertaining to the division of substantial matrimonial assets located in multiple jurisdictions. Her criminal practice includes experience representing clients in prosecutions for drug offences, sexual offences and violent offences ranging from voluntarily causing hurt to homicide. She also has experience representing children charged with criminal offences.

Nadia’s non-contentious practice includes the drafting of various commercial agreements such as shareholders’ agreements and distribution agreements as well as personal legal instruments such as wills, lasting powers of attorney and deed polls.

Nadia is on the panel of lawyers of a number of embassies in Singapore.

Qualifications / Admissions

• LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore
• Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore
• Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales

Memberships

• Irish Chamber of Commerce, Singapore;
• The Medico-Legal Society of Singapore;
• Association of Criminal Lawyers of Singapore;
• The Law Society’s Family Law Practice Committee
• The Law Society’s Criminal Law Practice Committee;
• Singapore Association of Women Lawyers
• AIJA – International Association of Young Lawyers

Selected Cases

• OMG Holdings Pte Ltd v Pos Ad Sdn Bhd [2012] 4 SLR 231: Pleadings, limitation issue
• BMR v BMS [2013] SGDC 421: Care and control and access of child, maintenance
• JAI v JAI [2014] SGDC 382: Maintenance for wife
• TDI v TDJ [2015] SGFC 11: Care and control, overnight access
• TAT v TAU [2015] SGFC 19: Custody, care and control, access, relocation
• THH v THI [2015] SGFC 135: Interim maintenance for wife and child
• PP v Rosdi Bin Joenet [2016] SGHC 58: Sentencing for homicide in case of mental illness.
• Public Prosecutor v ASR [2018] SGHC 94: Sentencing of intellectually disabled young person for aggravated rape.