Masters of the Bench

Justice Loh was appointed a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore on 1 September 2009 and a Supreme Court Judge on 1 June 2010. Prior to his joining the Bench, he was the Deputy Managing Partner of Rajah & Tann LLP from December 2003 to 12 August 2009. He was a key member of its international arbitration group as well as head of the Construction & Projects and Insurance and Reinsurance practice groups.  Prior to joining Rajah & Tann in 2001 as a member of its Executive Committee, he was Managing Partner of Cooma, Lau & Loh, a firm he co-founded in 1978.  He was appointed Senior Counsel in 1999.  Until his appointment as a Judicial Commissioner, he was also a founding director of Maxwell Chambers, a dedicated building for holding arbitrations.

In private practice, he has appeared as counsel in numerous domestic and international arbitrations, (SIAC and non-SIAC, ad hoc arbitrations, ICC, HKIAC) in various jurisdictions. His areas of practice also included liability insurance, professional negligence claims, D&O claims, regulatory aspects of insurance, reinsurance, building and construction claims, public law, shipping and admiralty, shipbuilding and rig construction claims and a wide range of commercial and corporate litigation.