Twenty Essex

(Re)insurance; Arbitration; Banking and financial services; Civil fraud and asset tracing; Commodities and international trade; Energy and infrastructure; Insolvency and restructuring; Jurisdiction, conflicts and enforcement; Public international law; Shipping; Technology, media and telecoms

Jiahui is developing a broad practice across all of Chambers’ core practice areas, including international commercial arbitration and litigation, shipping, and public international law. He is qualified both in England and Wales and in Singapore, and has been instructed in relation to high-value commercial disputes in both jurisdictions.

Before joining Chambers, Jiahui was an Assistant Registrar and District Judge at the Supreme Court of Singapore, where he dealt with a wide range of civil and commercial disputes. He was concurrently appointed Special Assistant to Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, and assisted on numerous lectures and a book on international commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation in that capacity. Prior to that, he spent two years clerking for the Chief Justice and the judges of the Singapore Court of Appeal and High Court and the Singapore International Commercial Court as a Justices’ Law Clerk. He began his legal career with the Singapore Attorney-General’s Chambers in 2017, when he was gazetted as a State Counsel and Deputy Public Prosecutor.

Jiahui studied law at the University of Oxford, graduating first in his year and winning a number of other academic prizes. He then obtained a Masters in Law from Harvard Law School, where he received the John Gallup Laylin Prize for best student paper in public international law and worked as a research assistant for Professor Naz K Modirzadeh at the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict. Jiahui grew up in Singapore and China, and is a native Mandarin Chinese speaker.

Mandarin Chinese (fluent)