CNPLaw’s Venetia TAN and Edwyna ONG acted for the appellant in their successful appeal before the Singapore Court of Appeal.

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CNPLaw’s Venetia TAN and Edwyna ONG acted for the appellant in their successful appeal before the Singapore Court of Appeal.


Date Published: 13 June 2022


The lawyers who advised the client: Venetia Tan and Edwyna Ong.




Venetia TAN and Edwyna ONG acted for the appellant in their successful appeal before the Singapore Court of Appeal : CJA v CIZ [2022] SGCA 41, one of the landmark decisions in arbitration law on the question of the scope of an arbitral tribunal’s jurisdiction under the International Arbitration Act, and the interpretation of the submissions to the tribunal in the arbitration.

Venetia TAN was recognised as one of Asia’s Super 50 Disputes Lawyers in the Asian Legal Business’s (“ALB”) inaugural list in 2021. ALB is owned by Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals.

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    Venetia is a disputes lawyer with experience handling international arbitration, litigation and advisory work on international and local commercial disputes, in particular, disputes relating to foreign investments and joint ventures, financing, distributorships, and jurisdictional challenges. Venetia was listed as Singapore’s 20 most influential lawyers aged 40 and under in 2018 by the Singapore Business Review, and is also recognised as one of Asia’s Super 50 Dispute Lawyers by the Asian Legal Business in 2021.

    Edwyna Ong Legal Associate at CNPLaw LLP
    Senior Associate

      Senior Associate
      Edwyna is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team. Her practice experience includes litigation and advisory work on international and local commercial disputes, in particular, disputes relating to foreign investments and joint ventures.


      At CNPLaw, our dispute resolution lawyers seek to provide support to our clients through the lifecycle of transactions. At the very beginning, we seek to mitigate risk and avoid disputes. However, should it transpire to the latter, our lawyers work closely with our clients to either resolve the matter through alternative dispute resolution matters like arbitration and mediation, or through litigating the matter, either in the civil or criminal courts. We have extensive legal experience at every level of the Singapore courts of justice, and our lawyers have appeared in a number of cases reported in the Singapore Law Reports.





        Practice Area: Dispute Resolution