Torsten Cheong

Experience

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  Singapore Army

  Apr 2010 - Feb 2012

  Infantry Officer
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  Attorney-General's Chambers, Singapore

  Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

  Deputy Public Prosecutor / State Counsel

  Prosecuted homicide, narcotics and sexual offences and advised Government agencies on offence-related legal issuesRepresentative cases:- Ng Kean Meng Terence v PP [2017] 2 SLR 449 (sentencing framework for rape)- Haliffie bin Mamat v PP [2016] 5 SLR 636 (totality principle)- PP v Sumanthiran s/o Selvarajoo - [2017] 3 SLR 879 (culpable homicide)

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  SG Courts

  Jan 2017 - Feb 2019

  Justices’ Law Clerk

  Assisted the Chief Justice and other judges of the Supreme Court in legal research and drafting, administrative tasks and speech-writing Representative cases:- PP v ASR [2019] 1 SLR 941 (sentencing intellectually disabled young offender)- UKM v A-G[2019] 3 SLR 874 (welfare principle in adoption of surrogate-born child by gay couple)- Lee Tat Development Pte Ltd v Management Corporation Strata Title Plan No 301 [2018] 2 SLR 866 (res judicata, tort of malicious prosecution)- JTrust Asia Pte Ltd v Group Lease Holdings Pte Ltd [2018] 2 SLR 159 (Mareva injunctions, abuse of process) Show less

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  Rajah & Tann Asia

  Feb 2019 - now

  Disputes lawyer with the Appeals & Issues practiceRepresentative cases:- Liew Kit Fah v Koh Keng Chew [2020] 1 SLR 275 (discount for minority shareholding in consensual buy-outs)- BP Singapore Pte Ltd v Jurong Aromatics Corp Pte Ltd [2020] 1 SLR 627 (decrystallisation of fixed charges)- AnAn Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd v VTB Bank (Public Joint Stock Co) [2020] 1 SLR 1158 (standard for disputing arbitrable debt to resist winding-up)- United Securities Sdn Bhd v United Overseas Bank Ltd [2021] 2 SLR 950 (first Court of Appeal decision on UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency) Show less

  • Partner

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Senior Associate

    Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Associate

    May 2019 - Dec 2020

  • Senior Legal Executive

    Feb 2019 - May 2019