Liwen has been an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore since 2021. Her practice is in matrimonial law, civil and commercial litigation, and criminal defence.

She acts almost entirely for individuals. That means her clients are usually living through the matter rather than managing it from a distance, and are often dealing with a court for the first time in their lives. A good deal of the work is explaining what is about to happen to someone who is frightened of it, and doing that well matters as much to the outcome as anything filed.

Liwen works in English and Mandarin at native level. In family and criminal matters, where a client’s account of events is the case, it makes a real difference that they can give it in the language they think in rather than the one they are translating into.

Experience

• Assisted lead counsel in a contested probate action between family members over a child’s inheritance, resolved by mediation
• Contested applications concerning interim access to a child of the marriage
• Criminal defence work for a young person facing charges in the State Courts

Education

• Bachelor of Laws (Honours), Second Class (Upper Division), National University of Singapore, 2020

Admissions and Appointments

• Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, 2020

Languages

• English
• Mandarin

Outside the Office

Liwen plays script murder, the Mandarin-language murder mystery format, where she says the analysis is the same as at work but the stakes are considerably lower.