Working as a team with instructed counsel from Essex Court Chambers Duxton (Singapore Group Practice) and Yu Law, Ark Law scored a resounding victory for our clients, an online options trading platform, and its founder and shareholder.

In a written decision dated 31 December 2020, the Singapore High Court struck out the plaintiff’s action against our clients. The Court held that it had no jurisdiction to hear the plaintiff’s claims for more than US$11 million our clients, and that Belize, and not Singapore, was the proper forum for the plaintiff to be pursuing his claims. In any event, the Court found that the evidence did not in fact bear out the plaintiff’s allegations of fraud or conspiracy.

The decision is reported as Chen Yun Hian Christopher v BHNV Online Ltd and others [2020] SGHC 284 and has also been the subject of media coverage.

Ark Law is a signatory to the Ministry of Communication and Information’s Digital Participation Pledge. Building on our commitment to leverage technology and harness tech-forward solutions to provide best-value legal advice to our clients, Ark Law has invested in diverse systems including CoreMatter, eFax, NetDocuments, SingTel BizVoice UC, Westlaw Asia and Zegal, which have enabled us to maintain a zero-disruption environment even with the institution of the Circuit Breaker and other COVID-related measures in Singapore.

For our efforts, Ark Law was accredited a SmartLaw member firm and is now a member of the Law Society’s SmartLaw Guild alongside other industry leaders.

The SmartLaw Recognition Scheme was launched on 1 March 2017 to recognise Singapore Law Practices such as Ark Law, which have adopted technology to improve productivity and increase business capabilities. 

For more information about the SmartLaw Recognition Scheme, please click here. 

Ark Law Corporation was featured in the Law Gazette’s article titled “Spotlight on Tech-celerate for Law: Breaking the Mould and Giving Back”, where our Managing Director Mr Eugene Low gave his thoughts on what it means to be a good lawyer, his vision for Ark Law and how Ark Law has heeded the call of the Ministry of Law for law firms to be
future-ready.

The article may be accessed at: https://lawgazette.com.sg/practice/tech-talk/tech-celerate-breaking-the-mould-giving-back/

Ark Law is committed to leveraging on technology and harnessing tech-forward solutions to provide best-value legal
advice to our clients. On 31 March 2020, Ark Law affirmed this commitment by becoming a signatory to the Ministry of Communications and Information’s Digital Participation Pledge.

Ark Law pledges to help Singapore to be digitally ready so that everyone can tap on opportunities to use technology
actively, meaningfully and safely in their daily living, to achieve better quality of life.

For more information about the Digital Participation Pledge, please click here.