The Bar Council Advocacy Training Committee is delighted to host Faisel Sadiq, an English Barrister who lives with a disability and thrives in the profession. Moderated by Lavinia Kumarendran and Andrew Chiew, Faisel will help us navigate the prejudices and societal perception of the consummate litigator. Join our speaker and engage in a discussion to explore a path less travelled.
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
The Bar Council Advocacy Training Committee is delighted to host Faisel Sadiq, an English Barrister who lives with a disability and thrives in the profession. Moderated by Lavinia Kumarendran and Andrew Chiew, Faisel will help us navigate the prejudices and societal perception of the consummate litigator. Join our speaker and engage in a discussion to explore a path less travelled.
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Faisel Sadiq’s practice focuses on property and chancery litigation. His property work covers all aspects of landlord and tenant work (both commercial and residential), real property (including mortgages, boundary disputes, easements, restrictive covenants and overage agreements), planning and regulatory work as well as professional negligence claims against property professionals. He also handles trusts of
land disputes.
Faisel is ranked as a “Leading Junior” in The Legal 500. He is a committee member of the Property Bar Association (“PBA”) and representative to the Bar Council. He is also Vice-Chairperson of the Bar Council Equality, Diversity and Social Mobility Committee, Chairperson of the Bar Council Disability Panel, a bencher and an advocacy trainer for Inner Temple, and a member of the Inns of Court College of Advocacy’s International Committee.
Moderators
Lavinia Kumaraendran was admitted as a Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln’s Inn) in 2003 and to the High Court of Malaya in 2005. She holds a Master’s Degree in Commercial Law. Lavinia’s practice primarily focuses on corporate litigation, particularly advising shareholders, directors and companies on a broad range of shareholder disputes and boardroom battles. She also acts for liquidators, receivers and managers in complex insolvency and financial restructuring and corporate rescue matters, including schemes of arrangement and judicial management exercises. Aside from the area of practice in corporate litigation and contentious liquidation, her commercial litigation experience
includes contentious probate and trust actions. She frequently appears as solicitor and counsel in the High Court and Appellate Courts in Malaysia.
As an litigator, Lavinia is an active member of the Bar Council Advocacy Training Committee, having trained advocates in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa and Mumbai.
Andrew Chiew is a partner at Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill. He has experience in the areas of bank liability, civil fraud, corporate insolvency and restructuring as well as money laundering. He acts for various financial institutions on financing obligations and security enforcement, involving conventional and Islamic financing, and asset recovery.
Andrew is a member of the Bar Council Advocacy Training Committee. He actively conducts advocacy training not just in Malaysia but also in other countries, having had stints in Australia, Ireland, United Kingdom, Singapore, and South Africa.
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