Description
CPD Direct Access is a mentorship programme which aims to help young lawyers achieve their potential through guidance and constructive feedback from senior lawyers who would support them in their professional development and personal growth. Each session will feature different mentors who will offer opportunities for young lawyers to expand
their knowledge and network with diverse practice areas. Mentorship is a reciprocal process, where both mentors and mentees are able to learn from each other. Mentees learn from the experiences and knowledge of their mentors while mentors learn to see from the mentees’ perspectives.
Come and join us in this live webinar session of CPD Direct Access!
Speaker
Andrew Heng
Andrew Heng is a senior partner at Zain Megat & Murad, where he leads the firm’s construction and energy practice group. He provides litigation and advisory services to clients across various sectors, including construction, infrastructure, renewable energy,environmental, banking and insurance, property development and manufacturing. Andrew represents clients in construction disputes through arbitration, adjudication and court proceedings. His experience covers applications under the Arbitration Act 2005 and the Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012, as well as
restraining demands on performance bonds and handling construction-related tortious claims such as professional negligence,occupiers’ liability, nuisance, and trespass. Andrew has experience managing disputes related to infrastructure
projects including airports, highways, rail systems, waste-to-energy plants, large-scale solar facilities, solid waste treatment plants, wastewater treatment facilities and electrical transmission towers.In addition, he advises both international and local clients on compliance of regulatory requirements set by the Construction Industry Development Board (“CIDB”).Andrew is empanelled as an arbitrator and adjudicator with the Asian International Arbitration Centre (“AIAC”) as well as a mediator with the Malaysian International Mediation Centre (“MIMC”).
He is also a founding member of the ESG ADR Forum’s Steering Committee, serving as the director of its Professional Advancement and Community Engagement (“PACE”) Initiative.Andrew holds a Bachelor of Law from the University of London and a Master of Law from the University of Northumbria. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2006 and subsequently admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2008. He is also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Puteri Shehnaz Majid
Puteri Shehnaz Majid was admitted as an advocate and solicitor to the High Court of Malaya in 2003 and is a partner of the firm Cheah Teh Su. She has an active practice in dispute resolution, focusing on corporate and commercial law and construction law. She regularly acts as lead counsel in the High Court and appellate courts. Her practice includes non-contentious advisory work, pre-litigation / pre-arbitration management of disputes, and hands-on conduct of legal / arbitral proceedings from start to finish. Shehnaz is a trial lawyer who believes that litigation is the last resort. In her experience, she has learned that more often than not, disputes can be resolved amicably and cost-effectively.
Gregory Das
Gregory Das is a partner at Cyrus Das. His practice has a particular emphasis on public and administrative
law, contractual disputes and litigation related to property development and land acquisition. Gregory is the author of The Law and Practice of Judicial Review in Malaysia, which is the first practitioner’s text exclusively on the law of
judicial review in Malaysia. He is a member of the Bar Council. He is also the Chairperson of the Bar Council Publications Committee, the Co-Deputy Chairperson of the Bar Council Constitutional Law Co-Deputy Chairperson of the Bar Council Constitutional Law Committee and the Co-Deputy Chairperson of the Bar Council Strategic Litigation Committee.
Gregory is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Malaysia Inner Temple Alumni Association and is a former Vice-President of the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators. Gregory read law at the University of Bristol and graduated with an LLB (Hons) degree in 2010. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Inner Temple in 2011. He was thereafter admitted as an advocate and solicitor to the High Court of Malaya in 2012.
Moderator
Richard Wee is the Chairperson of the Bar Council Professional Standards and Development Committee.
Terms and Conditions
Event Policy
Places are limited and registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.
The registration for this session will close on 22 Apr 2025 (Tuesday), at 12:00 pm.
For events with registration fees, all payments must be made in advance, including bank charges.
Registration will be confirmed once proof of payment is provided by email or fax, and full payment is received.
The organiser reserves the right to modify, cancel or postpone the event, should circumstances arise that make such action necessary, whereupon all registration fees paid will be refunded.
Cancellation
Cancellations must be made in writing.
Please note that there will be no refunds for cancellations, but substitutions are allowed. Kindly inform us in writing with the relevant details at least three days in advance.
If you have failed to inform the organiser on your cancellation for three consecutive times, you may be blacklisted for future events.
Transferal
You are allowed to transfer your place to another participant, but you must notify the organiser with
the necessary details at least three days in advance.
Attendance
CPD points for CPD Scheme will not be awarded to lawyers and pupils in chambers from Peninsular
Malaysia who arrive more than 15 minutes late, are not present throughout the event, or leave before
its scheduled end.
Privacy
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used, recorded, stored, disclosed or otherwise processed by or on behalf of the Bar Council for the
purposes of facilitation and organisation of this event, research and audit, maintenance of a
participant database for the promotion of this event, and such ancillary services as may be relevant.
Disclaimer
Materials (if any) will be emailed only. No printed notes will be provided.
No recording of the event is permitted via any means at any time.
No part of the event content may be used / reproduced in any form without the written and
explicit consent of the Bar Council and speaker(s).
