VK Rajah SC

Practice Areas

International Commercial Arbitration; Investor/State Disputes

Publications

Articles

How India Can Become An International Arbitration Hub, Bench and Bar, 25 February 2023

Article on Due Process “Paranoia”: Revisiting Misperceptions and Facts, (2022) 1 SIArbJ, 1-6 [pdf]

Article on W(h)ither Institutional Terms of Reference?, Journal of International Arbitration 39, no. 2 (2022): 163-184

Article on The Case For Singapore To Take The Lead In International Arbitration Ethics, (2018) 14 Asian International Arbitration Journal, Issue 1, pp 37

Article on Prosecution of financial crimes and its relationship to a culture of compliance in Comp. Law. 2016, 37(4), 122-129

Article on W(h)ither Adversarial Commercial Dispute Resolution? in Arbitr Int (2016) aiv075, published on 19 January 2016

Opinion Editorial on Financial crime: Leaders can instil spirit of compliance in The Business Times, 4 November 2015 at p25

Paper on The Incorporation of Technology in Court Advocacy in International Conference on Electronic Litigation, Academy Publishing, 2012 at p34

Article on Redrawing The Boundaries of Contractual Interpretation – From Text to Context to Pre-Text and Beyond, (2010) 22 SAcLJ 513

Article on Judicial Dynamism in International Trade in Hong Kong and Singapore – An Indivisible Link [comments], 40 Hong Kong L.J. 815 (2010)

Paper on Judicial Education in Singapore – Beyond The Horizon, Asia Pacific Courts Conference (3 October 2010)

Co-author of an article entitled: The current Status Of Corporate Governance In ASEAN and Challenges In Connection Therewith (18th Biennial Conference of LAWASIA 2003)

Paper delivered to Chairmen of Temasek Linked Companies on “Managing Shareholder Activism in Annual General Meetings – A Chairman’s Guide” (2002)

Co-author of an article entitled: Telecommunications Regulations in Singapore: Will the tortoise beat the hare? (4th LawAsia Business Law Conference 2000)

Co-author of an article entitled: Civil Consequences of Economic Crimes – Present & Future (International Economic Crime Conference 2000)

Article on “The Evolving Asian Legal Practice” [1999] 23 ABLR 42

Co-author of an article entitled: Choice of Law Clauses and the Limits on Party Autonomy (Current Legal Issues in International Commercial Litigation 1997)

Co-author of an article entitled: Re Charge Card, Problems, Practice and Statutory Reversal (1993) ABLR 87

Speeches

Speech at Opening of Legal Year 2015, Singapore

Speech at Opening of Legal Year 2016, Singapore

Speech at Opening of Legal Year 2017, Singapore

Commencement Speech at 2017 National University of Singapore, Law Faculty Commencement, 8 July 2017

Speech at 4th ICC India Arbitration Day 2021

Speech at 5th ICC India Arbitration Day 2022

Speech at 2nd IBA Litigation and ADR Symposium, New Delhi, 2023

Speech at APRAG Conference, Beijing, 2023

Speech at ICC Arbitration Day Malaysia, 2023

Speech at Delhi Arbitration Week, February 2023

Speech at Delhi Arbitration Week, March 2024

Committee Reports

Co-Chairperson of the Recommendations of the Committee for Family Justice on the framework of the family Justice system, 4 July 2014

Co-Chairperson of the Report of The Singapore International Commercial Court Committee, November 2013

Chairperson of the Report of the 4th Committee on The Supply of Lawyers, May 2013

Chairperson of the Report of the Committee to Develop The Singapore Legal Sector, September 2007

Work Highlights

Senior Counsel, Singapore, 1997 to-date

Judge, Supreme Court, Singapore, 2004 to 2007

Judge of Appeal, Supreme Court, Singapore, 2007 to 2014

Attorney-General, Singapore, 2014 to 2017

Vice President, ICC International Court of Arbitration, 2021 to-date