Elias is an associate in the Singapore office. He has judicial experience working on a wide spectrum of civil and commercial cases, including leading arbitration judgments from the Singapore Court of Appeal.
Prior to joining Three Crowns, Elias was a Justices Law Clerk to Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon and other Judges of the Supreme Court of Singapore. In that role, he assisted them in landmark cases on commercial and investor state arbitration. Thereafter, he served as an Assistant Registrar in the Supreme Court, where he adjudicated a wide range of civil matters, including contentious applications for the enforcement of international arbitral awards against a sovereign State.
Elias obtained his LLB from Singapore Management University where he graduated with a Summa Cum Laude (First Class equivalent) and numerous academic prizes such as the Michael Hwang Prize for the Top Student in International Commercial Arbitration. He also took part in various moot competitions including the Willem C Vis East and Vis Vienna, where his team emerged global champions and quarterfinalists respectively. Individually, Elias was also ranked amongst the top oralist of the competition. He has also published an article in the Journal of International Arbitration on curial intervention in public policy challenges against arbitral awards, which has been cited extra-judicially by Menon CJ in a lecture.
Bar and court admissions
Languages
English
Mandarin
Adjudicating numerous applications for the enforcement of arbitral awards addressing issues such as state immunity, misnomer situations, and the effect of a post-award settlement agreement on the enforcement rights of the award creditor
Assisting the Singapore Court of Appeal and High Court on a wide range of leading arbitration judgments, including cases on: (a) jurisdictional requirements in treaty-based investor state arbitration; (b) the interaction between peremptory orders and the enforcement of an international arbitral award; (c) infra petita challenges; (d) lack of proper notice challenges; (e) remission as an alternative remedy to setting aside an award; (f) curial review of an arbitral institution’s decision; (g) natural justice challenges
- LLB, Singapore Management University