Overview

Serene Hiew graduated from Oxford Brookes University in 2009 and was called to the English Bar (the Honourable Society of Inner Temple) in 2010. Upon returning to Malaysia, she commenced her pupillage at Skrine and was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court in 2011. She is now an associate with the Construction & Engineering Practice Group at Skrine.

Further Details

Areas of Practice
Arbitration & Alternative Dispute Resolution, Contracts, Construction & Engineering, Corporate & Commercial Dispute

Qualifications
Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya

Barrister-at-Law (Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn)

LLB (hons) University of Oxford Brookes

Experience

Civil

• Acted as Junior Counsel for a local developer in a dispute concerning the issuance of strata titles and maintenance charges
• Assisted in an action for injunctive reliefs in a defamation suit
• Acting as Junior Counsel for a local developer in an action for  breach of contract
• Assisting in a dispute concerning the design, construction and completion of a free zone port involving a claim of more than RM1 billion
• Acting as Junior Counsel for a main contractor against various defendants concerning the design, construction, and completion of a crib wall

Criminal

• Assisted in advisory matter relating to inquiry of death and exhumation of body