Mr Rajah is presently
a Consultant of the Firm. He was one of the pioneer
batch of Senior Counsel who were appointed in
1997.
In 1998 Mr Rajah was appointed as member of the
Singapore Mediation Centre and in 2003 was appointed
as member of the Singapore International Arbitration
Centre. He has acted as a Chairman and sole arbitrator
in both domestic and international arbitrations
in Singapore and under ICC and UNCITRAL Rules.
He is a referee under the Ministry of Manpower
Industrial Arbitration Court. Mr Rajah has acted
as arbitrator in cases involving contract, commercial
and construction issues where the applicable law
has been other than Singapore law for example
Thai, Indian, Bangladeshi, Indonesian and English
law.
He has served as a Deputy Public Prosecutor and
Senior State Counsel whilst in the Singapore legal
service. He later served as a Judicial Commissioner
at the Singapore Supreme Court from 1991 to 1995
in the Singapore Judicial Service.
Before joining the Firm, Mr Rajah was leading
the Civil and Criminal sections of the Attorney-General’s
Chambers and was Director of the Singapore Legal
Aid Bureau. Mr. Rajah also served as President
for the Tribunal for the Maintenance of Parents
and as the Chairman of the Singapore Law Society
Committee on Guidance for the Legal Profession
on Anti-Money Laundering.
In his career as a litigator and an arbitrator,
Mr Rajah has written and contributed more than
twenty articles to the Malayan Law Journal and
to the Singapore Law Gazette. In October 2008
the Law Society of Singapore conferred on Mr KS
Rajah, Senior Counsel, the prestigious CC Tan
Award.
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