JTJB

Associate

BENAIAH LIM

Associate

BENAIAH LIM

  • LLB (Hons) – The University of Sheffield
  • Called to the Singapore Bar: 2022
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
- Neil Gaiman

More About Benaiah

Benaiah is an associate in the Shipping, International Trade & Logistics team at JTJB. His practice areas also include property, trust, shareholder, and employment disputes. He has experience working as legal counsel for a major oil and gas company, handling shipping and trading disputes for dirty petroleum products.

During his time at university, Benaiah was awarded the Maxwell Kohler Memorial Prize for being the top student in his penultimate year. He also won subject prizes for the Law of Obligations, Contract Law, and Advanced Contract Law.

Benaiah was a recipient of the prestigious COMBAR Scholarship, jointly awarded by the Commercial Bar Association and the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. His scholarship included an attachment with the Rt Hon Justice Leggatt (as he then was) in the English commercial courts, as well as a placement with a leading set of barristers’ chambers specialising in maritime disputes.

  • Acted for the purchasers in the landmark decision of Li Jialin & Anor v Wingcrown Pte Ltd [2024] SGCA 48 to successfully challenge the developer’s forfeiture of a deposit in an abortive condominium sale. The Court of Appeal also set out a revised framework for the common law “True Deposit Test”.
  • Successfully obtained a worldwide freezing injunction against defendants prohibiting the disposal of their assets worldwide up to a value of approximately S$2million in the High Court in aid of arbitration.
  • Acted as lead counsel to obtain summary judgment in the High Court for a C-suite employee for the sum of approximately S$300k on grounds that the company entered into an oral contract with the employee for special bonuses.
  • Acted for an investor in an SIAC arbitration against an investment company to recover the sum of approximately S$2million on the ground that the investments were a sham.
  • Acted for a multi-million-dollar company in a claim against a director, his wife, and their companies for breach of fiduciary duties, dishonest assistance, and conspiracy to injure.
  • Represented a joint beneficiary of an estate in a dispute regarding the sale of a shophouse worth S$4million which parties to the litigation jointly inherited years ago.
  • Successfully acted for clients in a highly contested deputyship application involving assets worth more than S$2million.
  • Member, The Law Society of Singapore
  • Member, Singapore Academy of Law

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