OUR AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Criminal Defence

We understand that if you find yourself the subject of criminal proceedings, it can be devastating and destabilising With the potential to affect your family and career.

Here at Peter Low Chambers LLC, we are committed to mounting a robust and thorough defence to any criminal charge brought against you. We are adept at handling criminal matters as diverse as document-intensive white collar crime to factually challenging sexual, drug and property offences.

We are committed to providing you with confident and fearless representation in the following areas of criminal law work: 

• • • Money laundering;
    • Corruption;
    • Cheating;
    • Criminal breach of trust;
    • Offences under the Securities and Futures Act 2001;
    • Offences under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act 1990;
    • Drug related offences;
    • Sexual offences; and
    • Road Traffic Offences.

 The firm has won industry recognition for its work. Our noteworthy cases include:

• • • Acting for a former employee of Nanyang Technological University in cheating and money laundering charges (2022)
    • Acted for a director against criminal charges for allegedly cheating SMRT into awarding contracts amounting to $10 million (2022)
    • Acted for former private banker of BSI Singapore involved in the 1MDB scandal (2017)
    • Acted for former senior-ranking official of Keppel Corporation in investigations relating to corruption (2016)
    • Successfully gained an acquittal of an alleged drug trafficker in a pro bono death penalty case, which is a landmark Court of Appeal decision relating to the Prosecution’s disclosure obligations: Muhammad Nabill bin Mohd Fuad v Public Prosecutor [2020] SGCA 25
    • Successfully gained an acquittal for Professor Tey Tsun Hang, a former law professor of the National University of Singapore, in the so-called “sex-for-grades” corruption case (2014)
    • Successfully gained an acquittal for an ex-national table tennis player from a criminal breach of trust charge (2014)
    • Defended the former principal (a member of a Catholic religious order) of a top Singapore school against a criminal breach of trust charge (2012 to 2013)