Personal bio
Janice is a partner in the Dispute Resolution Practice Group at Wong & Partners (member firm of Baker & McKenzie International) and heads the Construction and Engineering disputes team in Malaysia. Her portfolio includes adjudication, arbitration (international and domestic), mediation and litigation with appearances in all levels of the courts. In particular, Janice has advised and represented clients in arbitrations conducted in accordance with various institutionalised rules such as ICC, PAM, AIAC, SIAC, HKIAC and IEM and in ad hoc arbitrations, relating to projects in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, India, Hong Kong, Saudi, Sudan, Vietnam, Indonesia. Janice is a qualified Arbitrator, Adjudicator and Mediator. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Malaysia) (CIArb), Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators (MIArb), and the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution (AIADR). She is a qualified Adjudicator for adjudication disputes under the Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication ACT 2012 (CIPAA). She sits on the Asian International Arbitration Centre's (AIAC, previously known as KLRCA) panel of adjudicators and mediators and is empanelled with ICC, AIAC, MIArb, SIAC, HKIAC, JCAA and LCIA. Janice was the President of the Society of Construction Law and sits/ has sat on the committees of the Malaysian Bar Arbitration Committee, the Malaysian Bar Construction Committee, CIArb, WIBM (Women in Construction) amongst others. She also tutors in her spare time, being part of the Malaysian Bar Council Advocacy Training Committee and involved in initiatives such as the arbitration-in-practice workshops conducted by AIAC and CIArb. She was a graduate from Cambridge prior to being called to the Bar of England and Wales, Malaysia, and has served as a foreign counsel in Singapore.