Full Profile
Shao Inn qualified as an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore with a wide-ranging general litigation practice including debt collection, divorce and family work, and local authority prosecutions. She relocated to the UK over 15 years ago and currently has a broad experience of insurance-based claims involving a range of professionals, including solicitors, barristers, surveyors and valuers. Her experience also extends to dealing with policy coverage advice, regulatory and disciplinary matters, and also matters involving costs and debt recovery, and enforcement.
In 2016 and 2017, Shao Inn undertook a successful and interesting secondment where she dealt with notifications and claims against barristers on varied issues ranging from fee disputes, negligence, poor service and misconduct.
Shao Inn will work hard to secure the most favourable outcome for the client, whether this involves taking a tough but commercial approach to settlement negotiations and ADR, creative and unconventional steps to resolve disputes, or seeing a case through to a preliminary issue or full hearing, and to costs recovery and enforcement. She has a particular interest in property-based disputes, and in issues involving limitation and contribution.
Experience
- Successfully defending solicitors alleged to have mishandled matrimonial proceedings (case having proceeded from the County Court through to the Court of Appeal, and thereafter to costs assessment proceedings and enforcement).
- Successfully defending a barrister alleged to have failed to properly conduct a claim at trial (currently before the appeal court).
- Successfully defending a barrister on jurisdictional grounds for invalid and ineffective service.
- Successfully defending a solicitor at a preliminary issue trial on limitation.
- Successfully securing the recovery of pre-action and costs of proceedings for clients following an abandoned claim.
- Defending valuers and surveyors in relation to claims involving building defects or under/over-valuation.
- Defending solicitors in relation to claims involving underlying conveyancing transactions; issues include property defects, deeds of trust, mortgage finance .
- Defending IT professionals in relation to claims involving website design, and the supply of support services.
- Defending property professionals including managing agents, estate agents on issues relating to breach of contract and negligence.
- Pursuing debt recovery and other enforcement action on behalf of professionals.
