Joshua Ho

Senior Associate

Joshua specialises in litigation and arbitration. He has significant experience in handling commercial disputes, construction disputes, fraud and asset recovery, trust disputes, contractual disputes and insurance disputes.

Joshua is able to take on factually and legally complex matters, and believes in providing strategic, practical and straightforward advice.

Joshua has appeared at all levels of the Singapore courts and various arbitration institutions, representing both institutional and individual clients.

During his free time, Joshua enjoys playing football, reading, karaoke and spending time with his family and friends.

Sample Cases

Civil & Commercial Disputes

• Acted for two state owned European energy companies and six European insurers in their claim against a Chinese vessel owner arising out of damage to a gas pipeline in the Gulf of Finland.

• Acted for C&D, a Chinese state owned company in a trading dispute relating to the sale and purchase of light cycle oil (ISU Specialty Chemical Co Ltd v C&D (Singapore) Business Pte Ltd [2024] SGHC 285).

• Acted for a multinational trading company in a contractual dispute relating to the sale and purchase of a material used in the manufacture of imitation cheese.

• Successfully defended a solicitor in respect of a statement of account sought from his former client (Rahman Mohammad Jillour v Paretam Singh s/o Kishen Singh (alias Pritam Singh Gill) [2021] SGHC 30).

• Acted for a facilities management company in a dispute relating to the wrongful discharge of foam and water by a fire alarm system in an airplane hangar.

• Acted for a high net worth individual in a contractual dispute relating to his purchase of a new yacht.

Insurance Disputes / Construction & Engineering

• Acted for an insurer in defending a claim made by the insured under a contractors all-risk policy in respect of the collapse of a boundary wall caused by the insured’s piling works.

• Acted for Etiqa Insurance Pte Ltd in relation to payment out of a secured sum under a performance bond (Goldbell Engineering Pte Ltd v Etiqa Insurance Pte Ltd (Range Construction Pte Ltd, third party) [2022] SGHC 1).

Insurance Disputes

• Acted for an insurer in defending a claim made by the insured under a marine cargo insurance policy for damage to a cargo of crane parts.

Construction & Engineering

• Acted for a Catalist board listed construction company in a dispute relating to the construction of a good class bungalow.

• Acted for a landowner and piling company sued for negligence and nuisance in respect of damage done to a neighbouring land due to piling works carried out on the landowner’s land.

• Acted for a firm of architects in a dispute relating to defects arising from their allegedly negligent design of a condominium.

Restructuring & Insolvency

• Advised an insurer on scheme of arrangement proposed by Pacific International Lines in respect of a debt of USD 5.2 million owed to them.

Property Ownership & Trust Disputes

• Successfully acted for the claimant in obtaining a declaration that the defendant was no longer a beneficiary of a trust deed after the execution of a fresh trust deed (Jethanand Hrkishindas Bhojwani v Lakshmi Prataprai Bhojwani (alias Mrs Lakshmi Jethanand Bhojwani) [2020] SGHC 216).

• Acted for the 1st defendant wherein a company partially owned by the 1st defendant applied to vary an order of court which ordered the 1st defendant to disclose documents relating to the company’s shares and finances (Shankar’s Emporium Pte Ltd and others v Jethanand Harkishindas Bhojwani and another [2020] SGHC 244).

Personal Injury & Accident

• Defended Grand Rich and Yuan Ji Enterprises in a trial against a claim brought by a former employee injured at a construction site. Successfully obtained indemnity costs against the claimant (Nagarajan Murugesan v Grand Rich Electrical & Engineering Pte. Ltd. and others [2023] SGDC 64).

• Defended ITW Construction and Hyundai-GS Joint Venture in an assessment of damages hearing for a claim brought by a former employee injured at a construction site (Muhammad Rahmatullah Bin Sudarman v ITW Construction Products (Singapore) Pte Ltd and another [2021] SGDC 176).

Selected Published Judgments

• ISU Specialty Chemical Co Ltd v C&D (Singapore) Business Pte Ltd [2024] SGHC 285

• Goldbell Engineering Pte Ltd v Etiqa Insurance Pte Ltd (Range Construction Pte Ltd, third party) [2022] SGHC 1

• Rahman Mohammad Jillour v Paretam Singh s/o Kishen Singh (alias Pritam Singh Gill) [2021] SGHC 30

• Jethanand Hrkishindas Bhojwani v Lakshmi Prataprai Bhojwani (alias Mrs Lakshmi Jethanand Bhojwani) [2020] SGHC 216

• Shankar’s Emporium Pte Ltd and others v Jethanand Harkishindas Bhojwani and another [2020] SGHC 244

• Nagarajan Murugesan v Grand Rich Electrical & Engineering Pte. Ltd. and others [2023] SGDC 64

• Muhammad Rahmatullah Bin Sudarman v ITW Construction Products (Singapore) Pte Ltd and another [2021] SGDC 176