Mohamed Faizal Mohamed Abdul Kadir

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SC (born 1980) is a Singaporean lawyer.

Education

Mohamed Faizal graduated from the

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with a

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in 2005. Mohamed Faizal subsequently received his

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from

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in 2009. His thesis written at

was awarded the

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Prize by the International Insolvency Institute.

Legal career

After graduation from the

, Mohamed Faizal served as a Justices' Law Clerk and Assistant Registrar of the

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. Mohamed Faizal is at the

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, where he was previously Deputy Chief

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and is now Second Chief

. He was also previously in the Singapore Medical Council. One of the cases managed by Mohamed Faizal was the prosecution of Gaiyathiri Murugayan for the abuse and murder of her Myanmar maid Piang Ngaih Don, who died in July 2016. Gaiyathiri was initially charged with intentional murder before the charge was reduced to culpable homicide not amounting to murder due to her psychiatric disorders; she also faced more than a hundred charges of causing various degrees of hurt (ranging from hurt to grievous hurt) to the maid. Mohamed Faizal sought the maximum sentence of

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(or at least 27 years' jail) for Gaiyathiri, labelling her conduct as cruel and heinous, describing the case of Piang's death as a shocking case without parallel. Gaiyathiri was in the end sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment on 22 June 2021. Mohamed Faizal was also involved in the appeal against the sentences of

Azlin Arujunah and Ridzuan Mega Abdul Rahman On 23 October 2016, a five-year-old boy was pronounced dead at a children's hospital in Singapore. He was found to have been a victim of child abuse by his parents Azlin binte Arujunah and Ridzuan bin Mega Abdul Rahman for months leading up to h ...

for the 2016 fatal abuse and murder of their five-year-old son; the couple were earlier acquitted of murder and sentenced to 27 years in prison for child abuse and causing grievous hurt.

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was appointed by the Court of Appeal as

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for the case. Mohamed Faizal successfully convinced the Court of Appeal to find Azlin guilty of murder and increase Ridzuan's sentence to life imprisonment on 12 July 2022. Although Mohamed Faizal argued for the death penalty, Azlin was sentenced to life imprisonment for her son's murder three months later by the Court of Appeal. Mohamed Faizal was also general editor of the Criminal Procedure Code of Singapore - Annotations and Commentary published in 2012.

Professional Appointments

Mohamed Faizal sits on the MUIS Appeal Board, the board of Advisory.SG and the Silent Heroes Awards. He was also on the

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of the New York International Law Review. Mohamed Faizal has also served on various committees such as the Committee for University Education Places 2015 and the Eldershield Review Committee. Mohamed Faizal is a principal

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with the

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. He had held adjunct teaching positions in the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and has also been involved in numerous training initiatives, including mediation and negotiation courses.

Awards

Mohamed Faizal received the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) in 2014. He also received the Association of Conflict Resolution's International Outstanding Leadership Award. Mohamed Faizal was awarded the President's Volunteerism & Philanthropy Award in 2015 by the President of Singapore for his work on developing scholarships for lower-income students. Mohamed Faizal also founded the Phoenix Grant at

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. In 2016, Mohamed Faizal was appointed as a

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by the

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. Mohamed Faizal is listed in

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, an annual international publication, as one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World. Mohamed Faizal was appointed

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in January 2020, the first Malay-Muslim in Singapore to be so appointed.{{Cite web , title=Senior state counsel named Berita Harian Achiever of the Year , url=https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/life-culture/senior-state-counsel-named-berita-harian-achiever-of-the-year , access-date=2022-05-25 , website=Business Times He received the

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Achiever of the Year Award that same year for his achievements in the legal profession and his contributions to community causes.

References

Living people National University of Singapore alumni Harvard Law School alumni Recipients of the Pingat Pentadbiran Awam Singaporean Senior Counsel 21st-century Singaporean lawyers 1980 births