Suang Wijaya is a lawyer who graduated with First Class Honours from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2014. Drawn to the firm’s commitment to access to justice and the upholding of fundamental liberties, he joined Eugene Thuraisingam LLP as a trainee and subsequently junior lawyer.
Wijaya has acted as lead counsel in various civil proceedings in the Singapore High Court. Amongst other cases, he has successfully litigated a dispute involving properties valued at SGD 1.3 million as well as defended a highly contested High Court suit involving alleged breaches of confidentiality.
Wijaya has acted in numerous criminal matters on a pro bono basis under the Legal Assistance Capital Offences (LASCO) scheme. Some of his reported LASCO cases include Prabagaran a/l Srivijayan v Public Prosecutor and other matters [2016] SGCA 67, Ilechukwu Uchechukwu Chukwudi v Public Prosecutor [2017] SGCA 44 and Nagaenthran a/k K Dharmalingam v Public Prosecutor and another appeal [2019] SGCA 37.
Wijaya was also one of the counsels who acted pro bono in a confidential case where a High Court Judge granted a couple permission to proceed with judicial review proceedings against the Government. In that case, the couple had sought to challenge the legality of the Registrar of Marriages’ purported voiding of the couple’s marriage, after one of them underwent sex reassignment surgery after their marriage had been solemnised and registered.