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Lok Vi Ming, SC is a partner in Rodyk & Davidson LLP's Litigation & Arbitration Practice Group and heads the firm's Aviation Practice. He was appointed Senior Counsel in January 2005.

Vi Ming is an internationally recognised aviation lawyer and is also experienced in ship mortgage enforcement matters. Vi Ming is recognised in international publications as a leading international insurance lawyer and has distinguished himself by pioneering what is widely recognised as the leading aviation insurance practice in Singapore. He is consistently named in recent consecutive editions of the International Who's Who of Aviation Lawyers. Vi Ming is also featured in Euromoney Legal Media's Guide to the World's Leading Insurance and Reinsurance lawyers. Vi Ming is immediate past chairman of the Aerospace Committee of the Inter Pacific Bar Association and is on the International Advisory Panel of the Registry of Aircraft Parts established under the Cape Town Convention.

Vi Ming has been involved in every major litigation in Singapore relating to aviation law in recent years. He successfully defended Silk Air in the MI 185 crash and led the defence team for Singapore Airlines in the SQ 006 lawsuits in Singapore. He succeeded in his client's defence in the Slim 10 case, a landmark decision on product liability litigation in Singapore. Vi Ming's cases have been reported in more than 60 decisions in local and regional law reports and publications.

A Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, he has been appointed to the Regional Panel of Arbitrators with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. He is a Fellow of the Singapore Academy of Law and is on the committee for the International Promotion of Singapore Law. Vi Ming has been appointed by the Honourable Chief Justice as a member of the Disciplinary Committee Chairmen convened to hear complaints into the conduct of lawyers. In early 2008, he was appointed to the Panel of Arbitrators for Sports Arbitration of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and to the Council of the Law Society of Singapore. He is recently appointed as legal assessor to the Singapore Pharmacy Council.

Vi Ming is editor and consultant to various publications including Modern Advocacy: Perspectives From Singapore and the Supreme Court Practice, and a contributing writer to Singapore Forms and Precedents.

Vi Ming, a church elder, is chairman of Bethesda Care & Counselling Services Centre, a charity which serves underprivileged families. He chairs the Advisory Board of Temasek Junior College and has lectured at the aviation law course at the National University of Singapore and at the Singapore Aviation Academy.

Vi Ming is one of the private practitioners who help the Singapore Academy of Law to promote Singapore Law for dispute resolution, with companies in China. In this area, since arbitration is the main focus, the team also works closely with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre.