Toh Kok Seng

Toh Kok Seng is a Senior Partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution and Intellectual Property departments at Lee & Lee in Singapore. His practice focuses on Property Law, with particular emphasis on strata title law and practice, property and personal injury claims, employment, intellectual property and technology.

In intellectual property matters, Toh was counsel in the first patent infringement and revocation case (V-Pile Technology v Peck Brothers) to be fully argued in the Singapore High Court. He argued the first reported registered design case (Nagasima Electronic Engineering Pte Ltd v APH Trading), and has prosecuted numerous criminal offences including offences under the Copyright Act and Trade Marks Act on the Public Prosecutor's fiat.

In property matters, Toh has acted for developers, sellers, purchasers and estate agents in disputes, and acted for a number of successful collective sales, successfully arguing against objections filed by various minority owners. He represents many management corporations, managing agents and subsidiary proprietors in strata disputes, and was invited by the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Building Maintenance and Management Bill to give evidence; a number of his proposals were accepted and implemented in the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act 2004.

He argued several landmark strata cases, including the High Point Condominium case, the One-North Residences case, the 19 Shelford Road case, the Leonie Towers case, the Watermark Robertson Quay case, the Alpha Industrial Building case and the Palm Gardens case, various provisions of the BMSMA being amended as a result. He is currently appointed by Enterprise Singapore as convenor of the working group on TR 76: Guidelines for Electronic Commerce Transactions, and is a member of the Central Committee of the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) and Chairperson of its Consumer Law Review Committee.

He graduated from the University of Singapore in 1988 and was admitted to the Singapore bar in 1989, becoming a Partner in 1996. He was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 2002 and is also a registered patent agent. He received a Friend of Labour Award in 2024.