IT Law Series 2025: Legal and Regulatory Issues with Artificial Intelligence

Vikneswaran is a Senior Manager in the AI Governance and Safety team at the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), where he is currently seconded. His work focuses on improving the safety and trustworthiness of the generative AI ecosystem. This includes publishing a catalogue of large language model evaluation techniques, working with third-party testers and industry partners to test generative AI applications, and collaborating with international counterparts on joint model testing efforts.

Vikneswaran is also a member of the Technology Law Cluster in the Singapore Legal Service, where he works on legal issues relating to AI, such as the copyright implications of using protected works for model training.

Darshini is a manager in the AI Governance and Safety Team (Data Innovation & Protection Group) in IMDA. Her work includes the formulation and implementation of policies relating to AI governance and ethics as well as data protection. She also engages ecosystem stakeholders on collaboratively building evaluation and testing capabilities for generative AI, including designing and implementing sandboxes. Darshini is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Singapore Bar.

Prior to joining IMDA, she was a State Counsel at the Attorney-General’s Chambers where she advised on data protection issues. Darshini also has an LL.M. in Law & Technology and served as a Justices’ Law Clerk in the Supreme Court.

Dr Stanley Lai is a Senior Counsel who specialises in all forms of IP litigation/arbitration and information technology disputes and is also a commercial litigator, Arbitrator and Mediator. He maintains a strong advisory practice for IP/data management and cybersecurity, serving a broad spectrum of clients. In the sphere of artificial intelligence, Stanley continues to advise clients on issues relating to intellectual property, data protection, content regulation as well as legal technology.  As a veteran Intellectual Property lawyer, Stanley currently serves as the Deputy President of the Copyright Tribunal and sits on the panel of Arbitrators in the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, specializing in intellectual property disputes.  He is an author of many published journal articles and was the first Singapore born lawyer to be conferred a PhD by the University of Cambridge (UK) in 1999.  Stanley was formerly the Chairman of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS).  He was awarded the Public Service Medal (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat) in 2020, and the Public Service Star (Bintang Bakti Masyarakat) in 2024.  On 31 August 2022, Stanley was awarded the Singapore Academy of Law Merit Award.

Justice Aidan Xu @ Aedit Abdullah was appointed Judicial Commissioner in 2014 and High Court Judge in 2017.

Justice Xu holds degrees in law and public management from the National University of Singapore (NUS), and obtained the BCL from Oxford University.

He began his working life as a Justices’ Law Clerk in 1997.  He then taught at the Faculty of Law, NUS, before re-joining the Singapore Legal Service, where he has held various appointments, including as Chief Prosecutor at the Attorney-General’s Chambers. He has also been seconded to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) twice.  He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2012.

Currently, he is the Judge in charge of Transformation and Innovation in the Judiciary, and is also Chair of the Promotion of Legal Technology Innovation Committee of the Singapore Academy of Law.

Rajesh Sreenivasan is a Partner and Head of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Law Practice at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP and the Coordinating Partner for the firms’ multidisciplinary and cross-practice Data and Digital Economy (DDE) Legal Services.  He is a Director and Co-founder of Rajah & Tann Technologies Pte Ltd and Rajah & Tann Cybersecurity Pte Ltd which are the Legaltech arms of Rajah & Tann Asia.  Rajesh has been at the forefront of legal, regulatory and policy matters relating to data protection, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data analytics and governance, telecommunications, electronic commerce, cloud computing, distributed ledger technologies, digital forensics and digital media in the region. He and his regional Partners have since built a team of over 50 specialist TMT lawyers with significant depth across South East Asia.

With over 20 years in practice, he has been universally recognised as the leading technology, media and telecoms lawyer in Singapore by all major professional ranking agencies and noted as one of the top TMT lawyers the Asia Pacific region. Rajesh entered The Legal 500’s esteemed Hall of Fame for TMT practitioners in the 2024 edition of the Asia Pacific Guide, and was recently named Lawyer of the Year for Telecommunications Law by Best Lawyers 2025. As the best of the best, he has also been consistently lauded as a Global Elite Thought Leader in Data and Telecoms & Media by the Lexology Index, standing among the top 5% of lawyers listed.  Recently, Rajesh was recognised in Asia Business Law Journal's Singapore Top 100 Lawyers' A-List as a top performer in the nation's legal profession.

Rajesh is the only Singapore lawyer serving on the Legal Advisory Group to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) UK Centre for Digital Trade and Innovation. As an appointed member of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) OECD project from 2022, he contributes actively to the multinational initiative by providing a representative deep dive into Singapore’s legislations on Artificial Intelligence and brainstorming on innovative best practices in complying with global regulatory guidelines.

Internationally, he sits on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Legal Innovation, College of Law, Australia, the Advisory Board of the Future Privacy Forum (FPF), Washington, DC and is an officer of the Media Law Committee of the International Bar Association. On a pro-bono basis, he serves on the Board of Trustees of the Sree Narayana Mission and is a member of the School Management Committee of Montfort Schools.

He has written numerous articles and contributed book chapters highlighting the interplay between IT and the law in areas such as IT law, harmonisation of ICT legislation, telecoms law, biotechnology and digital forensics He is the co-author of the Hansard Banking Volume 12 (2022) on electronic banking issues and most recently a contributing author to “Law and Technology in Singapore” (Second Edition) 2025.

Mr Paul McClelland specialises in intellectual property law and commercial dispute resolution. Before joining IPOS International Pte Ltd, Paul was sole corporate counsel for a well-known Singaporean brand, where he was responsible for a broad range of commercial matters, including worldwide trademark registrations and oppositions, management of external counsel, contract review, and training. 

He has experience working in private practice for both Singapore and Scottish law firms. His practice focused on intellectual property and commercial arbitration. 

He also taught commercial law, intellectual property and real estate law at a Scottish university.