[2] Mohamed Faizal subsequently received his LLM from Harvard Law School in 2009,[3] which he attended on Kathryn Worth Foundation and Legal Service Commission scholarships.
[2] His thesis written at Harvard Law School was awarded the Gold Medal Prize by the International Insolvency Institute.
[5] 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.
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.
[8][9] 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.
"[12] In July 2023, Mohamed Faizal was appointed as Judicial Commissioner in the Supreme Court of Singapore, and started his two-year term on 2 May 2024.
[22] He had held adjunct teaching positions in the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law[23] and has also been involved in numerous training initiatives, including mediation and negotiation courses.