Goh was called to the Singapore Bar in 2011. He had received the Order of Merit in the 2006 bar examinations. [1] In 2013,he became the youngest recipient of the Singapore Academy of Law's Singapore Law Merit Award. [2]
Academic career
Goh returned to the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law in 2008,where he was a teaching assistant until 2010. He was then appointed as an assistant professor from 2011 to 2014. [1]
Goh left NUS Law in June 2014. [3] He had received four university and faculty teaching awards in six years in NUS. [1]
Goh became an associate professor of law at the Singapore Management University School of Law in July 2014. He was also appointed associate dean (research) in January 2016. Over two years,he received two faculty teaching awards. [1]
Goh became the dean of SMU Law in July 2017,succeeding Yeo Tiong Min. He was appointed for a five-year term after "a [six-month] extensive and rigorous global search". At 35,he was the youngest person to become dean, [4] though he was already "a well-recognised and active expert in the legal profession". [2] In July 2019,Goh was appointed a full professor of law at SMU. When he was dean,Goh also argued for the need for legislation to curb online falsehoods in public hearings before the Select Committee on Fake News that eventually resulted in the creation of the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act. [5]
Legal career
After obtaining his LLB,Goh was deployed as a Justices' Law Clerk in the Supreme Court from 2006 to 2008. In 2008,he became a Senior Justices' Law Clerk,then served as an Assistant Registrar of the Supreme Court. [1]
Goh has served as amicus curiae to the Court of Appeal on numerous occasions. [1] The court has described his written and oral submissions as "comprehensive,elegantly expressed,and lucidly organised", [6] and as "models of clarity and conciseness". [7]
Goh was appointed senior counsel in January 2021. [8]
On 1 July 2022,Goh was appointed a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court for a two-year term. [9]
On 1 October 2023,Goh was appointed a Judge of the High Court. In his work in the High Court,his areas of focus were finance,securities,banking,complex commercial cases;corporate insolvency;company,trusts and insolvency;intellectual property or information technology;and tort claims. [10]
On 4 November 2024,it was announced that Goh will be resigning as a Judge and will be appointed a Deputy Attorney-General on 1 January 2025. [10] As Deputy Attorney-General,Goh argued in support of the constitutionality of the presumptions under the Misuse of Drugs Act. [11]
