Under the Constitution of Singapore,the judicial system of Singapore is divided into the Supreme Court which comprises the Court of Appeal and the High Court,and the subordinate courts,namely the State Courts and Family Justice Courts.
The Supreme Court of Nepal is the highest court in Nepal. It has appellate jurisdiction over decisions of the seven High Courts and extraordinary original jurisdiction. The court consists of twenty Justices and one Chief Justice.
The High Court of Singapore is the lower division of the Supreme Court of Singapore,the upper division being the Court of Appeal. The High Court consists of the chief justice and the judges of the High Court. Judicial Commissioners are often appointed to assist with the Court's caseload. There are two specialist commercial courts,the Admiralty Court and the Intellectual Property Court,and a number of judges are designated to hear arbitration-related matters. In 2015,the Singapore International Commercial Court was established as part of the Supreme Court of Singapore,and is a division of the High Court. The other divisions of the high court are the General Division,the Appellate Division,and the Family Division. The seat of the High Court is the Supreme Court Building.
The Court of Appeal of Singapore is the highest court in the judicial system of Singapore. It is the upper division of the Supreme Court of Singapore,the lower being the High Court. The Court of Appeal consists of the chief justice,who is the president of the Court,and the judges of the Court of Appeal. The chief justice may ask judges of the High Court to sit as members of the Court of Appeal to hear particular cases. The seat of the Court of Appeal is the Supreme Court Building.
Yong Pung How was a Malayan-born Singaporean judge who served as the second chief justice of Singapore between 1990 and 2006.
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Belinda Ang Saw Ean is a Singaporean judge of the Court of Appeal. Ang received her Bachelor of Laws from the University of Wales,Aberystwyth in 1976 and her Master of Laws from the University College London. She was appointed Judicial Commissioner in February 2002,Judge of the Supreme Court in January 2003,Judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in January 2021,and Justice of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court in November 2022. Prior to these appointments,she joined Godwin &Co in 1980 and was made junior partner in 1983. She founded Ang &Partners in 1985,and was appointed Senior Counsel in 1998. She is a member of the senate and executive committee of the Singapore Academy of Law,and is chairperson of the Singapore Mediation Centre.
Tan Cheng Han is a Singaporean lawyer and legal academic. Until 2012,he was the dean of the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law,where he taught contract law and company Law and directed the EW Barker Centre for Law &Business. From 2019 to 2022,he was the dean of the City University of Hong Kong School of Law and the chair professor of commercial law. He was also a consultant at TSMP Law Corporation. In August 2012,he was appointed the inaugural chairman of Singapore's new Media Literacy Council.
The judicial officers of the Republic of Singapore work in the Supreme Court and the State Courts to hear and determine disputes between litigants in civil cases and,in criminal matters,to determine the liability of accused persons and their sentences if they are convicted.
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Her Ladyship JusticeGertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo is a Ghanaian judge. She was nominated to the Supreme Court in November 2019 and received parliamentary approval in December 2019. She was sworn in on 17 December 2019. She was one of the first Justices of the Commercial Division of the High Court and has been active in the core reform agenda and activities of the Judiciary and Judicial Service of Ghana since 2005. She was nominated to the office of Chief Justice in April 2023 to replace Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah who retired as Chief Justice on May 24,2023. She was sworn into office as the 15th Chief Justice of Ghana on 12 June 2023.
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