Steven Chong | |
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庄泓翔 | |
Judge of the Court of Appeal of Singapore | |
Assumed office 1 April 2017 | |
Appointed by | Tony Tan |
Judge of the High Court of Singapore | |
In office 25 June 2014 –31 March 2017 | |
Appointed by | Tony Tan |
7th Attorney-General of Singapore | |
In office 25 June 2012 –24 June 2014 | |
Appointed by | Tony Tan |
Preceded by | Sundaresh Menon |
Succeeded by | V. K. Rajah |
Judge of the High Court of Singapore | |
In office 1 June 2010 –21 June 2012 | |
Appointed by | S. R. Nathan |
Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore | |
In office 1 October 2009 –31 May 2010 | |
Appointed by | S. R. Nathan |
Personal details | |
Born | Colony of Singapore | 22 September 1957
Alma mater | National University of Singapore (LLB) |
Steven Chong | |||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 庄泓翔 | ||||||
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Steven Chong Horng Siong SC (born 22 September 1957) is a Singaporean judge who has been serving as a judge of the Court of Appeal of Singapore since 2017. He had previously served as the seventh attorney-general of Singapore between 2012 and 2014,and a judge of the High Court of Singapore between 2010 and 2012,and again between 2014 and 2017.
Chong graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1982.
In that same year,Chong,together with Davinder Singh,V. K. Rajah and Jimmy Yim,won the Philip C. Jessup Cup.
Chong was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court in 1983. He was appointed Senior Counsel in January 1998,Judicial Commissioner in October 2009 and Supreme Court Judge in June 2010.
Chong started his legal practice at Drew &Napier,where he spent 14 years and built up his legal career from an associate to the joint Managing Partner. He then spent 12 years in Rajah &Tann and was its Senior Partner and then Managing Partner until his appointment to the Supreme Court Bench. He was a leading commercial lawyer during his practice and argued many cases in court. He was also a senior member of the Singapore arbitration community and participated in arbitration as both a counsel as well as an arbitrator. He is an accredited Arbitrator of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration. Chong was also Iceland's Honorary Consul to Singapore from 2003 to 2009.
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