Steven Chong

庄泓翔Judge of the Court of Appeal of SingaporeAssumed office
1 April 2017Appointed byTony TanJudge of the High Court of SingaporeIn office
25 June 2014 – 31 March 2017Appointed byTony Tan7th Attorney-General of SingaporeIn office
25 June 2012 – 24 June 2014Appointed byTony TanPreceded bySundaresh MenonSucceeded byV. K. RajahJudge of the High Court of SingaporeIn office
1 June 2010 – 21 June 2012Appointed byS. R. NathanJudicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of SingaporeIn office
1 October 2009 – 31 May 2010Appointed byS. R. Nathan Personal detailsBorn (1957-09-22) 22 September 1957 (age 66)
Colony of SingaporeAlma materNational University of Singapore (LLB)

Steven Chong
Simplified Chinese	庄泓翔
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhuāng Hóngxiáng

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.

Early life

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.

Career

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.

Chong was appointed Attorney-General on 25 June 2012, succeeding Sundaresh Menon.^[1] In April 2014 it was announced that he would return to Singapore's High Court at the conclusion of his two-year term,^[2] to be succeeded by Judge of Appeal V. K. Rajah.^[3]

References

External links

• Attorney-General's Chambers factsheet on the appointment of Justice Steven Chong as Attorney-General
• Steven Chong's profile at Rajah & Tann LLP