Supreme Court judge appointed Deputy Attorney-General; 2-year term starts in Jan 2025

Supreme Court judge and former law don Goh Yihan has been appointed Deputy Attorney-General for a two-year term that will start in January 2025.

He will resign from his judicial position on Jan 1, 2025 before taking on his new appointment.

Before he became a judge, Justice Goh taught at the Yong Pung How School of Law in the Singapore Management University from 2014, before becoming dean from 2017 to 2022.

Earlier in his career, he was a justices’ law clerk, and he also served as assistant registrar at the Supreme Court.

He holds a first-class honours degree in law from the National University of Singapore, was called to the Singapore Bar in 2011, and was appointed senior counsel in January 2021.

Justice Goh’s work includes a focus on finance, securities, banking, complex commercial cases, and intellectual property or information technology.

He is a board member at the Singapore Judicial College and Singapore Institute of Legal Education, and also co-chairs the Singapore Academy of Law legal research and publications committee, among other things.

Justice Goh will join a team that includes Deputy Attorneys-General Lionel Yee, Tai Wei Shyong and Ang Cheng Hock.

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