Biography
Graduated from the University of Singapore in 1965 and joined the Singapore Legal and Judicial Service serving as Deputy Registrar, Industrial Arbitration Court and as State Counsel and Deputy Public Prosecutor. Resigned from the Singapore Legal and Judicial Service in 1966 and joined the International Labour Office (an agency of the United Nations in Geneva). Returned to Singapore in 1971 and has been practicing since in conveyancing, company law, commercial law, banking, insurance and labour law.
Served as Vice Chairman, Mandatory Aftercare Advisory Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs; member of the Singapore National Committee of the Asean Law Association; Governing Council Member and Chairman of the Legal Information Committee of the Asean Law Association; Member, Criminal Law Advisory Committee (Review); Alternate chairman, Criminal Law Advisory Committee (Hearing); Referee, Industrial Arbitration Court; Chairman, Business Law Committee of the Asean Law Association; President, Rotary Club of Jurong Town; Charter President, Rotary Club of Raffles City; Chairman, NTUC Travel Pte. Ltd., Tuan Sing Holdings Ltd. and SPP Ltd and as Director and Audit Committee Chairman in other public listed companies as well as Member, Tribunal for the Maintenance of Parents; Board member, World Trade Centre Club and Honorary Member of the International Organisations Business Association.
Professional Qualifications and Membership
- Admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore (1971)
