A veteran of the legal service, Mr Jeffrey Chan, who retired last week as principal senior consultant at the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC), was a man of several firsts.
He was the first President's Scholar to read law in 1969 and, after joining the Singapore Legal Service, the first to be awarded a scholarship to get a master's in law at Harvard University in 1981.
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