Supreme Court judge appointed Deputy Attorney-General; 2-year term starts in Jan 2025
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Justice Goh Yihan has been appointed Deputy Attorney-General, and starts his term in January 2025.
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SINGAPORE - 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 at SMU 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 NUS, 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.
