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In September 2008, a Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) survey reported Hong Kong and Singapore have the best judicial systems in Asia, with Indonesia and Vietnam the worst: Hong Kong's judicial system scored 1.45 on the scale (zero representing the best performance and 10 the worst); Singapore with a grade of 1.92, followed by ...
Chan Seng Onn was born in Singapore on 4 January 1954 as the youngest of three children, with two sisters. His mother was a housewife and his father worked as a sewage pump attendant. He studied at St Anthony's Boys' School and then St Joseph's Institution (SJI) where he did his GCE O-Level and A-Level exams. [ 4 ]
The Attorney-General's Chambers' offices at 1 Pickering Street, its home since 2013. The attorney-general of Singapore has two distinct roles: legal adviser to the Singapore Government and public prosecutor, [2] assisted by legal officers in the four divisions of the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC).
He was appointed a Deputy Public Prosecutor and State Counsel in the Attorney General's Chambers (AGC) and represented Singapore at several international negotiations including the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crime and the United Nations Development Programme to strengthen the legal capacity of Vietnam.
de Souza started his career in the Singapore Legal Service in 2002 as a Justice's Law Clerk to Chief Justice Yong Pung How.He served as Deputy Public Prosecutor and State Counsel at the Attorney-General's Chambers between 2004 and 2005 before becoming a Magistrate at the Subordinate Courts and Assistant Registrar at the High Court between 2005 and 2006.
The prosecution, led by Deputy Attorney-General Tai Wei Shyong and also comprising Chief Prosecutor Tan Kiat Pheng, Deputy Chief Prosecutor Jiang Ke-Yue, and Deputy Public Prosecutor Kelvin Chong, [7] presented Iswaran with 36 charges on 16 January 2024, [11] but ultimately proceeded with only 27 charges that were publicly announced at the ...
The Attorney-General of Singapore is also the public prosecutor. [23] [24] Deputy public prosecutors and Attorney-General Chambers staff act for the attorney-general. As the public prosecutor, the Attorney-General has prosecutorial discretion and may initiate, conduct or cease any criminal proceeding.
Tan served in the legal sector for 40 years. He started his career first as a Deputy Public Prosecutor and then as a Magistrate. [1] In 1973, he was appointed as the head of the Crime Division of the Attorney-General's Chambers. He was then appointed as the President of the Industrial Arbitration Court from 1988 to 1991.