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Yong Pung How DUBC DUT (11 April 1926 – 9 January 2020) was a Malaysian-Singaporean jurist who served as the second chief justice of Singapore between 1990 and 2006.. After stepping down as chief justice, Yong served as the chancellor of the Singapore Management University between 2010 and 2015.
The Yong Pung How School of Law is one of the six schools of the Singapore Management University. It was set up as Singapore's second law school in 2007, 50 years after the NUS Faculty of Law and 10 years before SUSS School of Law .
1997 – Launch of Singapore Mediation Centre by former Chief Justice Yong Pung How. Commencement of stakeholding services for residential and commercial properties in Singapore. 2000 – Electronic Filing System is introduced in conjunction with LawNet's 10th anniversary. 2005 – Relocation of premises to the new Supreme Court building. The ...
Yong's son, Pung How, would later join the firm in 1952 after graduating with a double-first degree in law from his father's alma mater, initially practicing mostly criminal law. [1] Under the Pung How leadership as a senior partner, the firm grew to be one of the largest firms in Malaya.
The Singapore Management University (SMU) is a publicly-funded private university in Singapore. Founded in 2000, SMU is the third oldest autonomous university in the country, modelling its education after the Wharton School. [5] The university is triple accredited by AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA. In 2024, SMU was ranked 44th in the world for Business ...
The three judges - Chief Justice Yong Pung How, Justice S. Rajendran and Justice Goh Joon Seng - agreed that there was sufficient evidence to prove that Tan had the intention to stab Lee Juay Heng during the robbery bid, such that the injury caused was sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death, and it was neither accidental nor ...
However, the three-judge panel, consisting of Chief Justice Yong Pung How, High Court judge V K Rajah and Judge of Appeal Andrew Phang, were not convinced that McCrea was remorseful of his crimes and thus refused to reduce the sentence. Rather, the three-judge panel nearly considered increasing the jail term, which by maximum, could be raised ...
Chief Justice Yong Pung How, who was one of the three judges hearing the appeals, stated that as long as there was a murder committed by at least one out of the five or more participants during a gang robbery, there was no need to prove that every one of the perpetrators had the intent to cause death, based on the definition of gang robbery ...