ASEAN LAW ASSOCIATION: Office Holders

Chairman, ALA Singapore

The Honourable Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong

Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong was born in Perak, Malaysia in 1937. He was among the inaugural class of students to graduate from the Law Faculty of the University of Singapore in 1961 and was admitted to the Singapore Bar the following year. He practised law in Singapore and Malaysia for 24 years and rose to become the managing partner of Shook Lin and Bok in Singapore in 1984. On 1 July 1986 he was appointed a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court. He was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court in July 1988 in which capacity he served until his appointment as Attorney-General of Singapore in May 1992. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Republic of Singapore on 11 April 2006.

Chief Justice Chan was conferred the Order of Temasek (Second Class) by the Government of Singapore on 9 August 2008 for his outstanding contributions to Singapore. In the same month, he became the first Singaporean and local law graduate to become an honorary bencher of Lincoln’s Inn. On 21 November 2009, Chief Justice Chan became the first Asian jurist to be given the International Jurists Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the administration of justice. He is concurrently the President of the Legal Service Commission, Chairman of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights in Singapore, and President of the Singapore Academy of Law.