Goh Yihan (born 1981) is a Judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore. He was previously a Judicial Commissioner, and, before that, the Dean of the Singapore Management University School of Law.[1]
Goh Yihan | |
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吴亦涵 | |
| Judge of the High Court of Singapore | |
| Assumed office 1 October 2023 | |
| Appointed by | Halimah Yacob |
| Judicial Commissioner of Singapore | |
| In office 1 July 2022 – 30 September 2023 | |
| Appointed by | Halimah Yacob |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1981 (age 42–43) |
| Nationality | Singaporean |
| Alma mater | |
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| Simplified Chinese | 吴亦涵 | ||||||
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Education
editGoh graduated from the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law with a first class honours LLB in 2006 as the valedictorian. He also topped his second-year examinations and was on the NUS Undergraduate Scholarship. At the 2004 B. A. Mallal Moot, he won both the best oralist and best memorial prizes.[1]
Goh obtained his LLM from Harvard Law School in 2010. He had received the NUS University Overseas Scholarship in 2009 to pursue his postgraduate studies.[1]
Career
editGoh was called to the Singapore Bar in 2011. He had received the Order of Merit in the 2006 bar examinations.[1] In 2013, he became the youngest recipient of the Singapore Academy of Law's Singapore Law Merit Award.[2]
Academic career
editGoh returned to the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law in 2008, where he was a teaching assistant until 2010. He was then appointed as an assistant professor from 2011 to 2014.[1]
Goh left NUS Law in June 2014.[3] He had received four university and faculty teaching awards in six years in NUS.[1]
Goh became an associate professor of law at the Singapore Management University School of Law in July 2014. He was also appointed associate dean (research) in January 2016. Over two years, he received two faculty teaching awards.[1]
Goh became the dean of SMU Law in July 2017, succeeding Yeo Tiong Min. He was appointed for a five-year term after "a [six-month] extensive and rigorous global search". At 35, he was the youngest person to become dean,[4] though he was already "a well-recognised and active expert in the legal profession".[2]
In July 2019, Goh was appointed a full professor of law at SMU.
Legal career
editAfter obtaining his LLB, Goh was deployed as a Justices' Law Clerk in the Supreme Court from 2006 to 2008. In 2008, he became a Senior Justices' Law Clerk, then served as an Assistant Registrar of the Supreme Court.[1]
Goh has served as amicus curiae to the Court of Appeal on numerous occasions.[1] The court has described his written and oral submissions as "comprehensive, elegantly expressed, and lucidly organised",[5] and as "models of clarity and conciseness".[6]
Goh was appointed senior counsel in January 2021.[7]
On 1 July 2022, Goh was appointed a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court for a two-year term.[8]
On 1 October 2023, Goh was appointed a Judge of the High Court. In his work in the High Court, his areas of focus were finance, securities, banking, complex commercial cases; corporate insolvency; company, trusts and insolvency; intellectual property or information technology; and tort claims.[9]
On 4 November 2024, it was announced that Goh will be resigning as a Judge and will be appointed a Deputy Attorney-General on 1 January 2025.[9]
Professional appointments and awards
editGoh is a board member of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education and the Singapore Judicial College.[4] He is also a visiting academic at Rajah & Tann.[1]
Selected works
edit- Andrew B L Phang and Goh Yihan, Contract Law in Singapore (Alphen aan den Rijn: Wolters Kluwer, 2012)
- Goh Yihan, Singapore Chronicles: Law (Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies-Straits Times Press, 2015)
- Alvin See, Yip Man and Goh Yihan, Property and Trust Law in Singapore (Alphen aan den Rijn: Wolters Kluwer, 2018)
- Goh Yihan, The Interpretation of Contracts in Singapore (Singapore: Thomson Reuters, 2018)
- Goh Yihan, Pursuing Justice and Justice Alone: The Heart and Humanity of Andrew Phang’s Jurisprudence (Singapore Academy of Law, 2022)
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "GOH Yihan". Singapore Management University. 3 July 2017.
- ^ a b K C Vijayan (23 February 2017). "Goh Yihan will be youngest dean to head SMU law school from July". The Straits Times. Singapore.
- ^ Vanessa Chiam (9 April 2014). "Interview with Asst Professor Goh Yihan". Justified. Singapore.
- ^ a b K C Vijayan (22 February 2017). "SMU to get new law school dean; youngest to hold the post". The Straits Times. Singapore.
- ^ ACB v Thomson Medical Pte Ltd Archived 2017-07-27 at the Wayback Machine [2017] 1 SLR 918 at [17].
- ^ Re Nalpon Zero Geraldo Mario Archived 2017-08-28 at the Wayback Machine [2013] 3 SLR 258 at [72].
- ^ "Dean of SMU law school among three new Senior Counsel appointed", Straits Times, 11 January 2021.
- ^ Auto, Hermes (2022-03-25). "New Judge, Judicial Commissioners of the Supreme Court appointed | The Straits Times". www.straitstimes.com. Retrieved 2022-05-04.
- ^ a b anthony_chia (2024-11-04). "PMO | Appointment of Deputy Attorney-General (Nov 2024)". Prime Minister's Office Singapore. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
External links
edit- Goh Yihan's CV on the Judiciary's website