Goh Yihan
Judicial Commissioner of Singapore | |
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In office 1 July 2022 – 30 September 2023 | |
Appointed by | Halimah Yacob |
Personal details | |
Born | 1981 (age 42–43) |
Nationality | Singaporean |
Alma mater | |
Goh Yihan | |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Wú Yìhán |
Goh Yihan (born 1981) is a Judge of the
Education
Goh 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
Goh 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
Goh 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
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
After 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.
Professional appointments and awards
Goh is a board member of the
Selected works
- 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
- ^ 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.
External links
- Goh Yihan's CV on the Judiciary's website