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Chief Justice Of The Straits Settlements
The chief justice of Singapore is the presiding member of the Supreme Court of Singapore. It is the highest office in the judicial system of Singapore, appointed by the president, on the advice of the prime minister. The incumbent chief justice is Sundaresh Menon, who took office on 6 November 2012. He was the first chief justice to be born in Singapore. History Prior to 1959, the chief justice was appointed by the governor of Singapore, when Singapore was still a Crown colony part of the British Empire. List of chief justices (1965–present) Chief justices of the Republic of Singapore List of chief justices (1867–1965) Chief justices of the Straits Settlements Chief justices of the Colony of Singapore Chief justices of the State of Singapore See also * President of Singapore * Prime Minister of Singapore * Attorney-General of Singapore External links List of former judges Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundaresh Menon
Sundaresh Menon (born 26 February 1962) is a Singaporean lawyer and judge who has served as the fourth Chief Justice of Singapore since 2012 after being appointed by president Tony Tan. He is the first Singapore-born Chief Justice and the second to have previously served as the Attorney-General of Singapore after Chan Sek Keong. Menon has played a prominent role in the development of Singapore's legal landscape, particularly in the areas of commercial law and legal technology, and is recognised for his efforts to strengthen the rule of law and judicial cooperation across Asia. He was a founding partner of law firm WongPartnership, and was also a partner at Shook Lin & Bok, Rajah & Tann, and Jones Day. Educated at the National University of Singapore and Harvard Law School, Menon began his career in private practice and was appointed Senior Counsel (SC) in 2008. He held senior positions in several prominent law firms before being appointed Judicial Commissioner in 2006 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sidgreaves
Sir Thomas Sidgreaves (25 October 1831 – 23 December 1889) was a British colonial judge who was Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements from 1871 to 1886. Sidgreaves was born in Preston, Lancashire into a Catholic family, the second son of George Sidgreaves. He was educated at Stonyhurst College and the University of London, earning a B.A. in 1853. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1857. He was knighted in 1874 for service in British India. He married Barbara Young, with whom he had six children, including Sir Arthur Sidgreaves, head of Rolls-Royce. He died by suicide in Great Malvern Great Malvern is an area of the civil parish of Malvern, Worcestershire, Malvern, in the Malvern Hills District, Malvern Hills district, in the county of Worcestershire, England. It lies at the foot of the Malvern Hills, a designated Area of O ..., shooting himself in the chest in his garden. He had been suffering from depression because of recent financial losses, though h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Whyatt
Sir John Whyatt (13 April 1905 – 14 March 1978) was a colonial judge who served as Chief Justice of Singapore from 1955 to 1958. Early life and education Whyatt was born on 13 April 1905. He was educated at Stonyhurst College and Balliol College, Oxford. Career Whyatt joined the colonial legal service in 1937 and went to Hong Kong as Assistant Crown Solicitor, and in the following year was appointed Crown Counsel, Hong Kong. In 1941, he was seconded to the Eastern Group Supply Council in India as Secretary. In 1944, he returned to Hong Kong and served with the planning department at the Colonial Office. The following year, he went to Australia as supplies officer for the Colonial Office in Australia, and served as adviser to the British representative of UNRRA at its meeting in Sydney. In 1946, he returned to Hong Kong as Custodian of Energy Property. Whyatt served as Attorney-General of Barbados in 1948, and from 1951 to 1955, he was Attorney General of Kenya and Ministe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Murray-Aynsley
Sir Charles Murray Murray-Aynsley (28 November 1893 – 30 August 1967) was a British colonial judge who served as Chief Justice of Singapore from 1946 to 1955. Early life and education Murray-Aynsley was born on 28 November 1893, the only son of Rev Alfred Murray-Aynsley. He served with the King's Royal Rifle Corps (1914–1919), and while serving in France (1915–16), he was severely wounded. He was educated at Marlborough College, St Paul's School, and at St John's College, Cambridge where he received double firsts in history and law. Career In 1920, Murray-Aynsley was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple and practised on the North-eastern circuit from 1920 to 1927. He then joined the Colonial Judicial Service and went to Belize, British Honduras as District Commissioner and acted as Attorney-General on several occasions. He served as Chief Justice of Tonga (1930–1935); Chief Justice of Grenada (1935–1938), and Puisne Judge of the Federated Malay States and Suprem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil William Victor Carey
Cecil William Victor Carey (6 October 1887 – 29 October 1976) was an Irish barrister and colonial judge who served as acting Chief Justice of Singapore in 1946. Early life and education Carey was born on 6 October 1887 at Dublin, the second son of William Carey, solicitor. He was educated at Trinity College, University of Dublin where he received his BA and LLB, and in 1910 was called to the Irish Bar by King's Inns, Dublin. Career Carey began his career practising at the Irish Bar serving from 1910 to 1915. In 1915, he joined the Colonial Service and went to Africa where he served for 25 years in various posts. From 1915 to 1921, he served in Uganda, first as assistant district officer and later as magistrate. He then transferred to Nigeria as Crown Counsel, and in 1930, was appointed a puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, remaining in office until 1940 while also serving on occasion as acting Solicitor General of Nigeria. Carey then went to British Malaya whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy McElwaine
Sir Percy Alexander McElwaine KC (21 September 1884 – 24 October 1969) was a lawyer and judge who served, ''inter alia'', as Attorney General of Fiji and Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements. Early life McElwaine was born in Roscommon, Ireland, and was educated at Campbell College in Belfast and at Trinity College Dublin. He was admitted to the Irish bar in 1908 and the Alberta bar in 1913. In the First World War, he was a temporary lieutenant in the Fourteenth Royal Irish Rifles. Marriages McElwaine married Evelyn Annie Forsaith Macnaught at St Mary Le Park in Battersea, London, on 17 June 1914. She died in the 1918 influenza epidemic on 10 November 1918. She was pregnant at the time of her death. His second wife, Margaret, was a popular socialite during their time in Singapore. They had two sons, David Eric and Ian Douglas. Legal, political and judicial career McElwaine was made acting Solicitor General of Kenya on 15 October 1925, and a nominated official (i.e., ''e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Huggard
Sir Walter Clarence Huggard QC (d. 21 June 1957) was a British barrister, acting High Commissioner for Southern Africa, High Commissioner for the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland and Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements. Education Sir Walter was educated at Methodist College Belfast and Trinity College Dublin where he was First Honourman and Senior Moderator in Legal and Political Science. He received an LLD and was called to the Bar at King's Inn in 1907. Career In 1914 he became a magistrate in Nigeria and in 1920 was appointed Solicitor General for Trinidad and Tobago. Huggard took silk in 1921. The following year he became Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago and was Attorney General of Kenya, Attorney General for the Kenya Colony from 1926 to 1929 (a position which also gave him a seat in the Legislative Council of Kenya, Legislative Council) and Attorney-General of Singapore, Attorney General for the Straits Settlements from 1929 to 1933. Huggard was knight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James William Murison
Sir James William Murison (23 March 1872 – 28 August 1945) was a Scottish colonial judge. He was Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements from 1925 to 1933, and, before that, Chief Judge of Zanzibar. He chaired the Murison Committee, a commission set up to study the incidents leading to the violent outbreak and the course of events between 13 October and 3 November 1933, in Palestine, and estimate the damage done to property and loss of life. The commission's report was published in the ''Palestine Gazette'' and, after presenting its outline of the causes and events of the disturbances, concluded that while an "Arab crowd in Palestine is mercurial and excitable and when excited, dangerous", the British colonial Palestine Police Force had in its response "acted with restraint and forbearance". He was born in Aberdeen, the younger son of academic Alexander Falconer Murison. He attended St Olave's Grammar School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was admitted at the Middle Temple in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Shaw (judge)
Sir Walter Sidney Shaw (15 April 1863 – 24 April 1937) was an English barrister and judge. He served as a judge in a number of British colonies, his last judicial appointment being as Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements. He was also the chairman of the Shaw Commission which investigated the 1929 Palestine riots. Early life Born in 1863, Shaw was the second son of George Shaw, a barrister, of St George's Square, Pimlico. He was educated at Brighton College, leaving the school in 1879, and Trinity College, Cambridge,''Kingston Gleaner'', 26 May 1937. which was his father’s old college, where he was admitted in 1882."SHAW, WALTER SIDNEY" in John Venn, John Archibald Venn, eds., ''Alumni Cantabrigienses'', Vol. 2, Part V (Cambridge University Press, 1953)p. 482 "SHAW, WALTER SIDNEY. Adm. pens. at TRINITY, June 10, 1882. nds. of George (1843), of 71, St George's Square, London" He was called to the Bar from the Middle Temple in 1888.''The Straits Times'' (Singapore), 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Alexander Strachey Bucknill
Sir John Alexander Strachey Bucknill King's Counsel, KC (14 September 1873 – 6 October 1926) was a British lawyer and Judge. He served as Attorney General of Hong Kong, Chief Justice of Singapore, Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements and Puisne Judge in Patna, India. Early life Bucknill was born in Clifton, Bristol, England on 14 September 1873. He was the son of Sir Thomas Townsend Bucknill a Justice of the High Court in England.Unless otherwise noted, biographical details from Ibis, Volume 69, Issue 1, pages 139–145, January 1927 His younger half-brother was Sir Alfred Townsend Bucknill (1880–1963), who became a High Court Judge in England and in 1945 was appointed a Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Privy Councillor. Bucknill was educated at Charterhouse School and Keble College, Oxford where he took honours in the Natural Science School. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1896 and practiced on the Midland Circuit until 1902. In 1901 Buckni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Hyndman Jones
Sir William Henry Hyndman Jones (9 August 184720 August 1926) was a British colonial judge and administrator. William Henry Hyndman Jones was born on 9 August 1847 in Liverpool. He attended Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge, was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 21 November 1870, and was called to the bar of Lincoln's Inn on 3 July 1878. In 1880, two years after his call to the bar, he went to Barbados to review the operations of its police force. One year later, he became an acting judge of the Barbados Court of Appeal. In 1883, he was the chief justice of both Saint Lucia and Tobago, as well as the attorney general and a member of the executive council of either or both colonies. He held various judicial and administrative positions in Jamaica from 1887 to 1896. Hyndman Jones was sent to the Straits Settlements in 1896. He became the acting judicial commissioner of the Federated Malay States in 1903 and chief judicial commissioner effective 1 January 1906. In Augus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Winfield Bonser
Sir John Winfield Bonser, (24 October 1847 – 9 December 1914) was a British colonial judge. He served as the Chief Justice of Ceylon for almost 10 years. Early life Bonser was the son of Reverend John Bonser. He was born in Walsham, Norfolk, in 1847. Bonser was educated at Ashby Grammar School, Loughborough Grammar School, Heath Grammar School admitted October 1863, and Christ's College, Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn. Legal career He was Attorney General of the Straits Settlements between 1883 and 1893. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements, in 1893, on the untimely death from cholera of the incumbent Chief Justice, Elliot Bovill. He soon transferred to Ceylon where he served as Chief Justice of Ceylon from 1893 to 1902. He was knighted in 1894. He was appointed to the Privy Council on 11 June 1902, and sat as a Member of Judicial Committee of the Privy Council The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) is the highest court of appeal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
