Steven Chong

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Singaporean judge (born 1957)

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Field	Value
honorific_prefix	The Honourable
name	Steven Chong
native_name	庄泓翔
honorific-suffix
image	Steven Chong at the ground-breaking ceremony for the new School of Law building, Singapore Management University - 20140120.jpg
imagesize	150px
caption	Chong in 2014
office	Justice of the Court of Appeal of Singapore
term_start	1 April 2017
appointer	Tony Tan
office2	Judge of the High Court of Singapore
term_start2	25 June 2014
term_end2	31 March 2017
appointer2	Tony Tan
order3	7th
office3	Attorney-General of Singapore
term_start3	25 June 2012
term_end3	24 June 2014
predecessor3	Sundaresh Menon
successor3	V. K. Rajah
appointer3	Tony Tan
office4	Judge of the High Court of Singapore
term_start4	1 June 2010
term_end4	21 June 2012
appointer4	S. R. Nathan
office5	Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore
term_start5	1 October 2009
term_end5	31 May 2010
appointer5	S. R. Nathan
birth_date
birth_place	Colony of Singapore
alma_mater	National University of Singapore (LLB)
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Steven Chong Horng Siong (born 22 September 1957) is a Singaporean jurist who has been serving as a judge of the Court of Appeal of Singapore since 2017. He had previously served as the seventh attorney-general of Singapore between 2012 and 2014, and a judge of the High Court of Singapore between 2010 and 2012, and again between 2014 and 2017.

Early life

Chong graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1982.

In that same year, Chong, together with Davinder Singh, V. K. Rajah and Jimmy Yim, won the Philip C. Jessup Cup.

Chong was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court in 1983. He was appointed Senior Counsel in January 1998, Judicial Commissioner in October 2009 and Supreme Court Judge in June 2010.

Career

Chong started his legal practice at Drew & Napier, where he spent 14 years and built up his legal career from an associate to the joint Managing Partner. He then spent 12 years in Rajah & Tann and was its Senior Partner and then Managing Partner until his appointment to the Supreme Court Bench. He was a leading commercial lawyer during his practice and argued many cases in court. He was also a senior member of the Singapore arbitration community and participated in arbitration as both a counsel as well as an arbitrator. He is an accredited Arbitrator of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration. Chong was also Iceland's Honorary Consul to Singapore from 2003 to 2009.

Chong was appointed Attorney-General on 25 June 2012, succeeding Sundaresh Menon. In April 2014 it was announced that he would return to Singapore's High Court at the conclusion of his two-year term, to be succeeded by Judge of Appeal V. K. Rajah.

During his tenure as judicial commissioner, Chong heard the case of prostitute killer Madhuri Jaya Chandra Reddy, an Indian national who strangled a pregnant sex worker to death in a Geylang hotel after they argued over the payment of the prostitute's services. Reddy was originally charged with murder before the charge was reduced to manslaughter through a plea bargain between the defence and prosecution. Chong found that Reddy's act of killing the victim was disproportionate to the threat she may pose to his safety, and he also made note that Reddy was fully conscious of his actions. Chong stated that Reddy clearly was unremorseful of his actions, given that he misappropriated the items of the deceased and having sexual intercourse with another sex worker in the same room where he killed the victim, whose body was hidden under the bed. Chong sentenced Reddy, then 21 years old, to 17 years' imprisonment in January 2010.

References

"Justice Steven Chong".
"Steven Chong Horng Siong".
"Justice Steven Chong appointed as new Attorney-General, takes over from the present AG, Mr Sundaresh Menon".
[http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/courts-crime/story/justice-v-k-rajah-take-over-attorney-general-june-20140428 ''Justice V. K. Rajah to take over as A-G in June'', 'Straits Times', 28 April 2014].
(12 January 2010). "He pleads guilty to killing prostitute". TODAY.
(15 January 2010). "Accused claims victim 'guided and lured' him". TODAY.

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