Tan Teow Yeow
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Judicial Commissioner | |
In office 15 March 1989 – 15 March 1991 | |
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Born | 1946 Singapore |
Died | 6 August 2008 (aged 62) |
Residence | Singapore |
Alma mater | National University of Singapore |
Tan Teow Yeow (Chinese: 陈朝耀; pinyin: Chén Cháoyào) (1946 – 6 August 2008) was a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore and a former President of the Industrial Arbitration Court.
Early life and education
Tan graduated from the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law in 1967.
Career
Tan served in the legal sector for 40 years. He started his career first as a Deputy Public Prosecutor and then as a Magistrate.[1] In 1973, he was appointed as the head of the Crime Division of the Attorney-General's Chambers. He was then appointed as the President of the Industrial Arbitration Court from 1988 to 1991.[2][3] He was elevated to the bench in 1989 and served a two-year term as Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore from 1989 to 1991.[3]
During his two-year term as Judicial Commissioner, one of the cases presided over by Tan was the case of Hensley Anthony Neville (1957 - 1992), a Singaporean who was wanted by Singaporean authorities for the 1984 rape and murder of Lim Hwee Huang, a 19-year-old interior designer who was thrown to her death from the kitchen window of Neville's flat at Kallang Bahru. Neville, who was arrested in Malaysia in March 1987, was reportedly the first person to represent himself without a lawyer during a murder trial in Singapore. Although Neville argued that both he and Lim had consensual sex and that Lim could have either accidentally or suicidally fallen to her death, both Tan and another trial judge, Lai Kew Chai, overruled Neville's claims and instead, they both determined that he had "wilfully and cruelly" killed Lim after he raped the 19-year-old victim, and hence sentenced him to death on 22 November 1990.[4]
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- Ahmad Nizam Abbas
- Subhas Anandan
- Lawrence Ang
- Anil Balchandani
- Cavinder Bull
- Harry Elias
- N. Ganesan
- Hugh Hickling
- Michael Hwang
- Jane Ittogi
- Glenn Knight
- Koh Eng Tian
- Kwa Geok Choo
- John Laycock
- Lim Suet Fern
- Peter Low
- William Napier
- Noor Mohamed Marican
- Quek Mong Hua
- K. S. Rajah
- M Ravi
- Francis Seow
- Edmund Sim
- Davinder Singh
- Song Ong Siang
- Rajesh Sreenivasan
- Adrian Tan
- Tan Choo Leng
- Josephus Tan
- Roger Tan
- Tang Fong Har
- Teo Soon Kim
- Thio Shen Yi
- Eugene Thuraisingam
- Robert Carr Woods
- Lionel Yee
- Stephanie Yuen-Thio
- Simon Chesterman
- Leslie Chew
- Leslie C. Green
- Harry E. Groves
- Tommy Koh
- Lionel A. Sheridan
- Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah
- Tan Cheng Han
- David Tan
- Eugene Tan
- Tan Yock Lin
- Simon Tay
- Thio Li-ann
- Thio Su Mien
- Eleanor Wong
- Amrin Amin
- Chen Show Mao
- Chia Yong Yong
- Chiam See Tong
- Chin Tet Yung
- Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss
- Christopher de Souza
- He Ting Ru
- Ho Peng Kee
- J. B. Jeyaretnam
- Desmond Lee
- Ellen Lee
- Lee Kuan Yew
- Lim Biow Chuan
- Sylvia Lim
- Lim Tean
- Ling How Doong
- David Marshall
- Nadia Ahmad Samdin
- Vikram Nair
- Ong Kian Min
- Michael Palmer
- Murali Pillai
- Indranee Rajah
- Sin Boon Ann
- Pritam Singh
- Hany Soh
- Tan Chye Cheng
- Dennis Tan
- Tang Liang Hong
- Patrick Tay
- Edwin Tong
- Sandrasegaran Woodhull
- Alvin Yeo
- Charles Yeo
- Zhulkarnain Abdul Rahim
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