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The HonourableSteven ChongSC
庄泓翔
Chong in 2014
Judge of the Court of Appeal of Singapore
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 April 2017
Appointed by	Tony Tan
Judge of the High Court of Singapore
In office 25 June 2014 – 31 March 2017
Appointed by	Tony Tan
7th Attorney-General of Singapore
In office 25 June 2012 – 24 June 2014
Appointed by	Tony Tan
Preceded by	Sundaresh Menon
Succeeded by	V. K. Rajah
Judge of the High Court of Singapore
In office 1 June 2010 – 21 June 2012
Appointed by	S. R. Nathan
Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore
In office 1 October 2009 – 31 May 2010
Appointed by	S. R. Nathan
Personal details
Born	(1957-09-22) 22 September 1957 (age 67) Colony of Singapore
Alma mater	National University of Singapore (LLB)

Steven Chong Horng Siong SC (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

1. "Steven Chong Horng Siong". Retrieved 2 December 2015.
2. "Justice Steven Chong appointed as new Attorney-General, takes over from the present AG, Mr Sundaresh Menon". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
3. Justice V. K. Rajah to take over as A-G in June, 'Straits Times', 28 April 2014.
4. "He pleads guilty to killing prostitute". TODAY. 12 January 2010.
5. "Accused claims victim 'guided and lured' him". TODAY. 15 January 2010.

External links

• Attorney-General's Chambers factsheet on the appointment of Justice Steven Chong as Attorney-General
• Steven Chong's profile at Rajah & Tann LLP

• Singaporean people of Chinese descent
• Anglo-Chinese School alumni
• Living people
• National University of Singapore alumni
• 20th-century Singaporean lawyers
• Singaporean people of Hakka descent
• Singaporean Senior Counsel
• Attorneys-general of Singapore
• Singaporean Judges of Appeal
• 1957 births
• 21st-century Singaporean lawyers