Steven Chong Horng Siong SC

Senior Counsel

The title of Senior Counsel or State Counsel is given to a senior barrister or advocate in some countries, typically equivalent to the title "Queen's Counsel" used in Commonwealth Realms...

 is a Judge of the High Court of Singapore

High Court of Singapore

The High Court of the Republic of Singapore is the lower division of the Supreme Court of Singapore, the upper being the Court of Appeal. It consists of the Chief Justice of Singapore and the Judges of the High Court. Judicial Commissioners are often appointed to assist with the Court's caseload...

. A former litigation lawyer and managing partner of Rajah & Tann

Rajah & Tann

Rajah & Tann LLP is a transnational law firm headquartered in Singapore with offices in Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai and Vientiane. Founded in 1955, it is the largest law firm in Southeast Asia with over 300 lawyers and fee-earners. The firm is incorporated as a limited...

, he is one of the leading shipping lawyers in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. Chong obtained his LL.B. from the National University of Singapore

National University of Singapore Faculty of Law

The National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law is the older of Singapore's two law schools. The Faculty was initially established as the Department of Law in the then University of Malaya in 1956, with the first batch of students matriculating in the following year...

 in 1982. In that same year, he, together with Davinder Singh

Davinder Singh

Davinder Singh Sachdev s/o Amar Singh SC is one of Singapore's foremost trial and appellate lawyer, having attained the title of Senior Counsel in 1997, and having been described by Asia Pacific Legal 500 2009/2010 as being "without peer at the bar"...

, V K Rajah

V K Rajah

Born in 1957, Justice Vijaya Kumar Rajah graduated from the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law in 1982 and obtained his Masters of Law from the University of Cambridge in 1986. His father was the former Barisan Sosialis leader Thampore Thamby Rajah, better known as T.T...

 and Jimmy Yim, won the Philip C. Jessup Cup. Chong is a member of the Singapore Citizenship Committee of Inquiry, and also Iceland

Iceland

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’s Honorary-Consul to Singapore.

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• Profile at R&T