Justice Goh Yihan to step down as judge and assume new role starting January 2025.
Justice Goh Yihan, a Supreme Court judge in Singapore, has been appointed as Deputy Attorney-General for a two-year term, beginning in January 2025. In order to take up this new role, Justice Goh will resign from his judicial position on January 1, 2025.
Before becoming a judge, Justice Goh was an academic, teaching at the Yong Pung How School of Law at the Singapore Management University (SMU) from 2014. He served as the dean of the law school from 2017 to 2022. Justice Goh also had roles as a justices’ law clerk and assistant registrar at the Supreme Court earlier in his career.
He holds a first-class honours degree in law from the National University of Singapore (NUS), was called to the Singapore Bar in 2011, and was appointed senior counsel in January 2021. His professional expertise includes finance, securities, banking, complex commercial cases, and intellectual property law. Justice Goh is actively involved in the legal community, serving as a board member of the Singapore Judicial College and the Singapore Institute of Legal Education, and co-chairing the legal research and publications committee of the Singapore Academy of Law.
