Yong Pung How was the second Chief Justice of Singapore, serving from 1990 to 2006 after an earlier career in banking and finance that included posts at the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. As Chief Justice he modernized Singapore's judiciary, introducing an electronic filing system, establishing night courts in the subordinate courts, and creating a justices' law clerk scheme to recruit top law graduates, reducing a backlog of roughly two thousand pending lawsuits to cases concluded within six months by the time he left office. He also ended the wearing of judicial wigs and the address of judges as My Lord. After retiring from the bench he served as chancellor of Singapore Management University, whose law school was later named in his honor.
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RoleJudge, lawyer, and banker 1 Nationality / Jurisdiction Place of Death Classification
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How did Yong Pung How come to be Chief Justice after a career in banking?
A banker invited by Lee Kuan Yew in early 1989 to lead Singapore's judiciary.
Yong Pung How left legal practice in 1971 and joined the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) as a director. In 1983 he was made OCBC's chairman and chief executive officer. In early 1989 he was invited by Lee Kuan Yew, a friend from his student days at Cambridge, to become the Chief Justice of Singapore. Once on the bench he moved to tackle a backlog of approximately 2000 suits in the High Court.
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During his tenure, he implemented a series of administrative and procedural reforms aimed at improving the efficiency of the judiciary, including measures to reduce case backlogs and the adoption of information technology in court processes.
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Yong Pung How (11 April 1926 - 9 January 2020) was a Singaporean judge, lawyer, and banker who served as the second Chief Justice of Singapore from 1990 to 2006 after being appointed by President Wee Kim Wee.
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Academic and jurisprudential evaluations of Yong tenure have generally focused on his role in transforming the administration of justice and his influence on the development of Singaporean jurisprudence.
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was a Singaporean judge
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Wikidata Q8054981, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1926
Wikidata Q8054981, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1926-04-11
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P570 (date of death): 2020
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P570 (date of death): 2020-01-09
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P19 (place of birth): Kuala Lumpur
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P20 (place of death): Singapore
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