Ang Cheng Hock

Ang Cheng Hock (, born 1970), , is a current Judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore and a former Deputy Attorney-General of Singapore.

Education

Ang graduated from the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law with an LLB in 1995. He topped his class and obtained a first class honours. While an undergraduate student, Ang and his team won the 1994 Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

Subsequently, Ang was awarded the inaugural Singapore Academy of Law Scholarship to pursue postgraduate studies at Yale Law School, where he obtained his LLM in 1998. and finished at the top of the Postgraduate Practical Law Course in 1996, when he was called to the Singapore Bar. In 2017, he was ranked Band 1 in litigation by Chambers and Partners, who noted that he "is very analytical; persuasive in his arguments and incisive in his submissions".

In 2009, Ang was appointed as a Senior Counsel. At 38, he was among the youngest lawyers to be appointed. He was sworn in on 17 May 2018.

On 15 July 2019, Ang was appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Singapore from 1 August 2019. He was sworn in on 2 August 2019. In 2020, he decided the first High Court appeal brought under the new Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA), holding that the Government bore the burden of proof in POFMA proceedings.

On 26 September 2022, Ang was appointed as a Deputy Attorney-General of Singapore from 1 October.

On 2 April 2025, Ang was re-appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Singapore with effect from 1 May 2025. On 19 September 2025, Ang was appointed as a Judge of the Court of Appeal of Singapore, Singapore's highest court, with effect from 1 October 2025.

Professional appointments

Ang is the vice-chairman of the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL)'s professional affairs committee and chairman of the SAL's professional values chapter. He is also a board member of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education, member of the Supreme Court's Civil Justice Commission, and member of the Ministry of Law's Civil Justice Review Committee.

Family

Ang is married.