Goh Yihan

Goh Yihan (born 1981) is a Deputy Attorney-General of Singapore. He was previously a Judge and a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore, and, immediately before that, an academic who last served as the Dean of the Singapore Management University School of Law.

Education

Goh graduated from the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law with a first class honours LLB in 2006 as the valedictorian. He also topped his second-year examinations and was on the NUS Undergraduate Scholarship. At the 2004 B. A. Mallal Moot, he won both the best oralist and best memorial prizes.

Academic career Goh returned to the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law in 2008, where he was a Teaching Assistant until 2010. He was then appointed as an Assistant Professor from 2011 to 2014. He had received four university and faculty teaching awards in six years in NUS. though he was already "a well-recognised and active expert in the legal profession".

Legal career

After obtaining his LLB, Goh was deployed as a Justices' Law Clerk in the Supreme Court from 2006 to 2008. In 2008, he became a Senior Justices' Law Clerk, then served as an Assistant Registrar of the Supreme Court. and as "models of clarity and conciseness".

Goh was appointed senior counsel in January 2021.

On 1 July 2022, Goh was appointed a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court for a two-year term.

On 1 October 2023, Goh was appointed a Judge of the High Court. In his work in the High Court, his areas of focus were finance, securities, banking, complex commercial cases; corporate insolvency; company, trusts and insolvency; intellectual property or information technology; and tort claims. As Deputy Attorney-General, Goh argued in support of the constitutionality of the presumptions under the Misuse of Drugs Act.

Professional appointments and awards

Goh is a board member of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education and the Singapore Judicial College.

Selected works Andrew B L Phang and Goh Yihan, Contract Law in Singapore (Alphen aan den Rijn: Wolters Kluwer, 2012) Goh Yihan, Singapore Chronicles: Law (Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies-Straits Times Press, 2015) Alvin See, Yip Man and Goh Yihan, Property and Trust Law in Singapore (Alphen aan den Rijn: Wolters Kluwer, 2018) Goh Yihan, The Interpretation of Contracts in Singapore (Singapore: Thomson Reuters, 2018) Goh Yihan, Pursuing Justice and Justice Alone: The Heart and Humanity of Andrew Phang's Jurisprudence (Singapore Academy of Law, 2022)