Justice Choor Singh - Sikhs The Supreme

Mr. Justice Choor Singh is the FIRST INDIAN to be nominated to the bench of the Supreme Court of Singapore and he thus earned the distinction of being the FIRST Indian nominated to the bench of any Apex Court outside India.

In Singapore, he was often respectfully known by the nickname "THE HANGING JUDGE". He came to Singapore in 1917 at the age of 6 during the first world war. He created history as he rose from a son of a night watchman to the pinnacle of society in Singapore by becoming a justice of its Supreme Court with legal credentials from UK. In felicitating Justice Choor Singh on his appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court in 1963, the Chairman of the Law Society remarked, "Your Lordship has earned a special place with history of this country as the symbol for a self-made man". On his retirement, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Singapore paid tribute to him in the words, " ... in 17 years on the Supreme Court bench, his comprehensive knowledge of the criminal law and procedure and his wide experience in the administration of criminal justice has been of immense help to me and to my colleagues and we will miss him.....”

As gleeful from his 105 judgements reported in the Malaysian Law, he was an all-rounder and sound in all branches of the law with a special aptitude for criminal law. He was quick to reach the core of the matter in seconds and his judgements displayed such a depth of learning and research that, the record reveals, THAT NO JUDGEMENT OF THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL DELIVERED BY JUSTICE CHOOR SINGH WAS EVER DISTURBED BY THE PRIVY COUNCIL IN ENGLAND.

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