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SINGAPORE \u2013 A new Justice of the Court of Appeal has been appointed, bringing the total to five.<\/p>\n
Justice Sushil Sukumaran Nair was appointed to the role by President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, effective from June 15, the Prime Minister\u2019s Office said in a statement on June 12.<\/p>\n
He was appointed as a High Court judge in March, and was a<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/a>Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court<\/span><\/a> before that.<\/p>\n In those roles, he heard a wide range of civil matters such as finance, securities, banking, complex commercial cases, company, insolvency, trusts, arbitration and statutory torts.<\/p>\n Nair earned his Bachelor of Laws with honours from the National University of Singapore in 1989 and was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1990.<\/p>\n He joined Drew & Napier where he practised for about 35 years, specialising primarily in restructuring work across the Asia Pacific region.<\/p>\n He also served concurrently as the firm\u2019s Deputy Chief Executive Officer and head of Corporate Restructuring and Workout practice group.<\/p>\n The Supreme Court Bench consists of the Chief Justice, Justices of the Court of Appeal, Judges of the Appellate Division, Judges of the High Court, Senior Judges, International Judges and Judicial Commissioners.<\/p>\n With Nair\u2019s appointment, the Supreme Court will have a total of 33 judges and 26 international judges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A new Justice of the Court of Appeal has been appointed, bringing the total to five. Justice Sushil Sukumaran Nair was appointed to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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