Book Title: Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Abstract: This chapter examines the role and contributions of Singapore’s third Chief Justice, Chan Sek Keong, in the field of public law. It argues that while Chan served only six years as Chief Justice (2006–2012), his impact on the court and its approach to constitutional adjudication was so important and significant as to warrant him being inducted into the pantheon of ‘towering judges’.