Congratulations to our 2021 Justices’ Law Clerks!

(L to R) Class of 2021: Ong Kye Jing, Ryan Kwan, Jasmine Goh, Jerry Wang, Gwendolyn Oh, Wee Jong Xuan, Lai Weng Han

We are pleased to announce that seven of our students from the Class of 2021 have been appointed as Justices’ Law Clerks (JLC) at the Singapore Supreme Court. First introduced in 1991 by former Chief Justice Yong Pung How, the JLC programme offers top young law graduates the opportunity to train under senior judges and gain valuable exposure to court perspectives. The JLC is a two-year programme of the Singapore Legal Service. Selected law graduates work with and train under the Chief Justice and other members of the Supreme Court Bench.

As JLCs, Ong Kye Jing, Ryan Kwan, Jasmine Goh, Jerry Wang, Gwendolyn Oh, Wee Jong Xuan, and Lai Weng Han from NUS Faculty of Law, will undertake legal research, draft bench memorandums and provide hearing-related assistance to Judges of the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

We congratulate them for having earned their places in the JLC programme with outstanding academic and extra-curricular achievements.

Kye Jing won the Oxford University Press Law Prize for Best Student and the Peter English Memorial Prize for Criminal Law in AY17/18. In that same academic year, he was awarded the NUS Pro Bono Leadership Award for involvement in The Recourse Initiative, the NUS In-Person Deputyship Project and the Moot Parliament Programme. In AY20/21, he won the Peacemakers’ Prize in Mediation and became a SIMI Accredited Mediator Level 1. Kye Jing represented NUS Law in several moot competitions, emerging as the individual champion for the BA Mallal Moot in 2018. He was also part of the Champion team (Asia) who won the Manfred Lachs Space Moot in 2019.

Ryan graduated from the Double Degree Programme in Law and Accountancy from NUS Law and NUS Business School and has been placed on the Dean’s List of both faculties. He has represented NUS Law and NUS Business in several international moots and case competitions, including the ASEAN-China Case Competition, Tun Suffian Human Rights Moot 2017, Asia Cup Moot 2018, Fletcher Insolvency Moot 2019 and Herbert Smith Freehills Competition Law Moot 2020, winning multiple team championships and Best Oralist awards.

Jasmine graduated from the Double Degree Programme in Law and Liberal Arts with NUS Law and Yale-NUS College (Minor in Arts and Humanities). She was awarded the NUS Merit Scholarship and was placed on the Dean’s List in her first to third years and the Overall Dean’s List in her final year. She has taken part in the Asian Law Students’ Association International Moot Court Competition in Bangkok, Thailand and was awarded grants to take part in summer programmes with the London School of Economics and Yale University.

Jerry graduated as the Valedictorian of the Class of 2021, winning the Chief Justice Prize, Leo Chia Heng Prize and Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal. He won the Law Society Book Prize for Top 2 Students consecutively in AY18/19 and AY19/20, as well as subject prizes such as the Rajah & Tann Tax Prize, Lucien Wong Corporate Finance Law Prize and Tan Sook Yee Property Law Prize. He was also the Champion for the Attorney General Cup 2019 and represented New York University in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot during his Master of Laws at NYU.

Gwendolyn was placed on the Dean’s List for three consecutive years, and was awarded the Tan Sook Yee Prize in Property Law. She has represented NUS Law in several moot competitions, emerging Champion on multiple occasions – the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition 2020 (Singapore National Rounds), Attorney-General’s Cup 2018 and IASLA Space Law Moot Court Competition 2018. She is also a Lee Seng Tee Scholarship recipient, and has recently completed her Master of Laws at King’s College London.

Jong Xuan was awarded the Adrian Clark Memorial Medal and Singapore Academy of Law Prize for finishing top in the final year examinations in 2021. As the top student for Aviation Law and Civil Justice and Process, he was awarded the Prize in Aviation Law & Policy and the David Ernest S Chelliah Medal and Prize respectively. Jong Xuan was also awarded the Straits Law Book Prize in 2018 for being the top student in Legal Analysis, Research and Communication.

Weng Han was awarded the Tan Sook Yee Prize in Property Law and the Lai Kew Chai Prize in Equity & Trusts in 201919. He was also placed on the Dean’s List for his first and second year, and was on the overall Dean’s List in 2021.