Justice Ang Cheng Hock

Biography

Justice Ang Cheng Hock was appointed as a Justice of the Court of Appeal on 1 October 2025. He was appointed as a Judge of the High Court on 1 May 2025 after serving as a Deputy Attorney-General at the AGC for over two-and-a-half years. 

Justice Ang graduated at the top of his class with a Bachelor of Laws (1st Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore in 1995. As a law undergraduate, he was part of the team that won the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in 1994. He finished at the top of the Postgraduate Practical Law Course and was admitted to the bar in 1996. He then spent a year as a Justices’ Law Clerk in the Supreme Court, after which he was awarded the inaugural Singapore Academy of Law scholarship, obtained a Master of Laws from Yale Law School, and practised at Davis Polk & Wardwell, a New York law firm. On returning to Singapore, he joined Allen & Gledhill, where he was a litigator. He became a partner of the firm in 2000 and later served on the firm’s executive committee from 2010 to 2018. 

In 2009, he became one of the youngest lawyers to be appointed as a Senior Counsel at the age of 38. He was elevated to the bench as a Judicial Commissioner in 2018 and a Judge of the High Court in 2019. While on the bench, he heard a wide range of cases from civil and commercial disputes to criminal matters. In 2022, Justice Ang resigned as a judge to assume his role as a Deputy Attorney-General. At the AGC, he oversaw the work of its Civil Division and its Advocacy Group. He also supervised several high-profile criminal prosecutions.