Subhas Anandan
| Subhas Anandan | |
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Subhas Anandan
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| Born |
25 December 1947 Kerala, India |
| Died | 7 January 2015 (aged 67) Singapore |
| Education |
Raffles Institution University of Singapore |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Subhas Anandan (25 December 1947 – 7 January 2015) was a prominent criminal lawyer in Singapore. He had appeared in numerous high-profile cases, including a 2010 case involving actress Quan Yi Fong hitting a taxi driver, and a 2008 case involving retail tycoon Tang Wee Sung trying to illegally purchase a kidney from a living donor. At the time of his death, he was the senior partner in law firm RHTLaw Taylor Wessing LLP and headed its department in criminal law. He was a founding member and the first president of the Association of Criminal Lawyers of Singapore. He was also the president of Cuesports Singapore, the national sports association for billiards, snooker and pool. Towards the end of his life, Anandan's health began to deteriorate and he died of heart failure in January 2015.
Anandan was born on 25 December 1947 to Raman Anandan and Govindan Pushpanjaly, in Kerala, India. When he was five months old, the family migrated from Kerala to Singapore, where his father had found work as a clerk in the British Royal Navy. They lived in the staff quarters within the British naval base in Sembawang until his father retired in the early 1970s.
Anandan attended primary and secondary school in the naval base, first at Admiralty Asian School and then Naval Base School. He excelled academically and in sports too, including cricket and football. In 1963, after achieving a first grade in his Senior Cambridge (now 'O' Level) examinations, he left for India to study medicine in Madras (now Chennai) under the request of his mother. But after the first few lessons, he was convinced that he was not meant to be a doctor. He returned home after three months and started his pre-university education at Raffles Institution in 1964.
After completing his Higher School Certificate (now 'A' Level) examinations, he wanted to join the police force but eventually enrolled in the University of Singapore (now National University of Singapore) at the insistence of his father. While pursuing a degree in law, he participated in various extra-curricular activities, including playing on the university's football team and serving as secretary-general of the Socialists' Club. He obtained his law degree in 1970 and went on to become to the protégé of Chan Sek Keong, then a senior partner at law firm Shook Lin & Bok and, later, a Chief Justice of Singapore.
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