Tan Boon Teik
| Tan Boon Teik | |
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| 陈文德 | |
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| Attorney-General of Singapore | |
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In office 1 February 1967 – 30 April 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Ahmad Mohamed Ibrahim |
| Succeeded by | Chan Sek Keong |
| Solicitor-General of Singapore | |
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In office 1 September 1963 – 31 January 1967 |
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| Preceded by | T. Kulasekaram |
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| Born | 17 January 1929 Penang, Straits Settlements (now Malaysia) |
| Died | 10 March 2012 (aged 83) Singapore |
| Nationality | Singaporean |
| Spouse(s) | Tan Sook Yee |
| Alma mater | University College London |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Tan Boon Teik (/ˌtɑːn ˌbʊn ˈteɪk/ tahn-buun-TAYK; simplified Chinese: 陈文德; traditional Chinese: 陳文德; pinyin: Chén Wén Dé; 17 January 1929 – 10 March 2012), was a former Attorney-General of Singapore, holding the office on an acting basis from 1967 to 1968, and the full position from 1969 through to 1992. Appointed when he was 39 years old, he is believed to have been the youngest person to hold this post and, as of 10 March 2012, was the longest serving Attorney-General of post-independence Singapore, having held office for just over 25 years.
Educated at University College London, Tan was called to the Bar in 1952 as a barrister-at-law of England and Wales by Middle Temple, and became an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Federation of Malaya in 1954. He joined the Singapore Legal Service in 1955 as a police court magistrate, subsequently serving as Deputy Registrar and Sheriff of the High Court (appointed 1956), the Director of the Legal Aid Bureau (1959), and Senior Crown Counsel (1963). He also taught part-time at the Faculty of Law of the University of Singapore when it was started in 1956. He became the Solicitor-General in 1963, Acting Attorney-General in 1967, and Attorney-General in 1969. During his tenure, he prepared many legal opinions on important constitutional and administrative law issues, and was also the Government's lead counsel in a number of notable cases. The Attorney-General's Chambers published the first reprint of the Constitution in 1980, and revised editions of Singapore statutes in 1970 and 1985. In 1990, it launched LawNet, a computer database then containing the full text of Singapore legislation. Tan was involved in the establishment of the Singapore Academy of Law, and was the first Chairman of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (1991–1999).
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