Quentin Loh
Quentin Loh Sze-On is a Singaporean judge who sat on the High Court of Singapore and the Supreme Court of Fiji.
Legal career
In 1978, Loh founded the Cooma, Lau & Loh legal team and became Managing Partner. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 1999. He moved to the Executive Committee of Rajah & Tann in 2001, and became Deputy Managing Partner in 2003. He also served as Director of a dispute resolution complex until 2009.Supreme Court career
Loh was first appointed to the Supreme Court of Singapore as a Judicial Commissioner on 1 September 2009. On 1 June 2010, he was elevated to the position of High Court Judge. In December 2017, his term was extended by three years by president Halimah Yacob, and he was sworn in on 4 January 2018. He has occasionally sat on the Court of Appeal of Singapore during periods with a high caseload.Loh is in charge of the Singapore International Commercial Court, and chairs both the SICC Development Committee and the SICC Rules Committee. He also chairs the Personal Injury Review Committee and the Professional Training of Lawyers group. During the SICC's first case in November 2015, he said:
As a judge, he specialises in law relating to construction, commercial litigation, and domestic and international arbitration.
Notable judgements
On the topic of same sex activity in Singapore, Loh was part of the team which rejected a constitutional challenge to the law which criminalizes such acts, arguing that it should be a matter for the legislature and not the courts.Loh was responsible for convicting Alan Shadrake in the case of Shadrake v Attorney-General in 2011. Shadrake had been charged with the offence of [scandalizing the court in Singapore] with his book Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock. Loh clarified and contextualized the law throughout the case and judgement.