[WEBINAR] Family Conference 2020

Judge Kenneth Yap – Registrar, Family Justice Courts

Mr Kenneth Yap joined the Singapore Legal Service in 2001.

Mr Yap read law at University College, Oxford, and received his Master of Laws from the University of Cambridge as well as at the Harvard University.

He was appointed to his current appointment as Registrar of the Family Justice Courts on 1 March 2019. Prior to this, he had served as a District Judge in the Criminal Justice Division of the State Courts, a Senior Assistant Registrar of the Supreme Court and a Justice’s Law Clerk. He had also served in the Legal Branch of the Singapore Legal Service as the Chief Executive of ACRA, the Divisional Director of the Legal Services Division at the Ministry of Manpower, and as a Deputy Public Prosecutor at the Attorney-General’s Chambers. Mr Yap was also previously seconded to an Administrative Service post as the Deputy Director of the Workplace Policy and Strategy Division of the Ministry of Manpower.

Mr Yap also serves as the Chairman of the GST Board of Review, and as a Member of the Appeal Board of the Commission of Foreign Manpower under the Ministry of Manpower.