The Hon Belinda Ang Saw Ean, SC completed her term as Justice of the Court of Appeal in April 2026. Ms Ang’s judicial career started in 2002. She was first appointed as Judicial Commissioner in February 2002 and became a Judge of the High Court in 2003. She was appointed a Judge of the Appellate Division and concurrently, its President in 2021, and was later elevated as a Justice of the Court of Appeal in 2022. Ms Ang sat regularly in the Court of Appeal since 30 July 2018.
As a judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore for over 24 years, her areas of focus had been in Shipping and Arbitration matters, Finance, Securities, Banking, and Complex Commercial cases.
Born in Malaysia, Ms Ang admitted as a Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple and subsequently as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore in 1978. She received in 1979 her Master of Laws (with distinction) from the University College, London. In 2016, she was made an Overseas Bencher of the Middle Temple.
She joined M/s Godwin & Co in 1980 and was made junior partner in 1983. She also founded M/s Ang & Partners in 1985, her own boutique law firm specialising in shipping and insurance disputes. She was appointed Senior Counsel in 1998.
Ms Ang is a mediator on the Singapore Mediation Centre’s Senior Mediator Panel.