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Constitution of the Legal Service Commission
The Special Personnel Board
The Senior Personnel Board
The Legal Service Commission Secretariat
Constitution of the Legal Service Commission
President: Mr Eddie Teo Justice
V K Rajah Justice
Lee Seiu Kin Justice Philip
Pillai
Secretary, LSC: Mr Hamzah Moosa
Mr Eddie Teo was appointed a Member and Deputy Chairman of the Public Service Commission on 17 March 2008. He assumed the role of Chairman of the Public Service Commission on 1 August 2008. He has been a Member of the LSC from 1 August 2008. Mr Teo was Singapore's High Commissioner in Australia from February 2006 to March 2008. He has had extensive experience in public administration, having held senior leadership positions in the Civil Service. He started his career in the Civil Service in the Security and Intelligence Division, Ministry of Defence, in 1970 after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University on a President's Scholarship. He obtained a Master of Science in International Relations from the University of London, United Kingdom in 1974. Mr Teo rose rapidly in the Intelligence Service to become the Director of the Security and Intelligence Division in 1979, and concurrently held the position of Director, Internal Security Department in the Ministry of Home Affairs from 1982 to 1986. He was appointed Permanent Secretary (Defence) in 1994. In 1998, he was appointed Permanent Secretary (Prime Minister's Office) and concurrently held the post of Permanent Secretary (Defence) until 2000. He retired from the Administrative Service in 2005 after 35 years of distinguished service in the Singapore Civil Service. Mr Teo had also served as Director on various government-linked companies over the years, including those related to the defence industry. He was Chairman of Singapore Technologies Pte Ltd from 1995 to 2000 and ST Kinetics from 2001 to 2004. He was also Chairman of the Health Corporation of Singapore Pte Ltd from 1996 to 1998 and the Civil Service College from 2001 to 2005. For his contributions to the
Singapore Public Service, Mr Teo was awarded the Public Administration
Medal (Gold) in 1983, the Meritorious Service Medal in 1997 and
the Distinguished Service Order in 2006. Justice V K Rajah was appointed a Member of the LSC on 1 November 2007. Justice Rajah was first appointed a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court on 2 January 2004 and thereafter a Judge on 1 November 2004. He was appointed a Judge of Appeal on 11 April 2007. Justice Rajah graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1982 with several prizes for academic merit and subsequently obtained an LLM (First Class) from the University of Cambridge in 1986. Justice Rajah commenced practice
with Rajah & Tann in 1983. In 1997, he was appointed a Senior
Counsel. He was the Managing Partner of Rajah & Tann from
1987 to 2003, prior to his elevation to the Bench. He oversaw
the growth of the firm from 6 lawyers to more than 160 lawyers
and 200 staff. Justice Lee Seiu Kin was appointed a Member of the LSC on 19 April 2006. Justice Lee was appointed a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court on 15 October 1997. He was appointed the Second Solicitor-General at the Attorney-General’s Chambers on 15 October 2002. He was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court on 11 April 2006. Justice Lee graduated with a BA in Engineering (Honours) from the University of Adelaide in 1976. He thereafter obtained a Masters of Science from the National University of Singapore in 1982 and an MBA (Distinction) in Business Admin/Studies from the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD) in 1983. He went on to complete his law degree at the National University of Singapore in 1986 and an LLM at the University of Cambridge in 1987. He joined the Singapore Legal Service in 1987 and was posted to the Attorney-General’s Chambers and appointed a State Counsel. Justice Lee chaired the Legal
Service Personnel Management Review Panel which undertook from
April to September 2006 a comprehensive review of the HR framework
and practices in the Legal Service. Dr Philip Pillai was appointed a Member of the LSC on 1 November 2007. Dr Pillai was first appointed a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court on 1 October 2009 and thereafter a Judge on 1 June 2010. Dr Pillai graduated from the University of Singapore with an LLB (First Class) in 1971, an LLM in 1973 and the SJD at Harvard. He was called to the Singapore Bar in 1972. He taught at the Law Faculty of the NUS from 1971 to 1985 and was Vice Dean from 1982 to 1985. He was the Senior Partner at Shook Lin & Bok LLP from 1998. His practice was corporate, corporate finance, international finance, regulatory and international trade. Dr Pillai was a Trustee on the
International Board of Trustees for the Haggai Institute, Atlanta
and was a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and
the Singapore Institute of Directors. He sat on the Board of Directors
of Prudential Assurance Company Singapore (Pte) Ltd, Hotung Investment
Holdings Ltd, ST Engineering Ltd, ST Electronic Ltd and Singapore
Press Holdings Ltd. Among other appointments, he was also previously
a board member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the
Singapore General Hospital Pte Ltd. Mr Michael Lim was appointed a Member of the LSC on 1 November 2007. Mr Lim is the Chairman of the Land Transport Authority and Nomura Singapore Ltd. Mr Lim retired on 31 December 2003 as the Executive Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Singapore, after more than 30 years with the firm, including 11 years as Executive Chairman. Mr Lim was appointed a Member of the Public Service Commission in 1998. He was previously a Member of the Nanyang Technological University Board of Trustees. He was awarded the Public Service Star and the Public Service Medal in 2003 and 1998, respectively.
Mr Lucien Wong was appointed a Member of the LSC on 1 November 2007. Mr Wong is the Managing Partner of Allen & Gledhill LLP. Mr Wong graduated from the University of Singapore in 1978. He was called to the Singapore Bar in 1979. He specialises in banking, corporate and financial services work and has extensive experience in debt and equity issues, mergers and acquisitions, banking transactions and securitisations. Mr Wong is the Chairman of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore and a board member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the National University of Singapore, and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the SingHealth Foundation. He also sits on the Boards of Directors of Cerebos Pacific Ltd and Singapore Airlines Ltd. Mr Lee Tzu Yang was appointed a Member of the LSC on 1 November 2007. He read economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Mr Lee joined Shell in
May 1979. He is concurrently Vice-President, Asia
Pacific, Shell Global Solutions, and Chairman, Shell Companies
in Singapore. He has worked in supply, trading, manufacturing,
sales and marketing, and internal consultancy within Shell, in
a wide range of countries.
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