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词条 Walter Woon
释义

  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

     Academic  Nominated Member of Parliament  Diplomat  Solicitor-General and Attorney-General  Return to academia 

  3. Fiction writing

  4. Selected works

     Non-fiction  Articles  Book chapters  Books  Fiction 

  5. Notes

  6. References

  7. Further reading

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Walter Woon Cheong Ming, SC, ({{zh|s=温长明|zh|t=溫長明|p=Wēn Chángmíng}}; born 12 September 1956) is a Singaporean lawyer, academic, diplomat and politician. He is currently professor of law at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and the Dean of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education. His expertise is in company law and securities regulation. Educated at NUS and St. John's College, Cambridge, he joined the teaching staff of the NUS Faculty of Law in 1981 and later served as Sub-Dean and Vice-Dean. He was Legal Adviser to the President of Singapore and Council of Presidential Advisors from 1995 to 1997, and was appointed as professor of law in 1999.

Woon was a Nominated Member of Parliament between 1992 and 1996. He became the first Member of Parliament since 1965 to have a Private Member's Bill become a public law in Singapore – the Maintenance of Parents Act, which was passed in 1995. Between 1997 and 2006, Woon served in a number of diplomatic capacities, including Ambassador to Germany (1998–2003) with an accreditation to Greece (2000–2003), and Ambassador to Belgium with concurrent accreditation to the European Union, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the Holy See. Woon was appointed Second Solicitor-General in 2006 and Solicitor-General the following year. He served as Attorney-General between 2008 and 2010, and then returned to academia.

Early life and education

Woon, an ethnic Singaporean Chinese of Peranakan descent,[1] was born on 12 September 1956 in Singapore[2] to schoolteachers. He was a head prefect at Pasir Panjang Primary School (which his father became principal of years later)[3] and a prefect while at Raffles Institution.[4] Following his A-levels he was considering business administration, but ended up accepting a scholarship from DBS Bank to study law instead. According to Woon in an April 2008 interview, "When I went for the scholarship interview, the interviewer said, 'We looked at your results and you look like you might be a lawyer; would you like to do law?' I said, 'Fine, if you want to give me the scholarship to do law, I'll do law'. I didn't plan to do law."[5]

He earned his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the National University of Singapore (NUS), graduating in 1981 with first class honours. That same year, he also topped the postgraduate practice law course, winning the Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par Memorial Prize.[6] He joined the teaching staff of the NUS Faculty of Law that year, focusing his teaching and research on company law and securities regulation. In 1983 he graduated with a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree with first class honours from St. John's College, Cambridge, which he completed on a Commonwealth Academic Staff scholarship.[7][8]

Career

Academic

Woon was called to the Singapore Bar in 1985. The first edition of his book Company Law was published in 1988.[9] The same year he became a Sub-Dean of the NUS Faculty of Law, then served as Vice-Dean from 1991 to 1995. On 1 February 1999 Woon was appointed a professor of law.[7] In November 1990, Woon appeared before the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore (Amendment No. 3) Bill (Bill No. 23/90) to make representations on the proposed introduction of an elected President for Singapore. He took the view that since the elected President should be politically neutral, Cabinet members should only be eligible to stand for election five years after leaving politics.[10]

Never afraid to speak his mind, in July 1991 in an interview by The Straits Times Woon commented: "We effectively don't have a Constitution. We have a law that can be easily changed by Parliament, and by the party in power because the party is Parliament. The changes themselves might not be controversial, but it is unsettling how flexible the Constitution is, unlike, say, in the United States."[11] In reply, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong pointed out that past changes to the Constitution had been made only with a two-thirds parliamentary majority and not done lightheartedly, as the intensive discussions and the two-year gestation period of the Elected President Bill proved. He affirmed that the Constitution had to evolve to reflect the changing needs of the people, and that it could not be assumed that the Constitution, drafted in 1965, would be the best Constitution for always and should be frozen in time. "So to say that because the Government in power changes the Constitution there is no Constitution is ridiculous, to put it mildly."[12]

Nominated Member of Parliament

Woon was a Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) for three terms, from 7 September 1992 to 6 September 1994, from 7 September 1994 to 6 September 1996, and from 7 September 1996 till 15 December 1996 when Parliament was dissolved for the 1997 general election.[13]

In 1992 at the start of the Government's annual Speak Mandarin Campaign, the Minister for Information and the Arts George Yeo said in a newspaper article that the rising use of English by Chinese Singaporeans was a "disturbing trend" as "[w]e become very exposed to Western cultural influences via books, magazines and films. Some influences are good. Others are harmful, especially to the structure of the family."[14] This provoked Woon to respond that "[t]he subliminal message being sent is that those who speak English are dangerous to society and that the wider use of English threatens the social fabric of Singapore". He deplored this view because good values were neither Asian nor Western: "Why should we confine ourselves to one or the other? Singapore isn't a Western society. It isn't an Asian society. It is a cosmopolitan society." He noted that "[t]he emancipation of women, the rule of law, the equality of citizens irrespective of race, language or religion, the right to representative government: These are values we have adopted from the 'decadent' West."[15]

In September 1992, Woon was appointed to the select committee to review the Companies (Amendment) Bill (Bill No. 33/92) which proposed, among other things, that scripless trading in securities listed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore be authorised so that share transfers can be made through computerised book entries.[16] He was a director of Intraco Ltd. (1989–2000) and Natsteel Ltd. (1997–2001), both listed on the Stock Exchange.[2][7]

On 23 May 1994, Woon moved a Private Member's Bill which was eventually passed by Parliament on 2 November 1995 as the Maintenance of Parents Act.[17] The Act, which entitles parents at least 60 years old and unable to maintain themselves adequately to apply to a tribunal for their children to be ordered to pay maintenance to them, was the first public law that originated from a private member's bill since Singapore's independence in 1965.[18] In its 5 December 1994 issue, Time magazine picked Woon as one of 100 young world leaders, the only Singaporean to make the list.[19]

From 1995 to 1997, Woon was Legal Adviser to the President of Singapore and Council of Presidential Advisors.[7] During this time, he represented the President as junior counsel before the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore Tribunal in Constitutional Reference No. 1 of 1995,[20] which involved the interpretation of provisions of the Constitution of Singapore touching on the ability of Parliament to curtail the President's discretionary powers.[1]

Diplomat

Between September 1997 and September 2006, Woon was seconded to the Foreign Service. He was Singapore's Ambassador to Germany from 6 February 1998 to July 2003,[21] and was concurrently accredited to Greece from March 2000 to July 2003. He then served as Ambassador to Belgium (from 22 August 2003)[2] with concurrent accreditation to the European Union, the Netherlands (from 22 October 2003),[22] Luxembourg and the Holy See.[7][23] In this capacity, he represented Singapore together with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Law S. Jayakumar at the funeral mass of Pope John Paul II in the Vatican City on 8 April 2005,[24] believed to be the largest gathering of heads of state in history.[25] In 2006, the Vatican made Woon a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great,[26] which is conferred on Roman Catholic men and women in recognition of their service to the Church, unusual labours, support of the Holy See, and the good example set in their communities and country.

Solicitor-General and Attorney-General

Woon was appointed to the post of Second Solicitor-General on 3 October 2006,[27] and Solicitor-General on 2 July 2007.[28] In 2007, he was also made a Senior Counsel. Between January 2007 and 31 March 2010, he was a member of the Advisory Board of the School of Law of the Singapore Management University.[29] In February 2008, Woon was appointed by the Ministry of Finance to chair a steering committee to review the Companies Act.[30]

Woon became Attorney-General on 11 April 2008.[31] Three months into the job, he created some controversy when delivering an off-the-cuff speech at the launch of the Law Society of Singapore's Public and International Law Committee. He said:

{{quote|[W]hen it comes to implementation [of human rights], there will be arguments about where the lines are to be drawn. And when there are new so-called rights, then there has to be debate – is it really a right? ... Just because some Western societies have accepted it, doesn't make it a human right. ... Many of these fanatics think: 'We've decided that this is human rights, therefore when Singapore does something, we're entitled to criticise them.' I say rubbish. You want to do it in your society, do it in your society. Don't come and tell us you draw the line for the rest of the world."[4][32]}}

In mid-May, Woon commented that an acquitted person may not be guilty in law, but guilty in fact. Two months later, without referring directly to these remarks, Judge of Appeal V.K. Rajah wrote in a judgment that such comments could undermine confidence in the courts' verdicts and the criminal justice system, which was based on the doctrine of the presumption of innocence.[33] The Minister for Law K. Shanmugam was asked in Parliament on 25 August 2008 to clarify the Attorney-General's comments. Shanmugam described the presumption of innocence as an "important and fundamental principle" which the Government was "absolutely committed to upholding". Nonetheless, it was "entirely possible for a person to have committed acts which amount to a crime and yet, there may be no conviction", as the trial process was designed to prove guilt and not innocence. He added: "It is for the courts, and the courts alone, to exercise judicial power and decide the question of guilt, in a trial."[34]

With effect from 20 May 2008, Woon was appointed a director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore.[35] He also served on the Presidential Council for Minority Rights between 2008 and 2010.[26]

Woon was the first Attorney-General in more than ten years to personally appear in court. On 28 July 2008, he argued before the Court of Appeal that a woman who had manipulated her teenage lover into killing her husband should be given a life sentence.[36] The Court held that a life sentence was inappropriate due to the defendant's psychiatric condition, and affirmed the nine-year jail term imposed by the High Court.[37] Woon elected to take proceedings against Tang Wee Sung, chairman of the company C.K. Tang which owns Tangs department store, for the illegal purchase of a human organ – a kidney – in the first case of its kind in Singapore.[38] The decision to do so was criticised by Dr. Lee Wei Ling, Director of the National Neuroscience Institute and daughter of Minister Mentor and former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, in an article published in The Straits Times on 5 September 2008.[39] Woon replied, pointing out a number of misconceptions she held as to the facts and the law, and emphasising that the prosecution had been brought as no one was above the law.[40] Subsequently, in response to further comments by Dr. Lee,[41] he wrote an extended article entitled "Wrong Facts and Faulty Logic" that appeared in The Straits Times on 18 September 2008.[42]

He also prosecuted a number of contempt of court cases, including suits against Dow Jones Publishing Company (Asia), Inc. for material published in The Wall Street Journal Asia;[43] against US-based lawyer Gopalan Nair for comments on his blog;[44] and against three Singapore Democratic Party supporters, John Tan Liang Joo, Isrizal bin Mohamed Isa and Muhammad {{Proper name|Shafi'ie}} Syahmi bin Sariman, who wore T-shirts bearing the image of a kangaroo dressed in a judge's gown outside the Supreme Court Building.[45] On 15 March 2010, in one of his last cases before his term of office ended, he defended the constitutionality of capital punishment in Singapore before the Court of Appeal in an appeal by a man sentenced to death for drug trafficking.[46]

At the third annual Singapore Children's Society Lecture entitled "Changing Social Mores: Protecting Children from Themselves?" on 31 October 2009, Woon expressed the view that prosecuting teenagers from having underage sex with each other served little purpose. "It's basically kids having sex ... What do you do if the couple think they're in love? It's less easy if the girl consents. ... The judges cannot do very much by themselves. Sending them [the teenagers] to jail per se will not make them reflect on their lives. That is the last thing that is going to happen. But good or ill, this is the framework that we have."[47]

Woon established a new division in the Attorney-General's Chambers for the prosecution of cases in the Subordinate Courts of Singapore to enhance the development of criminal litigation skills, and recruited a number of young and talented lawyers into the Singapore Legal Service. In 2008 he hosted the International Association of Prosecutors Conference in Singapore. He also assisted in the setting up of the Centre for International Law at NUS to improve international law expertise in Singapore and the region. He was Singapore's alternate representative on the High Level Task Force for the Drafting of the ASEAN Charter, a key constitutional document for ASEAN, which was signed in November 2007.[7] Subsequently, he co-authored a book entitled The Making of the ASEAN Charter (2009).[48]

Woon stepped down as Attorney-General on 10 April 2010 after a two-year term. In a media interview, he said that the post "was not a job I really wanted or enjoyed. I did it because I was asked to do the job. So I did my best under the circumstances with what I had."[49] When asked whether he had "annoyed the powers that be", he said:

{{quote|It's not unlikely that I have. Look, to be fair, nobody called me in the middle of the night to say you must do this, you must do that. ... Whether or not they're happy with me – this one you've got to ask PM [Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong]. This is a mutual parting of the ways. Best to leave before you outstay your welcome, although I think amongst some people, I've already outstayed my welcome.[49][50]}}

He subsequently clarified that when he said he had outstayed his welcome he had been "thinking more about the people I prosecuted rather than anything else", and that "I was kidding, I was being facetious".[51]

Return to academia

Woon returned to academia at NUS, and was appointed the first Dean of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education (SILE), a company incorporated by the Singapore Academy of Law on 18 January 2010 to manage the postgraduate practical training of graduates from local and overseas universities seeking admission to the Singapore Bar, training contracts, and continuing legal education for practising lawyers.[52] He has denied any intention to enter politics – "Why would I leave one hot seat to jump into another hot seat? I've said for years that I would want to go back to my natural habitat eventually. Why wouldn't anyone believe me?" – although when asked if he had forever ruled out a political career, he said: "Forever is a long time but definitely not now."[53] Subsequently, he reiterated in a Today interview: "I am not a politician and I am not interested in politics and have no desire to go into politics. I do not know why people do not believe me when I say so. I have said it a thousand times but people do not seem to believe me."[54]

Woon is currently Chairman of the Singapore International Law Society (since 2006), Judge Advocate General (since 2007), and President of the Goethe Institute Singapore (since 2010).[26] In 2015, Woon joined RHTLaw TaylorWessing LLP, one of the few largest law firms in Singapore, as its non-executive Chairman and Senior Consultant.

In September 2017, Woon wrote a piece in The Straits Times illuminating how the office of the Attorney-General carries out its prosecutorial function, and suggesting that this could be separated from its other role as legal advisor to the Government.[55]

Fiction writing

Woon won a consolation prize for a short story called The Body in Question which he submitted for the 1985 National Short Story Writing Competition.[56] In 2002, he published his first novel, The Advocate's Devil.[57] This was followed three years later by The Devil to Pay (2005). Both books are crime novels set in 1930s Singapore with Dennis Chiang, an English-educated Peranakan lawyer, as the protagonist. Woon has said that fiction writing was "something I did on the side when I got tired of writing non-fiction".[1] A reviewer of The Advocate's Devil commented: "That the author is a lawyer first and promising novelist second is most glaring in the language used in Devil. ... This must be the first made-in-Singapore whodunnit that needs to be read with a dictionary at hand." Although the protagonist Chiang's "view of human beings other than himself is patronising at best" and might leave readers with a "rather sour aftertaste", the novel's "light touches of romance and compassion do much to lift the storyline" and had "masterful pacing".[58]

Selected works

Non-fiction

Articles

  • {{citation|title=Precedents that Bind – A Gordian Knot: Stare Decisis in the Federal Court of Malaysia and the Court of Appeal, Singapore|journal=Malaya Law Review|year=1982|volume=24|pages=1–25}}.
  • {{citation|title=Ultra Vires and Corporate Capacity in Singapore|journal=Singapore Academy of Law Journal|year=1989|volume=1|pages=52–67}}.
  • {{citation|title=Some check is better than no check: Walter Woon reflects on opposition politics in Singapore|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=29 November 1990}}.
  • {{citation|title=Protecting the Minority Shareholder|journal=Singapore Academy of Law Journal|year=1992|volume=4|pages=123–132}}.
  • {{citation|title=The Scripless Trading System in Singapore|journal=International Journal of Law and Information Technology|year=1993|volume=1|issue=1|pages=77–89|doi=10.1093/ijlit/1.1.77}}.
  • {{citation|title=Regulation of the Securities Industry in Singapore|journal=Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal|year=1995|volume=4|pages=731–755}}.
  • {{citation|title=Crime and Punishment: The Problems of Sentencing|journal=Singapore Law Review|year=2009|volume=27|pages=1–11}}.

Book chapters

  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter|chapter=Protection of Shareholders and Investors|title=Papers on Duties & Liabilities of Company Directors in Public Listed Companies|location=Singapore|publisher=Professional Resources Agency|year=c. 1980}}.
  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter|last2=Chew|first2=Margaret|last3=Tjio|first3=Hans|chapter=Securities Regulation in Singapore|editor-last=Rosen|editor-first=Robert C. [et al.]|title=International Securities Regulation|location=[Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.]|publisher=Oceana Publications|year=1986|isbn=978-0-379-20825-2}}.
  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter|chapter=Nominated MPs: Some Check is Better than No Check [ch. 3]|editor-last=da Cunha|editor-first=Derek, ed.|title=Debating Singapore: Reflective Essays|location=Singapore|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|year=1994|pages=15–18|isbn=978-981-3016-82-8}}
  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter|chapter=Securities Regulation [ch. 7]|editor-last=Chong|editor-first=Amelyn, ed.|title=The Business Guide to Singapore|location=Singapore|publisher=Butterworth-Heinemann Asia|year=1997|pages=138–164|isbn=978-981-00-6793-9}}.
  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter|chapter=Singapore|editor-last=Tan|editor-first=Poh-Ling, ed.|title=Asian Legal Systems: Law, Society, and Pluralism in East Asia|location=Sydney|publisher=Butterworths|year=1997|isbn=978-0-409-31008-5}}.
  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter|chapter=The Applicability of English Law in Singapore [ch. 6] and The Doctrine of Judicial Precedent [ch. 8]|editor-last=Tan|editor-first=Kevin Y[ew] L[ee], ed.|title=The Singapore Legal System|edition=2nd|location=Singapore|publisher=Singapore University Press|year=1999|pages=230–248 and 297–323|isbn=978-9971-69-212-4}}.

Books

  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter C.M.|title=Commercial Law of Singapore: An Introduction|location=Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; Dover, N.H.|publisher=Woodhead-Faulkner|year=1986|isbn=978-0-85941-281-0}}.
  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter C.M.|title=Company Law|location=Singapore|publisher=Longman Singapore Publishers|year=1988|isbn=978-9971-89-959-2}}. Later editions:
    • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter C.M.|title=Company Law|edition=2nd|location=Singapore|publisher=FT Law & Tax Asia Pacific|year=1997|isbn=978-981-3069-32-9}}.
    • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter C.M.|title=Company Law|edition=2nd (student)|location=Selangor, Malaysia|publisher=Sweet & Maxwell Asia|year=1997|isbn=978-983-9088-51-9}}.
    • {{citation|last=Tan|first=Cheng Han|authorlink=Tan Cheng Han|last2=Woon|first2=Walter C.M.|title=Walter Woon on Company Law|edition=3rd|location=Singapore|publisher=Sweet & Maxwell/Thomson Reuters|year=2009|isbn=978-981-08-2593-5}}.
  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter C.M., ed.|title=The Singapore Legal System|location=Singapore|publisher=Longman|year=1989|isbn=978-9971-89-962-2}}. Later edition:
    • {{citation|last=Tan|first=Kevin Y[ew] L[ee], ed.|title=The Singapore Legal System|edition=2nd|location=Singapore|publisher=Singapore University Press|year=1999|isbn=978-9971-69-212-4}}.
  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter C.M.|last2=Hicks|first2=Andrew|title=The Companies Act of Singapore: An Annotation|location=Singapore|publisher=Butterworths Asia|year=1989|isbn=978-0-409-99568-8}}. Later editions:
    • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter C.M.|title=Woon's Corporations Law|location=Singapore|publisher=LexisNexis|year=1994|isbn=978-0-409-99692-0}}.
    • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter C.M.|title=Woon's Corporations Law|location=Singapore|publisher=LexisNexis|year=2005|isbn=978-0-409-99692-0}}.
  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter C.M.|title=Regionalisation of Corporate & Securities Law: The Singapore and Malaysia Experience|location=[Brisbane]|publisher=Asia Pacific Economic Law Forum|year=1994|oclc=221428384}}.
  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter Cheong Ming, advisory ed.|title=Malaysian and Singapore Company and Securities Law Reports|location=Singapore|publisher=Butterworths Asia|year=1994|isbn=978-0-409-99695-1}}.
  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter C.M.|title=Basic Business Law in Singapore|location=Singapore; New York|publisher=Prentice Hall|year=1995|isbn=978-981-00-2888-6}}. Later edition:
    • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter C.M.|title=Basic Business Law in Singapore|edition=2nd|location=Singapore|publisher=Prentice Hall|year=2000|isbn=978-981-4058-25-4}}.
  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter C.M.|last2=Hicks|first2=Andrew|title=The Companies Act of Malaysia: An Annotation|location=Singapore|publisher=Butterworths Asia|year=1996|isbn=978-0-409-99834-4}}.
  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter C.M.|title=Butterworths' Annotated Statutes of Singapore: Companies and Securities|location=Singapore|publisher=Butterworths Asia|year=1997|isbn=978-0-409-99843-6}}.
  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter C.M.|title=Butterworths Handbook of Singapore Securities Law|location=Singapore|publisher=Butterworths Asia|year=1998|isbn=978-0-409-99938-9}}.
  • {{citation|last=Koh|first=Tommy|authorlink=Tommy Koh|last2=Manalo|first2=Rosario G.|author2-link=Rosario Manalo|last3=Woon|first3=Walter, eds.|title=The Making of the ASEAN Charter|location=Hackensack, N.J.|publisher=World Scientific Publishing Co.|year=2009|isbn=978-981-283-390-7}}.

Fiction

  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=C.M.|title=The Advocate's Devil|location=Singapore|publisher=Times Books International|year=2002|isbn=978-981-232-393-4}}.
  • {{citation|last=Woon|first=Walter C.M.|title=The Devil to Pay|location=Singapore|publisher=Marshall Cavendish Editions|year=2005|isbn=978-981-261-235-9}}.

Notes

1. ^1 2 {{citation|author=Rajan Chettiar|title=Roving ambassador|url=http://www.lawgazette.com.sg/2003-4/Apr03-lifestyle.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060101181305/http://www.lawgazette.com.sg/2003-4/Apr03-lifestyle.htm|archivedate=1 January 2006|magazine=Singapore Law Gazette|date=April 2003|accessdate=17 April 2010}}.
2. ^1 2 {{citation|title=Appointment of Singapore's Ambassador to The Kingdom of Belgium and Singapore's Ambassador to The Federal Republic of Germany |url=http://app.mfa.gov.sg/internet/press/view_press_print.asp?post_id=871 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302193107/http://app.mfa.gov.sg/internet/press/view_press_print.asp?post_id=871 |archivedate=2 March 2012 |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs |date=5 August 2003 |accessdate=16 April 2010 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}.
3. ^{{citation|author=Ravi Veloo|title=The calm behind the storm|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=11 October 1992}}.
4. ^1 {{citation|author=Lydia Lim |title='Human rights' label often abused |url=http://app.mfa.gov.sg/pr/read_content.asp?View,10534, |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302193123/http://app.mfa.gov.sg/pr/read_content.asp?View,10534, |archivedate=2 March 2012 |newspaper=The Straits Times (reproduced on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website) |date=4 July 2008 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}.
5. ^{{citation|author=K.C. Vijayan|title=Walter Woon, the 'accidental' lawyer|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=17 April 2008}}.
6. ^{{citation|title=Professor Woon Cheong Ming Walter (consultant)|url=http://www.ylp.com.sg/html/lawyer_template.jsp?id=114|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120714020244/http://www.ylp.com.sg/html/lawyer_template.jsp?id=114|archivedate=14 July 2012|publisher=Yeo-Leong & Peh LLC|year=2003}}.
7. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{citation|title=Advisory Board member: Professor Walter Woon, SC|url=http://www.law.smu.edu.sg/about_school/advisory_board/walterwoon.asp|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525113240/http://www.law.smu.edu.sg/about_school/advisory_board/walterwoon.asp|archivedate=25 May 2008|publisher=Singapore Management University|date=27 June 2008|accessdate=13 April 2010}}.
8. ^{{citation |title = Alumni News: Singapore |url = http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Johnian_News_24.pdf |format = PDF |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20131030201223/http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/index.php?q=system%2Ffiles%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fdocuments%2FJohnian_News_24.pdf |archivedate = 30 October 2013 |journal = Johnian News |date = 2008 |issue = 24 (Michaelmas Term 2008) |page = 3 |quote = St John's hosted its first alumni event in Singapore on Tuesday 2 September at The Arts House – Singapore's first court house and former parliament house. ... Professor Walter Woon (LLM 1983), Attorney General of Singapore, toasted the College and spoke of his appreciation of the all-round education that he received at St John's and its individual approach to the teaching of every student. |deadurl = yes |df = dmy}}
9. ^{{citation|author=Walter C.M. Woon|title=Company Law|location=Singapore|publisher=Longman Singapore Publishers|year=1988|isbn=978-9971-89-959-2}}.
10. ^{{citation|title=Elected President should sever all links with political parties|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=16 November 1990}}. The report of the Select Committee was published as {{citation|title=Report of the Select Committee on the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore (Amendment No. 3) Bill (Bill No. 23/90) [Parl. 9 of 1990]|location=Singapore|publisher=Printed for the Government of Singapore by the Singapore National Printers|year=1990}}.
11. ^{{citation|author=Sumiko Tan|title=Stand up and be quoted|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=6 July 1991|page=28}}.
12. ^{{citation|title=Not a Charter? Ridiculous!|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=8 July 1991|page=22}}.
13. ^{{Singapore Hansard|mp=Tan Soo Khoon|mplink=Tan Soo Khoon|office=Speaker of Parliament|title=Nominated Members of Parliament (Announcement by Mr. Speaker)|url=http://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/topic.jsp?currentTopicID=00062885-ZZ|date=14 September 1992|volume=60|column=175}}; {{Singapore Hansard|mp=Tan Soo Khoon|title=Nominated Members of Parliament (Announcement by Mr. Speaker)|url=http://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/topic.jsp?currentTopicID=00064378-ZZ|date=31 October 1994|volume=63|column=598}}; {{Singapore Hansard|mp=Tan Soo Khoon|title=Nominated Members of Parliament (Announcement by Mr. Speaker)|url=http://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/topic.jsp?currentTopicID=00065349-ZZ|date=1 October 1996|volume=66|column=562}}. See also {{citation|author=Anna Teo|title=Two leading businessmen among six to be NMPs|newspaper=Business Times|location=Singapore|date=2 September 1992}}; {{citation|title=Six people selected to be NMPs|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=2 September 1992}}; {{citation|author=Chua Mui Hoong|author2=Ng Wei Joo|author3=Maria Siow|title=Group made up of diverse individuals and ideas|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=2 September 1992}}; {{citation|author=Chua Mui Hoong|author2=Ng Wei Joo|author3=Maria Siow|title=The six chosen ones – who they are and what they hope to do|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=2 September 1992}}; {{citation|author=Zuraidah Ibrahim|title=Six new NMPs officially appointed|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=8 September 1992}}; {{citation|author=Tan Sai Siong|title=NMP scheme a success thanks to Walter Woon and Kanwaljit Soin|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=3 July 1994}}.
14. ^{{citation|author=G. Pierre Goad|title=Singapore's language drive stirs an energetic debate over values|newspaper=The Asian Wall Street Journal|date=28 October 1992|page=1}}.
15. ^{{citation|author=Walter Woon|title=Good values can be passed on in any language|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=13 September 1992}}. George Yeo responded in {{citation|last=Yeo|title=Values are passed on by ideas as well as emotions|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=20 September 1992}}.
16. ^{{citation|title=9 MPs picked for panel to review Companies Bill|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=30 September 1992}}. The Select Committee's report was published as {{citation|title=Report of the Select Committee on the Companies (Amendment) Bill (Bill No. 33/92) [Parl. 2 of 1993]|location=Singapore|publisher=Printed for the Government of Singapore by the Singapore National Printers|year=1993}}.
17. ^{{Singapore legislation|title=Maintenance of Parents Act|cap=167B|ed=1996}}.
18. ^{{citation|author=Sue-Ann Chia|title=Know the past to tackle the future|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=11 March 2010|page=B14}}. The first ever Act since 1965 originating from a private member's bill was the Roman Catholic Archbishop Bill introduced by P. Selvadurai and Chiang Hai Ding in 1974 and passed the following year as the Roman Catholic Archbishop Act (now {{Singapore legislation|cap=375|ed=1985}}). This was a private act, not a public one: Chia, ibid. See also {{citation|author=Walter Woon|title=Honor thy father and mother – or else|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=28 June 1994|page=A18}}; {{citation|title=Govt gives backing to Parents Bill|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=27 July 1994}}; {{citation|author=Walter Woon|title=Family matters|magazine=Far Eastern Economic Review|date=11 August 1994|page=30}}; {{citation|title=Parents maintenance bill passed|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=3 November 1995}}.
19. ^{{citation|title=Walter Woon makes Time list of 100 young world leaders|newspaper=Business Times|location=Singapore|date=29 November 1994}}.
20. ^[1995] 1 S.L.R.(R) [Singapore Law Reports (Reissue)] 803.
21. ^{{citation|title=Walter Woon named envoy to Germany|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=7 January 1998}}; {{citation|author=Yang Razali Kassim|title=Switching from critic to diplomat|newspaper=Business Times|location=Singapore|date=20 January 1998}}; {{citation|title=Walter Woon on envoy role|newspaper=Business Times|location=Singapore|date=20 January 1998}}; {{citation|title=Helping the world to understand S'pore better: Walter Woon on his role as envoy|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=21 January 1998}}.
22. ^{{citation|title=MFA press statement: Appointment of Singapore's Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands |url=http://app.mfa.gov.sg/internet/press/view_press_print.asp?post_id=911 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302193139/http://app.mfa.gov.sg/internet/press/view_press_print.asp?post_id=911 |archivedate=2 March 2012 |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs |date=20 October 2003 |accessdate=16 April 2010 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}; {{citation|title=New envoy to Holland|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=21 October 2003}}.
23. ^{{citation|author=Pope John Paul II|authorlink=Pope John Paul II|title=Address of John Paul II to H.E. Mr. Walter Woon, new Ambassador of Singapore accredited to the Holy See|url=http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2003/december/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20031212_singapore-ambassador_en.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051106071841/http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2003/december/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20031212_singapore-ambassador_en.html|archivedate=6 November 2005|publisher=The Vatican: Holy See|date=12 December 2003|accessdate=17 April 2010}}.
24. ^{{citation|title=Extraordinary missions representing states and international and supranational organizations in the funeral mass of His Holiness John Paul II|url=http://www.vatican.va/gpII/documents/delegazioni-uff-esequie-jp-ii_20050408_en.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080219130857/http://www.vatican.va/gpII/documents/delegazioni-uff-esequie-jp-ii_20050408_en.html|archivedate=19 February 2008|publisher=The Vatican: Holy See|date=8 April 2005|accessdate=18 April 2010}}.
25. ^{{citation|title=Pope John Paul II buried in Vatican crypt: Millions around the world watch funeral|url=http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/08/pope.funeral/index.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080316102402/http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/08/pope.funeral/index.html|archivedate=16 March 2008|publisher=CNN|date=9 April 2005|accessdate=18 April 2010}}.
26. ^1 2 {{citation|title=Academic profiles: WOON Cheong Ming, Walter, S.C.|url=http://www.law.nus.edu.sg/about_us/faculty/staff/profileview.asp?UserID=lawwcm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100817225253/http://law.nus.edu.sg/about_us/faculty/staff/profileview.asp?UserID=lawwcm|archivedate=17 August 2010|publisher=Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore|accessdate=20 April 2012}}.
27. ^{{citation|author=K.C. Vijayan|title=Walter Woon joins A-G's Chambers as Solicitor-Gen|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=25 September 2006}}; {{citation|title=Professor Walter Woon appointed Second Solicitor-General of Singapore |url=http://www.wwlegal.com/Article780.html |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5oxpbWW8q?url=http://www.wwlegal.com/Article780.html |archivedate=13 April 2010 |publisher=WWLegal.com |accessdate=13 April 2010 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}.
28. ^{{citation|author=Sara Lim|title=Nathan makes key legal appointments|newspaper=Business Times|location=Singapore|date=10 April 2008}}.
29. ^{{citation|title=Advisory Board |url=http://www.law.smu.edu.sg/about_school/advisory_board.asp |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5p5V83otW?url=http://www.law.smu.edu.sg/about_school/advisory_board.asp |archivedate=18 April 2010 |publisher=Singapore Management University |date=13 April 2010 |accessdate=18 April 2010 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}.
30. ^Now the {{Singapore legislation|title=Companies Act|cap=50|ed=2006}}: see {{citation|title=MOF reviewing Companies Act for greater accountability and transparency|publisher=Channel NewsAsia|date=20 February 2008}}; {{citation|title=Revision to Companies Act will not have overly prescribed rules|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=4 March 2008}}.
31. ^{{citation|author=Ben Nadarajan|author2=Chong Chee Kin|title=Walter Woon takes over as A-G tomorrow: Outgoing A-G Chao Hick Tin to resume Judge of Appeal post|url=http://www.law.smu.edu.sg/news_and_events/documents/Walter%20Woon%20takes%20over%20as%20A-G%20tomorrow.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720090040/http://www.law.smu.edu.sg/news_and_events/documents/Walter%20Woon%20takes%20over%20as%20A-G%20tomorrow.pdf|dead-url=yes|archive-date=20 July 2011|format=PDF|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=10 April 2008}}; {{citation|author=Leong Wee Keat|title=S'pore gets first female Solicitor-General; Koh Juat Jong takes over from Walter Woon, who is new AG|newspaper=Today|date=10 April 2008|page=6}}; {{citation|author=Ansley Ng|title='Groomed' to be AG; Hands on and on his feet, that's Walter Woon|newspaper=Today|date=12 April 2008|page=6}}.
32. ^See also {{citation|author=Chong Chee Kin|title=A-G cautions against human rights becoming a 'religion' with fanatics|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=31 May 2008}}; {{citation|title=Do not confuse politics with the law: Singapore's new Attorney-General|newspaper=Today|date=30 May 2008|page=8}}; {{citation|author=Constance Singam|title=Human-rights 'fanatics' is what S'pore needs [letter]|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=6 June 2008}}; {{citation|author=Walter Woon|title=Human rights key to good governance but ... [letter]|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=9 June 2008}}; {{citation|author=Walter Woon|title='No one solution': A balance has to be struck between individual rights and overall good of society|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=9 June 2008}}.
33. ^XP v. Public Prosecutor [2008] 4 S.L.R.(R) 686 at para. 98, High Court: "The question for the court in every case is not whether it suspects the accused has committed the crime but whether the Prosecution has proved beyond any reasonable doubt that he has indeed committed it. It is trite that courts can never convict on the basis of suspicion and/or intuition. Such is the conclusion demanded by and enshrined in that cardinal principle, the presumption of innocence, upon which is founded the most elemental rule of the criminal justice system: that the Prosecution must establish guilt beyond any reasonable doubt. Objective and not subjective belief is the essential touchstone of guilt, and there is simply no place for subsequent speculation or implication that an acquitted accused may be 'factually guilty'." See also {{citation|author=K.C. Vijayan|title=Judge: No question of 'factual guilt' after acquittal: Justice V.K. Rajah takes issue with Govt's position on guilt and innocence|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=12 July 2008}}.
34. ^{{citation|author=K.C. Vijayan|title=Govt defends A-G's stand on acquittals: Law Minister reiterates that 'not guilty in law' does not mean 'innocent'|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=26 August 2008}}.
35. ^{{citation|title=Walter Woon named to MAS board|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=21 May 2008}}.
36. ^Woon represented the State four times in court when he was Second Solicitor-General and Solicitor-General: {{citation|author=Selina Lum|title=A-G to make rare court appearance today: He is expected to seek life term for woman who got teen to kill hubby|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=28 July 2008}}; {{citation|author=Selina Lum|title=A-G seeks life for woman who plotted hubby's killing|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=29 July 2008}}; {{citation|title=When the chief prosecutor of the state goes to court to personally argue a case ...|newspaper=Today|date=2 August 2008|page=6}}.
37. ^Public Prosecutor v. Aniza bte Essa [2009] 3 S.L.R.(R) 327, Court of Appeal. The High Court's decision was reported as Public Prosecutor v. Aniza bte Essa [2008] 3 S.L.R.(R) 832.
38. ^Tang was convicted of agreeing to pay for the supply of a kidney and sentenced to a fine of S$7,000; and for making false statements in a statutory declaration, for which he received one day's imprisonment and a $10,000 fine: Public Prosecutor v. Tang Wee Sung [2008] SGDC 262.
39. ^{{citation|author=Lee Wei Ling|title=Why mete out even a 'token sentence'?|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=5 September 2008}}.
40. ^{{citation|title=Tang case: No one is above the law |url=http://www.agc.gov.sg/docs/HOTA-080905.pdf |format=PDF |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5oxxmAEZ6?url=http://www.agc.gov.sg/docs/HOTA-080905.pdf |archivedate=13 April 2010 |newspaper=The Straits Times (reproduced on the Attorney-General's Chambers website) |date=9 September 2008 |accessdate=13 April 2010 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}.
41. ^{{citation|author=Lee Wei Ling|title=Why a jail term shouldn't have been sought|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=10 September 2008}}.
42. ^{{citation|author=Walter Woon|title=Wrong facts and faulty logic|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=18 September 2008}}. A longer version is available on the website of the Attorney-General's Chambers as {{citation|author=Walter Woon |title=Justice, Compassion and Prosecutorial Discretion |url=http://www.agc.gov.sg/docs/HOTA-responsetoLWL2.pdf |format=PDF |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5oxuxhaqJ?url=http://www.agc.gov.sg/docs/HOTA-responsetoLWL2.pdf |archivedate=13 April 2010 |publisher=Attorney-General's Chambers |date=18 September 2008 |accessdate=13 April 2010 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}.
43. ^Attorney-General v. Hertzberg Daniel and others [2009] 1 S.L.R.(R) 1103, High Court. The submissions tendered by the Attorney-General's Chambers may be accessed at {{citation|author=Walter Woon |title=Attorney-General v. Hertzberg Daniel: Attorney-General's Submissions |url=http://www.agc.gov.sg/docs/WSJAAGSubswithhyperlinks.pdf |format=PDF |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5p2OP1ZoO?url=http://www.agc.gov.sg/docs/WSJAAGSubswithhyperlinks.pdf |archivedate=16 April 2010 |publisher=Attorney-General's Chambers |date=31 October 2008 |accessdate=16 April 2010 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}. See also {{citation|author=Sue-ann Chia|title=A-G draws the line on freedom of speech|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=5 November 2008}}; {{citation|author=Zakir Hussain|title=AG asks for deterrent fine for newspaper|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=5 November 2008}}; {{citation|author=Leong Wee Keat|title=25 years of axe-grinding; WSJA counters: Newspapers don’t wage such campaigns|newspaper=Today|date=5 November 2008|page=6}}; {{citation|author=Zakir Hussain|title=WSJ Asia publisher fined $25,000|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=26 November 2008}}; {{citation|author=Leong Wee Keat|title=Heaviest fine for contempt of court|newspaper=Today|date=26 November 2008|page=1}}.
44. ^See {{citation|title=Media background brief: Contempt of court proceedings against Gopalan Nair |url=http://www.agc.gov.sg/docs/MEDIA_BACKGROUND_BRIEF_Contempt_of_Court_GP_121108.pdf |format=PDF |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5p2OzWIAa?url=http://www.agc.gov.sg/docs/MEDIA_BACKGROUND_BRIEF_Contempt_of_Court_GP_121108.pdf |archivedate=16 April 2010 |publisher=Attorney-General's Chambers |date=12 November 2008 |accessdate=16 April 2010 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}, and the Attorney-General's submissions to the court at {{citation|author=Jeffrey Wah Teck Chan |title=Attorney-General v. Gopalan Nair: Submissions of the Attorney-General |url=http://www.agc.gov.sg/docs/GN_AG_subsm_071108.pdf |format=PDF |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5p2PDMWgu?url=http://www.agc.gov.sg/docs/GN_AG_subsm_071108.pdf |archivedate=16 April 2010 |publisher=Attorney-General's Chambers |date=12 November 2008 |accessdate=16 April 2010 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}.
45. ^Attorney-General v. Tan Liang Joo John and others [2009] 2 S.L.R.(R) 1132, High Court: see {{citation|title=Media background brief: Contempt of court proceedings against Tan Liang Joo John, Isrizal bin Mohamed Isa and Muhammad Shafi'ie Syahmi bin Sariman |url=http://www.agc.gov.sg/docs/Media_Background_Brief_Contempt_of_Court_Proceedings_27Nov08.pdf |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5p2PYlauq?url=http://www.agc.gov.sg/docs/Media_Background_Brief_Contempt_of_Court_Proceedings_27Nov08.pdf |archivedate=16 April 2010 |publisher=Attorney-General's Chambers |date=27 November 2008 |accessdate=16 April 2010 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}.
46. ^Yong Vui Kong v. Public Prosecutor [2010] 3 S.L.R. 489, C.A. The submissions tendered by the Attorney-General's Chambers may be accessed at {{citation |author=Walter Woon |title=Yong Vui Kong v. Public Prosecutor: Respondent's Arguments |url=http://www.agc.gov.sg/docs/CA13of2008_YongVuiKong_RespondentArguments.pdf |format=PDF |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5oxskZ01Q?url=http://www.agc.gov.sg/docs/CA13of2008_YongVuiKong_RespondentArguments.pdf |archivedate=13 April 2010 |publisher=Attorney-General's Chambers |date=5 March 2010 |accessdate=13 April 2010 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}. See also {{citation |author=Afua Hirsch |title=Heroin smuggler challenges Singapore death sentence: Lawyers for Yong Vui Kong argue country's policy of mandatory execution in drug cases is a breach of human rights |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/15/singapore-drug-execution-challenge-kong |newspaper=The Guardian |date=15 March 2010 }}; {{citation|title=Death row appeal: Apex court reserves decision|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=16 March 2010}}; {{citation |author=Ong Dai Lin |title='Clemency not matter for judiciary': Court metes sentences within parameters set by Parliament: AG |url=http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100316-0000062/Clemency-not-matter-for-judiciary |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100322210657/http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100316-0000062/Clemency-not-matter-for-judiciary |archivedate=22 March 2010 |newspaper=Today |date=16 March 2010 |page=2 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy-all }}.
47. ^{{citation|author=Shuli Sudderuddin|title=When teens have consensual sex ...: Such cases involving teens who are in love are hard to prosecute, says Attorney-General|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=1 November 2009}}.
48. ^{{citation|title=Statement from the Prime Minister's Office |url=http://www.pmo.gov.sg/News/PressReleases/Statement+from+the+Prime+Minister+s+Office.htm |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5oxtX0NK9?url=http://www.pmo.gov.sg/News/PressReleases/Statement+from+the+Prime+Minister+s+Office.htm |archivedate=13 April 2010 |publisher=Prime Minister's Office |date=3 March 2010 |accessdate=13 April 2010 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}.
49. ^1 {{citation|author=Zakir Hussain|author2=K.C. Vijayan|title=Longest two years of my life|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=13 April 2010|pages=A1 & A6}}. See also {{citation|author=K.C. Vijayan|title=A-G Walter Woon to step down|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=4 March 2010}}; {{citation|author=Zul Othman |title=AG Walter Woon to step down in April |url=http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100304-0000142/AG-Walter-Woon-to-step-down-in-April |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5p3wHysiy?url=http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100304-0000142/AG-Walter-Woon-to-step-down-in-April |archivedate=17 April 2010 |newspaper=Today |date=4 March 2010 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}; {{citation|author=Leong Wee Keat |title=They don't call me late night to tell me who to prosecute |url=http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100413-0000090/They-dont-call-me-late-night-to-tell-me-who-to-prosecute |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5oxr4QVFa?url=http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100413-0000090/They-dont-call-me-late-night-to-tell-me-who-to-prosecute |archivedate=13 April 2010 |newspaper=Today |date=13 April 2010 |page=1 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}; {{citation|author=Leong Wee Keat |title=They were the longest two years of my life: Former AG Walter Woon |url=http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100413-0000105/They-were-the-longest-two-years-of-my-life--Former-AG-Walter-Woon |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5oxrJws4l?url=http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100413-0000105/They-were-the-longest-two-years-of-my-life--Former-AG-Walter-Woon |archivedate=13 April 2010 |newspaper=Today |date=13 April 2010 |page=4 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}; {{citation|author=Leong Wee Keat |title=The hardest part was finding good people |url=http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100413-0000110/The-hardest-part-was-finding-good-people |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5oxrZtAvJ?url=http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100413-0000110/The-hardest-part-was-finding-good-people |archivedate=13 April 2010 |newspaper=Today |date=13 April 2010 |page=4 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}.
50. ^See also {{citation |author=P.N. Balji |title=An opportunity missed?: What Walter Woon's interview says of change in Singapore |url=http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100419-0000061/An-opportunity-missed? |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5p6yelnTE?url=http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100419-0000061/An-opportunity-missed |archivedate=19 April 2010 |newspaper=Today |date=19 April 2010 |page=12 |accessdate=19 April 2010 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}.
51. ^{{citation|author=Eugene Wee|author2=Tay Shi'an|title=What's the story, Prof Woon?: Former Attorney-General Walter Woon answers rumours that have been swirling around him on his exit|newspaper=The New Paper|date=23 April 2010|pages=2–4}}; {{citation|title=I was just kidding, says Walter Woon|url=http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100424-0000063/I-was-just-kidding,-says-Walter-Woon|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5pEbPHHtP|archivedate=24 April 2010|newspaper=Weekend Today|date=24–25 April 2010|page=6}}. For comment, see {{citation|author=M. Lukshumayeh|title=Enough already, Mr Woon: Former AG's comments beg even more questions|url=http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC100426-0000064/Enough-already,-Mr-Woon|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5pGvcJlZa|archivedate=26 April 2010|newspaper=Today|date=26 April 2010|page=11}}.
52. ^{{citation|title=Professor Walter Woon appointed first Dean of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education|url=http://www.sal.org.sg/Lists/NewsReleases/DispForm.aspx?ID=37&Source=http%3A//www.sal.org.sg/Content/pressroom_news_releases.aspx|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5oxqqG4g7?url=http://www.sal.org.sg/Lists/NewsReleases/DispForm.aspx?ID=37&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sal.org.sg%2FContent%2Fpressroom_news_releases.aspx|archivedate=13 April 2010|publisher=Singapore Academy of Law|date=3 March 2010|accessdate=13 April 2010|deadurl=yes|df=dmy-all}}.
53. ^{{citation|author=Kor Kian Beng|title=Politics? Not now|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=6 March 2010}}.
54. ^{{citation|author=Conrad Raj |title=Former AG to shake up how criminal law is taught: Walter Woon on injecting realism into law studies, luring top lawyers into academia |url=http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100527-0000080/Former-AG-to-shake-up-how-criminal-law-is-taught |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5q5LAi2no?url=http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC100527-0000080/Former-AG-to-shake-up-how-criminal-law-is-taught |archivedate=29 May 2010 |newspaper=Today |date=27 May 2010 |page=4 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy }}.
55. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/the-public-prosecutor-politics-and-the-rule-of-law|title=The public prosecutor, politics and the rule of law|last=hermes|date=2017-09-29|work=The Straits Times|access-date=2018-02-28|language=en}}
56. ^{{citation|author=Tess Wong|title=Turning to a life of crime|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=19 August 2002}}. The National Library holds an unpublished microfilm copy shelved at NL27697.
57. ^{{citation|title=Advocate of Baba culture|newspaper=Business Times|location=Singapore|date=17 August 2002}}.
58. ^{{citation|author=Cheong Suk-Wai|title=A Devil of a murder tale|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=14 September 2002}}.

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Further reading

  • {{citation|author=Jason Leow|title=I did it because I believed in it|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=17 July 1997}}.
  • {{citation|author=Chua Mui Hoong|title=Is Walter Woon still as vocal after going global?|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=3 November 2006}}.
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