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Veteran criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan has died, aged 67
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That is because the money is not there. If you have a posh office at Republic Plaza serving MNCs and GLCs, you wouldn't want rapist, drug addicts to be loitering at your lobby in shorts and tattoos.
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if popularity were a yardstick to measure success, then we should all go fuck ourselves.
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Subhas Anandan (b. 1947, Kerala, India - ) is a prominent criminal defence lawyer in Singapore. He has appeared in numerous high-profile cases, including that of “one-eyed dragon” Tan Chor Jin and the kidney transplant case involving retail tycoon Tang Wee Sung. He is now a senior consultant in law firm KhattarWong and heads its criminal law department. He is a founding member and the first president of the Association of Criminal Lawyers of Singapore (ACLS). He is also the president of Cuesports Singapore, the national sports association for billiards, snooker and pool.
Early Life
Born to a Malayalee family, Anandan is the second of five children. When he was five months old, the family migrated from India to Singapore, where his father had found work as a clerk in the British Royal Navy. They lived in the staff quarters within the British naval base in Sembawang until his father retired in the early 1970s.
Anandan attended primary and secondary school in the naval base, first at Admiralty Asian School and then Naval Base School. Except for his first two years in secondary school, he was a good student who excelled academically and in sports, including cricket and football. In 1963, after achieving a first grade in his ‘O’ level examinations, he left for India to study medicine at Loyola College in Madras (now Chennai) to please his mother. But after the first few lessons, he was convinced that he was not meant to be a doctor. He returned home after three months and started his pre-university education at Raffles Institution in 1964.
After completing his ‘A’ level examinations, he wanted to join the police force but eventually enrolled in the University of Singapore at the insistence of his father. While pursuing a degree in law, he participated in various extra-curricular activities, including playing on the university’s football team and serving as secretary-general of the Socialists’ Club. He obtained his law degree in 1970 and went on to do his pupilage at Shook Lin & Bok under Chan Sek Keong, then a senior partner at the firm and currently the chief justice of Singapore.
Career
Shortly after he was called to the Bar in 1971, Anandan started his own practice, sharing the premises of a law firm run by his friend M. P. D. Nair, a former legislative assemblyman. However he suffered a major setback in 1976, when he was arrested for alleged involvement in a secret society and sent to prison without trial. He was released nine months later on a police supervision order, which required him to stay indoors between 7 pm and 6 am daily and report to the police every Saturday. He returned to his law practice after the incident and merged his firm with Nair’s to form M. P. D. Nair & Co. In 1987, he found himself in another potentially damaging situation - he was charged with gross professional misconduct for allegedly acting as a political aide to his client, opposition politician J. B. Jeyaretnam. However, he was cleared of the charge. Following Nair's death in 1989, he became the managing partner of M. P. D. Nair & Co.
In 2000, Anandan closed the firm and joined Harry Elias Partnership as a consultant to help build up its criminal practice. In recognition of his achievements, the Law Society of Singapore honoured him with the Legal Eagle Award of 2001. Going beyond defending clients, he helped to set up ACLS in 2004 to contribute to the development of criminal law and promote the interests of criminal lawyers in Singapore. In 2007, he joined KhattarWong and, having proven his prowess in the criminal arena, expressed his interest in taking on more civil cases in addition to heading the firm’s criminal practice.
Still, criminal law has been Anandan’s passion. He had started his practice handling mainly civil, accident and family cases but soon began gravitating towards criminal law. To date, he has handled over 1,500 criminal cases involving a wide range of crimes, including murder, rape, maid abuse, drug trafficking and white-collar offences. Known for his sharp and stinging attacks in the courtroom, he is nicknamed “the basher” within the legal community. His piercing eyes, bushy hair and thick beard also give him an intimidating presence (though he has been described as jovial, affable and even soft-spoken outside the courtroom). As one of Singapore’s top criminal defence lawyers, he has appeared so frequently in the media that some people have called him a publicity hound.
While he is critical of some aspects of the criminal justice system in Singapore, he believes that the system must be followed. Subscribing to the tenet that everyone deserves a proper defence regardless of the crime, he has defended clients accused of the most horrifying crimes despite the condemnation and occasional death threats that he receives. He claims to have never rejected cases because of what the person had been charged with.
His most infamous convicted clients include:
Abdul Nasir Amer Hamsah - caused the death of a Japanese tourist in her room at Oriental Hotel while trying to rob her, and then attempted to escape from the police lock-up by taking an officer hostage;
Constance Chee - caused four-year-old Sindee Neo, daughter of her former lover, to fall to her death;
Took Leng How - killed eight-year-old girl Huang Na;
“Kallang body parts murderer” Leong Siew Chor - killed and dismembered his lover Liu Hong Mei;
Anthony Ler - planned his wife’s murder and coached a 15-year-old boy to commit the deed; and
“One-eyed dragon” Tan Chor Jin - shot a nightclub owner several times thus killing him.
Personal Life
Anandan has a penchant for big-capacity cars that stems from his secondary school days, when he saw other students driving or being driven around in luxury cars like Mercedes Benzes and Jaguars. Besides owning luxury cars, he likes collecting antique or miniature swords, sabres and Malay krises. He often goes to the Singapore Cricket Club to play snooker, which helps him relax when he is working on a case. He also spends a lot of time at the Holy Tree Sri Balasubramaniar Temple, where he is currently serving as chairman of its board of trustees.
Formerly an active sportsman, he now takes 15 to 16 types of medication every day because of his poor health. He has had three heart attacks and undergone a heart bypass and an angioplasty. He has lost one kidney to cancer and is diabetic.
Family
Wife: Vimala Kesavan, whom he calls Vimi. She worked with him in M. P. D. Nair & Co and was the late Nair’s sister-in-law.
Children: One son, Sujesh.
Parents: Father R. Anandan and mother Govindan Pushpanjaly, both deceased.
Sisters: Subhashini and Sugadha.
Brothers: Sudheesan and the late Surash, who was one of the crew members that perished when the Singapore Airlines flight SQ006 crashed in Taiwan on 31 October 2000. Surash was also a well-known national footballer in the 1970s.
Author
Valerie Chew
References
Anandan, S. (c2009). Subhas Anandan: The best I could. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions.
(Call no.: RSING 340.092 ANA)
Breaking point: New criminal lawyers’ association set up. (2004, October 25). The New Paper. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from Factiva database.
Chan, C. (2007, May 16). Regrets? He has a few... The New Paper. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from Factiva database.
Chong, E. (2003, December 7). Murderers. Maid abusers. Rapists. And he defends them all. The Straits Times. Retrieved on March 4, 2011, from NewspaperSG.
Dhillon, H. K. (2008, April). Interview with criminal lawyer, Mr Subhas Anandan. Juris Illuminae, 4. Retrieved January 27, 2010, from http://www.singaporelawreview.org/2008/04/interview-with-criminal-lawyer-mr-subhas-anandan/
Kutty, N. G. (1976, November 17). I will go back to law practice after court vacation: Subhas. The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from NewspaperSG database.
Kutty, N. G., & Pereira, G. (1976, November 16). Subhas freed after probe. The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from NewspaperSG database.
Lawyer cleared of professional misconduct rap. (1987, November 21). The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from NewspaperSG database.
Mdm Govindan Pushpanjaly [Obituary]. (1995, July 6). The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from NewspaperSG database.
Nadarajan, B. (2008, November 30). Inside killer minds. The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from Factiva database.
R. Anandan [Obituary]. (1984, November 14). The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from NewspaperSG database.
Subhas case: CPIB probe. (1976, March 22). The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from NewspaperSG database.
Tan, O. B. (1998, April 26). Courtroom Raja got a taste of jail. The Straits Times. Retrieved on March 4, 2011, from NewspaperSG.
Tan, O. B. (2000, July 10). Criminal lawyer turns consultant. The Straits Times. Retrieved on March 4, 2011, from NewspaperSG.
Vijayan, K. C. (2007, May 10). Top criminal lawyer set to join KhattarWong. The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from Factiva database.
Yap, S. (2008, June 30). Soaring legal eagle. The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from Factiva database.
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Lawyers--Singapore--Biography
Law and government>>Criminal law
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All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2010.
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Subhas Anandan (b. 1947, Kerala, India - ) is a prominent criminal defence lawyer in Singapore. He has appeared in numerous high-profile cases, including that of “one-eyed dragon” Tan Chor Jin and the kidney transplant case involving retail tycoon Tang Wee Sung. He is now a senior consultant in law firm KhattarWong and heads its criminal law department. He is a founding member and the first president of the Association of Criminal Lawyers of Singapore (ACLS). He is also the president of Cuesports Singapore, the national sports association for billiards, snooker and pool.
Early Life
Born to a Malayalee family, Anandan is the second of five children. When he was five months old, the family migrated from India to Singapore, where his father had found work as a clerk in the British Royal Navy. They lived in the staff quarters within the British naval base in Sembawang until his father retired in the early 1970s.
Anandan attended primary and secondary school in the naval base, first at Admiralty Asian School and then Naval Base School. Except for his first two years in secondary school, he was a good student who excelled academically and in sports, including cricket and football. In 1963, after achieving a first grade in his ‘O’ level examinations, he left for India to study medicine at Loyola College in Madras (now Chennai) to please his mother. But after the first few lessons, he was convinced that he was not meant to be a doctor. He returned home after three months and started his pre-university education at Raffles Institution in 1964.
After completing his ‘A’ level examinations, he wanted to join the police force but eventually enrolled in the University of Singapore at the insistence of his father. While pursuing a degree in law, he participated in various extra-curricular activities, including playing on the university’s football team and serving as secretary-general of the Socialists’ Club. He obtained his law degree in 1970 and went on to do his pupilage at Shook Lin & Bok under Chan Sek Keong, then a senior partner at the firm and currently the chief justice of Singapore.
Career
Shortly after he was called to the Bar in 1971, Anandan started his own practice, sharing the premises of a law firm run by his friend M. P. D. Nair, a former legislative assemblyman. However he suffered a major setback in 1976, when he was arrested for alleged involvement in a secret society and sent to prison without trial. He was released nine months later on a police supervision order, which required him to stay indoors between 7 pm and 6 am daily and report to the police every Saturday. He returned to his law practice after the incident and merged his firm with Nair’s to form M. P. D. Nair & Co. In 1987, he found himself in another potentially damaging situation - he was charged with gross professional misconduct for allegedly acting as a political aide to his client, opposition politician J. B. Jeyaretnam. However, he was cleared of the charge. Following Nair's death in 1989, he became the managing partner of M. P. D. Nair & Co.
In 2000, Anandan closed the firm and joined Harry Elias Partnership as a consultant to help build up its criminal practice. In recognition of his achievements, the Law Society of Singapore honoured him with the Legal Eagle Award of 2001. Going beyond defending clients, he helped to set up ACLS in 2004 to contribute to the development of criminal law and promote the interests of criminal lawyers in Singapore. In 2007, he joined KhattarWong and, having proven his prowess in the criminal arena, expressed his interest in taking on more civil cases in addition to heading the firm’s criminal practice.
Still, criminal law has been Anandan’s passion. He had started his practice handling mainly civil, accident and family cases but soon began gravitating towards criminal law. To date, he has handled over 1,500 criminal cases involving a wide range of crimes, including murder, rape, maid abuse, drug trafficking and white-collar offences. Known for his sharp and stinging attacks in the courtroom, he is nicknamed “the basher” within the legal community. His piercing eyes, bushy hair and thick beard also give him an intimidating presence (though he has been described as jovial, affable and even soft-spoken outside the courtroom). As one of Singapore’s top criminal defence lawyers, he has appeared so frequently in the media that some people have called him a publicity hound.
While he is critical of some aspects of the criminal justice system in Singapore, he believes that the system must be followed. Subscribing to the tenet that everyone deserves a proper defence regardless of the crime, he has defended clients accused of the most horrifying crimes despite the condemnation and occasional death threats that he receives. He claims to have never rejected cases because of what the person had been charged with.
His most infamous convicted clients include:
Abdul Nasir Amer Hamsah - caused the death of a Japanese tourist in her room at Oriental Hotel while trying to rob her, and then attempted to escape from the police lock-up by taking an officer hostage;
Constance Chee - caused four-year-old Sindee Neo, daughter of her former lover, to fall to her death;
Took Leng How - killed eight-year-old girl Huang Na;
“Kallang body parts murderer” Leong Siew Chor - killed and dismembered his lover Liu Hong Mei;
Anthony Ler - planned his wife’s murder and coached a 15-year-old boy to commit the deed; and
“One-eyed dragon” Tan Chor Jin - shot a nightclub owner several times thus killing him.
Personal Life
Anandan has a penchant for big-capacity cars that stems from his secondary school days, when he saw other students driving or being driven around in luxury cars like Mercedes Benzes and Jaguars. Besides owning luxury cars, he likes collecting antique or miniature swords, sabres and Malay krises. He often goes to the Singapore Cricket Club to play snooker, which helps him relax when he is working on a case. He also spends a lot of time at the Holy Tree Sri Balasubramaniar Temple, where he is currently serving as chairman of its board of trustees.
Formerly an active sportsman, he now takes 15 to 16 types of medication every day because of his poor health. He has had three heart attacks and undergone a heart bypass and an angioplasty. He has lost one kidney to cancer and is diabetic.
Family
Wife: Vimala Kesavan, whom he calls Vimi. She worked with him in M. P. D. Nair & Co and was the late Nair’s sister-in-law.
Children: One son, Sujesh.
Parents: Father R. Anandan and mother Govindan Pushpanjaly, both deceased.
Sisters: Subhashini and Sugadha.
Brothers: Sudheesan and the late Surash, who was one of the crew members that perished when the Singapore Airlines flight SQ006 crashed in Taiwan on 31 October 2000. Surash was also a well-known national footballer in the 1970s.
Author
Valerie Chew
References
Anandan, S. (c2009). Subhas Anandan: The best I could. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions.
(Call no.: RSING 340.092 ANA)
Breaking point: New criminal lawyers’ association set up. (2004, October 25). The New Paper. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from Factiva database.
Chan, C. (2007, May 16). Regrets? He has a few... The New Paper. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from Factiva database.
Chong, E. (2003, December 7). Murderers. Maid abusers. Rapists. And he defends them all. The Straits Times. Retrieved on March 4, 2011, from NewspaperSG.
Dhillon, H. K. (2008, April). Interview with criminal lawyer, Mr Subhas Anandan. Juris Illuminae, 4. Retrieved January 27, 2010, from http://www.singaporelawreview.org/2008/04/interview-with-criminal-lawyer-mr-subhas-anandan/
Kutty, N. G. (1976, November 17). I will go back to law practice after court vacation: Subhas. The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from NewspaperSG database.
Kutty, N. G., & Pereira, G. (1976, November 16). Subhas freed after probe. The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from NewspaperSG database.
Lawyer cleared of professional misconduct rap. (1987, November 21). The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from NewspaperSG database.
Mdm Govindan Pushpanjaly [Obituary]. (1995, July 6). The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from NewspaperSG database.
Nadarajan, B. (2008, November 30). Inside killer minds. The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from Factiva database.
R. Anandan [Obituary]. (1984, November 14). The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from NewspaperSG database.
Subhas case: CPIB probe. (1976, March 22). The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from NewspaperSG database.
Tan, O. B. (1998, April 26). Courtroom Raja got a taste of jail. The Straits Times. Retrieved on March 4, 2011, from NewspaperSG.
Tan, O. B. (2000, July 10). Criminal lawyer turns consultant. The Straits Times. Retrieved on March 4, 2011, from NewspaperSG.
Vijayan, K. C. (2007, May 10). Top criminal lawyer set to join KhattarWong. The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from Factiva database.
Yap, S. (2008, June 30). Soaring legal eagle. The Straits Times. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from Factiva database.
The information in this article is valid as at 2010 and correct as far as we are able to ascertain from our sources. It is not intended to be an exhaustive or complete history of the subject. Please contact the Library for further reading materials on the topic.
Subject
Anandan, Subhas, 1947-
Lawyers--Singapore--Biography
Law and government>>Criminal law
Personalities>>Biographies
All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2010.
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RIP Mr S Anandan
They should have given you the SC title instead of those shameless under-deserving clowns this past weekend who don't even have a decent half fucked record to shore up their name......
just goes to show wtf kinda joke is that fucking title.....
RIP Mr S Anandan
They should have given you the SC title instead of those shameless under-deserving clowns this past weekend who don't even have a decent half fucked record to shore up their name......
just goes to show wtf kinda joke is that fucking title.....
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You left out JBJ.
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What about Palakrishnan ?
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Choo Si Sen is best for making representations to the AG and helping convicted criminals to mitigate before sentencing.
He even got a PRC lady who shot and killed a police officer David Tan, off a murder charge - she was merely sent to prison for 16 months. Tan was asleep when the PRC lady took his gun and shot him dead.
3 shots were fired.
If it was just one shot, it could have been accidental. But 3 shots? Still an accident?
He even got a PRC lady who shot and killed a police officer David Tan, off a murder charge - she was merely sent to prison for 16 months. Tan was asleep when the PRC lady took his gun and shot him dead.
3 shots were fired.
If it was just one shot, it could have been accidental. But 3 shots? Still an accident?
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Choo Si Sen is one fucking idiiot who is not highly regarded amongst his peers.....no fucking court craft and is a has been....
i will still go with Sunil anytime.....
RIP mama!!!!
Who did he vote for?
Lawyers that did not stand on their belief for human right and represent the people on government vs people cases will not earn peoples' respect.
Bohlumpar Singapore lawyers do not earn our respect.
Lawyers that did not stand on their belief for human right and represent the people on government vs people cases will not earn peoples' respect.
Bohlumpar Singapore lawyers do not earn our respect.
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Published on Jan 07, 2015
[h=1]Veteran criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan has died, aged 67[/h][h=2][/h]
By Lim Yi Han
SINGAPORE - Criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan, 67, died in Singapore General Hospital on Wednesday morning.
Senior lawyer Amolat Singh, a long-time friend of Mr Subhas, confirmed the news with The Straits Times.
He said: "Everybody is in utter disbelief. It's a very shocking piece of news, like a bolt out of the blue. He was out and about, always giving people encouragement. There was never a moment that we thought he was going so soon. He was always a fighter."
Mr Subhas had been in ill health, and he was diagnosed with heart and kidney failure last year. He had three heart attacks since 1978, lost one kidney to cancer in 2001, suffered diabetes and blocked intestines.
The prominent lawyer, a senior partner at RHTLaw Taylor Wessing and president of the Association of Criminal Lawyers in Singapore, had earned a reputation for defending notorious criminals, many a time pro bono.
He defended Anthony Ler, who hired a teenager to kill his wife in 2001; Took Leng How, a vegetable packer who befriended eight-year-old girl Huang Na, then killed her in 2004; and Leong Siew Chor, who chopped up a woman he killed in the Kallang body parts case.
Another client was ex-stewardess Constance Chee, who abducted her ex-lover's four-year-old daughter and caused her death after a fall from a flat in 2004.
In his career, he had taken on more than 2,500 cases since he was called to the Bar in 1971 after graduating from the then University of Singapore.
His second book, titled It's Easy To Cry, is due on the shelves later this year.
He leaves behind his wife, Vimala, 56, and son Sujesh, 24.
Not just lawyers. Judges also will be accounted for those verdict they had passed.
Hey Romagnum, not funny but normal especially from a lawyer.
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He was prominent too. But JBJ, imo, won by a nose!
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