Philip Antony Jeyaretnam (born 1964) is a lawyer from Singapore. He is a Senior Counsel in Singapore, and President of the Singapore Law Society. He is also well known as a fiction writer. He is the younger son of the late veteran Singaporean opposition politician J.B. Jeyaretnam and Margaret Walker, and is of Sri Lankan Tamil and English descent.
The young Philip received his early education at Raeburn Park School and the United World College of...
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Philip Antony Jeyaretnam (born 1964) is a lawyer from Singapore. He is a Senior Counsel in Singapore, and President of the Singapore Law Society. He is also well known as a fiction writer. He is the younger son of the late veteran Singaporean opposition politician J.B. Jeyaretnam and Margaret Walker, and is of Sri Lankan Tamil and English descent.
The young Philip received his early education at Raeburn Park School and the United World College of South East Asia in Singapore, and the Charterhouse School in Surrey, United Kingdom. He then read law at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, and graduated with First Class Honours in 1986. He was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1987, and was conferred the title Senior Counsel in 2003. In 1991, he was a Fulbright Fellowship visitor to the University of Iowa International Writers' Program, and the Harvard Law School. He is an avid reader on subjects pertaining to history, science, anthropology and of course, literature.
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