V. K. Rajah

Who is V. K. Rajah?

Vijaya Kumar Rajah, better known as V. K. Rajah, is a Singaporean judge. He graduated from the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law in 1982 and obtained his Masters of Law from the University of Cambridge in 1986. His father, Thampore Thamby Rajah, better known as T. T. Rajah, was a leader of the former Singaporean left-wing political party Barisan Sosialis.

Rajah was among the first batch of lawyers in Singapore to be appointed Senior Counsel in 1997, and was once the managing partner of law firm Rajah & Tann. He was also part of the NUS law school moot team which won the Philip C. Jessup International Law moot competition in 1982, a first for NUS. The other members of the team were Davinder Singh, Jimmy Yim, and Steven Chong.

He was first appointed Judicial Commissioner in 2 January 2004, Judge of the High Court in 1 November 2004, and subsequently Judge of Appeal in April 2007.

Rajah's publications include Judicial Management in Singapore. He was also the chair of a committee that produced an influential report in 2007 reviewing Singapore's legal sector.