President appoints two new High Court judges

The President of the Republic of Singapore, in accordance with Article 95(1) of the Constitution, has appointed Judicial Commissioners Mohamed Faizal Mohamed Abdul Kadir (莫哈默费扎尔) and Sushil Sukumaran Nair (苏西尔.耐尔) as Judges of the High Court with effect from 9 March 2026.

Judicial Commissioner Mohamed Faizal Mohamed Abdul Kadir

2          Judicial Commissioner Mohamed Faizal Mohamed Abdul Kadir was appointed Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court on 2 May 2024 for a period of two years.

3          Judicial Commissioner Faizal graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (1st Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore in 2005. He also obtained a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School in 2009. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2020.

4          He joined the Legal Service in 2005 as a Justices’ Law Clerk in the Supreme Court and was subsequently appointed Assistant Registrar. Thereafter, he was posted to the Attorney-General’s Chambers’ (AGC) Criminal Justice Division in 2007 as Deputy Public Prosecutor/State Counsel and later to the State Prosecution Division. He then served as General Counsel & Director (Legal) at the Singapore Medical Council for about one and a half years before returning to the AGC in 2015 as Director of the Criminal Justice Division. He assumed the position of Deputy Chief Prosecutor in the same division from March 2018 to December 2022 and was then appointed the Second Chief Prosecutor in the Crime Division.

5          As Judicial Commissioner, his areas of focus have been in building and construction, shipbuilding, complex and technical cases, company, insolvency and trust matters, family matters and torts.

Judicial Commissioner Sushil Sukumaran Nair

6          Judicial Commissioner Sushil Sukumaran Nair was appointed Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court on 1 April 2025 for a period of one year.

7          Judicial Commissioner Nair graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the National University of Singapore in 1989. He was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1990 and joined Drew & Napier LLC. He was in practice for about 35 years and dedicated the majority of his time to restructuring work, particularly in the Asia Pacific region. He was concurrently the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Drew & Napier LLC and Head of its Corporate Restructuring and Workout practice group.

8          As Judicial Commissioner, he has been hearing cases on civil matters such as finance, securities, banking, complex commercial cases, company, insolvency, trusts, arbitration, defamation, professional negligence and statutory torts.

9          With these appointments, the Supreme Court will have a total of 35 Judges (including the Chief Justice, five Justices of the Court of Appeal, four Judges of the Appellate Division, 19 Judges of the High Court, one Judicial Commissioner, and five Senior Judges) and 26 International Judges.

Issued by:

Prime Minister’s Office

9 March 2026

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