[4] Amongst the many honours and accolades he has received include winning the ALB South East Asia "Dispute Resolution Lawyer of the Year" award twice[5] and being the first lawyer from the Asia-Pacific region to be inducted into the Benchmark Litigation Hall of Fame.
[9] Singh completed his early education in the Lasallian Saint Michael's School, following in his two older brothers' footsteps.
He nevertheless performed well in his GCE Ordinary Level examinations, enabling him entry into the newly-established National Junior College, then a prestigious government school in Singapore.
The principal set the students a test, and looking at Singh's paper, asked him whether his father was a lawyer.
Singh, however, was attending law school on a scholarship from DBS Bank, which came with a job and a bond.
That year, he attempted the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington, D.C., with three friends, Steven Chong, V. K. Rajah and Jimmy Yim.
The team became the first from the National University of Singapore to win the prestigious moot, and Singh was named the Best Oralist in the Championship round.
[9] By the end of law school, Singh had decided not to join DBS Bank as in-house counsel.
This lecturer recommended him to Harry Elias, then a lawyer at Drew & Napier, who offered Singh pupillage at his firm.
[9] In 2005, Singh represented Singapore Press Holdings in a lawsuit brought against them by T. T. Durai, Chief Executive Officer of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), for defamation in relation to an article written by one of their correspondents.
On 7 November 2014, Justice Lee Seiu Kin found Ngerng to have defamed Lee Hsien Loong in an online article whose contents suggested that the Prime Minister was guilty of criminal misappropriation.
[11][12] In July 2015, during a hearing to assess the amount of damages he has to pay Lee Hsien Loong, Ngerng broke down in tears while he was being cross-examined by Singh.
Singh's parents were ardent admirers of Singapore's first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, and Singh knew that joining the People's Action Party would make his mother proud and would have made his late father proud too.
"[9] He also felt that contributing as a parliamentarian was a rare opportunity would add a valuable dimension to life.