During his legal career, he was known for having both prosecuted and defended murderers such as Sunny Ang, Mimi Wong and Tan Mui Choo.
After being accused of tax evasion, Seow left for the United States for health treatment, subsequently disregarding numerous court summons to return to Singapore to stand trial.
Seow was born in 1928 in Singapore[1] and educated at Saint Joseph's Institution before he read law at the Middle Temple and became a qualified lawyer.
Seow had envisaged a restoration of the role of the Law Society to comment on legislation that the government churned out without any meaningful parliamentary debate, to which Lee took special exception.
On 8 October 2011, Seow and Tang Fong Har publicly addressed a Singapore Democratic Party forum via teleconferencing.
In a 1989 interview in London, Seow told The Sunday Times that he would return to Singapore to face tax evasion charges.
[9] On 16 October 2007, Amnesty International issued a public statement mentioning Seow as one of two prominent Singaporean lawyers who were penalised for exercising their right to express their opinions.
Chee Soon Juan, the secretary-general of the Singapore Democratic Party, announced the news of Seow's death on his Facebook page.
[15] In his semi-autobiography, To Catch a Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew's Prison,[16] Seow wrote about his career in the Singapore Legal Service, opposition politics and his personal experience of being detained by the Internal Security Department.