He was educated at the King Edward VII School and St. George's Institution in Taiping and the University of London.
The other members of his commission comprised Ms P. G. Lim, Enche M. Shankar, Mrs Rosalind Y. C. Foo and DatinJamaki Athi Nahappan.
who had a brilliant mind, quick to grasp a point but who always gave Counsel his say and listened intently, to say that the Privy Council upheld his judgment in the subsequent appeal.
[12] If not for H. T., Chan Sek Keong, Singapore's Chief Justice, might have taken much longer to enter the legal profession.
Society of the Middle Temple, made legal history when he and Tan Sri Ismail Khan, a Barrister-At-Law of the Hon.
Society of the Middle Temple as well, were the first 2 local private practitioners to be elevated to the Bench of the High Court States of Malaya after Independence.