After that he moved to the bench, serving first as a magistrate and from 1984 to 1989 as Master & Registrar and Judge in Bankruptcy.

He was sworn in as Chief Justice on 13 June 2007, succeeding Ariranga Pillay after the latter's retirement[2] and was replaced on 31 December 2013 by Kheshoe Parsad Matadeen.

He has also served as the Mauritian independent expert on the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

[5] Yeung Sik Yuen was born in Curepipe into a family of Hakka Sino-Mauritian businesspeople; his ancestors started out as shopkeepers and grew their company into various fields.

[3][6] He did his secondary education at St. Joseph's College, Curepipe and then in 1966 went to the United Kingdom to study law at the University of Leeds, completing his degree in 1969.