Justice Kannan Ramesh was appointed Judicial Commissioner in May 2015, and Judge of the High Court in April 2017. He was also appointed as a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Brunei Darussalam (“SCBD”) on a part-time basis on 7 October 2019 where he hears both commercial and civil cases in SCBD.
He received his Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the National University of Singapore in 1990. He was then admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore in 1991, and appointed Senior Counsel in 2012.
Before his appointment as Judicial Commissioner, Justice Ramesh was Managing Partner of Messrs Tan Kok Quan Partnership from 2008, where he specialised in dispute resolution, insolvency and restructuring, and international arbitration.
He is a member of the Singapore Academy of Law’s Law Reform Committee, and Vice President and member of the Executive Committee of New York’s International Insolvency Institute. He was instrumental in establishing the Judicial Insolvency Network which issued in October 2016, guidelines for court-to-court communications and cooperation in cross-border insolvencies.
Justice Ramesh wrote “Getting the Deal Through – Restructuring and Insolvency in 51 Jurisdictions Worldwide in 2010”. He also authored the Singapore Chapter of the World Bank publication, Doing Business – Closing a Business Survey, published in 2009, 2010 and 2011.