新加坡律师中的律师：“Senior Counsel” 每年2-3位

Senior Counsel 的头衔和相应的权利是通过在名字后面加上“SC”的缩写来表示的。他们在法庭和法庭上享有比其他律师更高的优先权。每年，由新加坡首席大法官主持的新加坡律师协会（SAL）的 Senior Counsel 选拔委员会，会评估申请并任命应得此殊荣的人为 Senior Counsel。至今，已有98人被任命为 Senior Counsel。【每年2-3位，包含Honoris causa荣誉头衔】

Senior Counsel 是通过委员会选拔和任命的，申请者必须提交申请成为 Senior Counsel。选拔过程是由《法律职业法》（Legal Professions Act，“LPA”）规定的。选拔委员会由首席大法官、总检察长和上诉法院的法官组成，每年会考虑 Senior Counsel 职位的申请者。【出庭律师、检察官、最高院法官助理等显然有评选优势】

在新加坡，Senior Counsel 通常是律师界的佼佼者，他们在法律实践、学术和专业发展方面都有显著的贡献。他们不仅在法庭上享有崇高的地位，而且在法律界内部也被视为领导者和榜样。

随便选择一位委任较晚的高级律师的简历供参考：

KOH Swee Yen, Senior Counsel,【高级律师一般都如此称呼和宣传："名字，SC"】 is the Head of the International Arbitration Practice and a Partner in the Commercial & Corporate Disputes and Commodities & International Trade Practices.  

Her practice has a particular focus on complex, high-value and multi-jurisdictional disputes involving asset recovery, commodities, energy, fraud, infrastructure, international trade, joint ventures, transport and technology. She regularly appears before the Singapore Courts (including the Singapore International Commercial Court) and in international commercial and investment arbitrations under the major institutional rules, including ICSID, ICC, ICDR, LCIA, SIAC, and UNCITRAL. She is admitted to the Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales and also has rights of audience before the DIFC Courts. 【迪拜国际金融法庭出庭资格】

Swee Yen graduated with First Class Honours from the National University of Singapore (NUS). She was awarded the Singapore Academy of Law prize for being the top student in her final year, and won subject prizes for Evidence and Procedure and Intellectual Property Law. Swee Yen served as a Justices' Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of Singapore before entering private practice. During her time in practice, she received appointments as Law Clerk to assist the Competition Appeal Board in the first and subsequent appeals lodged against the Competition Commission of Singapore's Infringement Decisions relating to price fixing matters, and was also on the Supreme Court's Young Amicus Curiae scheme in 2010.

Swee Yen is the Co-Chair of the IPBA Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee, and an officer of the IBA Asia Pacific Regional Forum. She has been appointed as a member of the ICC Court, and was also the former Vice-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee, and a member of the ICCA-ASIL Task Force on Damages. She is also a Board member of the Swiss Arbitration Association, and a member of the LCIA Asia Pacific Users’ Council. She has sat as an arbitrator in HKIAC, ICC, LCIA, SCC and SIAC administered arbitrations, and is on the Panel of Arbitrators of the AIAC, BICAM, BAC/BIAC, HKIAC, KCAB and SIAC. She has been designated by Singapore to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators, being one of only four designees.

In addition to being on the Executive Committee of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy, Swee Yen is the President of the Singapore branch of the International Law Association, and on the Governing Board for the Centre of International Law, NUS.

Swee Yen was a member of the Civil Justice Commission whose work culminated in the promulgation of the new Rules of Court 2021 which seeks to effect transformative changes to the litigation process in Singapore.

She is appointed by the Ministry of Home Affairs as a member of the Public Entertainment Appeal Board, Criminal Law Advisory Committee (Hearing), Citizenship Committee of Inquiry and is also a member of the Gambling Regulatory Authority's Patron Dispute Committee. She is also a Board member of the Singapore Land Authority.

98位SC完整名单：

https://www.sal.org.sg/Services/Appointments/Senior-Counsel/Directory