Subhas Anandan (December 25, 1947 - January 7, 2015) is a prominent criminal lawyer in Singapore. He has appeared in numerous high-profile cases, including the 2010 case involving actress Quan Yi Fong hitting a taxi driver, and a 2008 case involving retail tycoon Tang Wee Sung trying to illegally buy kidneys from living donors. At the time of his death, he was a senior partner at the law firm RHTLaw Taylor Wessing LLP and headed his department in criminal law. He is the founding member and first president of the Singapore Criminal Law Association. He is also the president of Cuesports Singapore, the national sports association for billiards, snooker and swimming pools. Toward the end of his life, Anandan's health began to worsen and he died of heart failure in January 2015.
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Anandan was born on 25 December 1947 to Raman Anandan and Govindan Pushpanjaly, in Kerala, India. When he was five months old, the family migrated from Kerala to Singapore, where his father found employment as an employee of the Royal Navy. They stayed at the staff headquarters in the British naval base at Sembawang until his father retired in the early 1970s.
Anandan studied at elementary and secondary school at naval base, first at Admiralty Asian School and then Naval Base School. He excelled academically and sports, including cricket and soccer. In 1963, after reaching his first grade at Cambridge Senior (now the 'O' Level exam), he went to India to study medicine at Madras (now Chennai) under his mother's request. But after the first few lessons, he was convinced that he was not destined to be a doctor. He returned home after three months and started his pre-university education at the Raffles Institution in 1964.
After completing the Higher School Certificate (now 'A' Level) exam, he wanted to join the police force but eventually enrolled at the University of Singapore (now National University of Singapore) at the urging of his father. While pursuing a law degree, he participates in various extra-curricular activities, including playing on the university football team and serving as secretary-general of the Socialist Club. He obtained his law degree in 1970 and later became protà ©  © from Chan Sek Keong, then a senior partner at Shook Lin & amp; Bok and, later, a Singapore Supreme Court Justice.
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In March 1976, Anandan was arrested by a corrupt police officer suspected of involvement in a secret society under the Penal Code (Provisional Terms). He was released in November of the same year after an investigation by the Corruption Practices Investigation Bureau.
Anandan started the Singapore Criminal Lawyers Association in 2002, with the aim of increasing the number of criminal lawyers in the country. In 2011, Anandan, along with legal practitioners including Rajan Menon, founded RHTLaw TaylorWessing and remained as one of his senior partners until his death.
Anandan has started his practice of handling mainly civil cases, accidents and family but is immediately getting interested in criminal law. During his lifetime, he has handled over a thousand criminal cases involving a wide range of crimes, including murder, rape, harassment of domestic workers, drug trafficking, and white-collar offenses. Known for his sharp and stinging attacks in the courtroom, he was nicknamed "Basher" in the legal community. His presence in the palace has been marked as intimidating, given his sharp eyes and thick beard. As one of Singapore's leading criminal defense lawyers, he often appears in the media that some people call him a "publicity dog".
While Anandan is critical of some aspects of the criminal justice system in Singapore, he believes that the system must be followed. He also has a personal mantra "the most heinous actors who deserve their day in court of law"; then Anandan admitted to never refusing the case for the alleged offense to that person.
Personal life and death
Anandan was first applied to Singapore citizenship in 1972, but was told a decade later that his petition had been rejected. He tried again in 2002, and finally granted citizenship.
According to Anandan's book The Best I Could, former attorney general Francis Seow owed Anandan S $ 25,000 since the 1980s, after Seow left the country when faced with income tax expenses.
Anandan is very interested in large capacity cars. He developed this love in his high school days, when he saw other students driving or being carried around in luxury cars like Mercedes Benzes and Jaguar. In addition to having a luxury car, he likes to collect antique or miniature swords, swords and kris . He often goes to the Singapore Cricket Club to play snooker and billiards as a means of releasing work induced stress. He also spent most of his time at the Holy Tree of Sri Balasubramaniar Temple, where he was chairman of his Supervisory Board.
An active sportsman in his youth, Anandan took 22 drugs every day due to his deteriorating health in later years until his death. She had three heart attacks, and also had heart bypass and angioplasty. He also lost one kidney for cancer and suffered from diabetes.
Around 2300 hours (GMT 8) on January 7, 2015, Anandan died while being treated at the Singapore General Hospital due to a complication of heart failure, which was diagnosed in 2014. His death sparked an outpouring of grief especially among members of the legal industry in Singapore. Minister of Law K. Shanmugam praised Anandan as a "titan in criminal law" as well as "legal legend", while Attorney General V. K. Rajah praised his "miraculous legal intelligence". His funeral, which was attended by "hundreds", was held the following night and Anandan's body was cremated with a Hindu ritual on the same day.
Legacy
Anandan was awarded the Legal Eagle Award in 2001 given by the Law Society of Singapore.
Anandan was honored by the Muslim Bar Association on October 28, 2014 for his great contribution to the legal profession and a pro bono for decades. The award ceremony was held at the Supreme Court Auditorium and was attended by approximately 400 members of the legal community, including Minister of Justice K. Shanmugam, former President S. R. Nathan, Attorney General V. K. Rajah and several judges. At the ceremony, a newly formed S $ 250,000 "Newly Established Starter Funds" funded by S $ 250,000 will be provided with financial support to former inmates seeking further education and a second chance in the community, an excuse pioneered by Anandan during his career four decades. Anandan's 2009 book, The Best I Could , documented his more famous cases, adapted into the Channel 5 television series of the same name. It lasted for two seasons.
References
Bibliography
- Anandan, Subhas (2009). The Best I Could . Marshall Cavendish. ISBNÃ, 9812619585.
- Anandan, Subhas (2015). Easy to Cry . Marshall Cavendish. ISBN: 9789814561525.
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