Ang Cheng Hock

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Ang Cheng Hock (洪清福), born in 1970, is a Singaporean judge who currently serves as a Justice of the Court of Appeal of Singapore since October 2025. He studied law at the National University of Singapore, earning an LLB with first-class honours in 1995 after topping his class, and won the 1994 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. He then earned an LLM from Yale Law School in 1998 on the inaugural Singapore Academy of Law Scholarship. He was called to the Singapore Bar in 1996 and to the New York Bar in 1998, and he later became a partner at Allen & Gledhill.

Ang was appointed Judicial Commissioner in 2018, then served as a Judge of the High Court from 2019 to 2022. He became Deputy Attorney-General in October 2022, a role he held until May 2025. He returned to the High Court in May 2025 and, in October 2025, was appointed to the Court of Appeal. Notably, in 2020 he ruled that the government bears the burden of proof in proceedings under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA). He is active in Singapore’s legal community, holding leadership roles with the Singapore Academy of Law and serving on various legal committees. He is married.