SINGAPORE – Tributes have flowed for Emeritus Professor Tan Yock Lin, a senior law professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), who died after he was involved in an accident at Upper Thomson Road on Friday morning. He was 70.
A spokesman for the NUS law faculty told The Straits Times on Sunday morning that Prof Tan had been a member of the faculty since 1982.
“He was not just a dedicated colleague but also a mentor, especially to those starting out on their careers. He gave of his time to others cheerfully and without reservation,” she said in a statement. “Yock Lin will be sorely missed.”
Ms Indranee Rajah, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and a former lawyer, lamented Prof Tan’s “tragic” passing in a Facebook post.
She said that he was her tutor and remembered him “for his kindness and unfailing patience as he taught us how to come to grips with legal concepts and principles”.
“Prof Tan’s passing is a great loss to legal academia and is felt not just by his faculty colleagues but by many cohorts of lawyers who acquired their legal foundations in his classes,” she added.
The Thomson Road accident involved four vehicles: a car, a van, a lorry and a bus. A video of the accident posted on Facebook by Shin Min Daily News showed a white lorry running over a road divider and crashing into a black car travelling in the opposite direction. The 26-year-old driver of the lorry has been arrested for careless driving causing death.
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