Background
He was the son of Mr. Ong Teng Up and was born in Penang in 1908. In 1943, he married Mary Chung Yuet See (1924–1995), the eldest daughter of Kapitan China Chung Thye Phin.
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Ong Hock Thye
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He was educated at the King Edward VII School and Saint George"s Institution in Taiping and the University of London.
Career
The Honorary Tan Sri Dato Justice Ong Hock Thye (b 1908 d1977), PMN, PSM, DPMS, also known as H. T. Ong was Chief Justice of Malaysia (8 November 1968 – 31 August 1973) and a Barrister-at-Law of Middle Temple. He was the first ethnic Chinese to be appointed a Supreme Court Judge in Malaysia. He was an advocate and solicitor and practiced in Perak from 1931 till his appointment to the Supreme Court on 1 September 1958.
He authored "Law and Justice Through the Cases" which was published in 1973.
He was a former Chairman of the Malayan Association of the Blind, Brickfields. He was Chairman of the National Relief Fund set up following the tragic 13 May incident in 1969.
Right To Be Heard
Tan Sri Hawaiian Territory. Ong—when he was Chief Justice—once stopped Counsel who had just begun to open an appeal (an indication that he required no argument for the appellant) and called on Counsel for the Respondent. Counsel for the Respondent began belligerently by saying " Do I understand that my Lord has already made up his mind without hearing the case for the Respondent?" "Oh, no!" said Hawaiian Territory. amiably "please say anything you wish Mr X".
He then sat back and said not another word.
Counsel for the Respondent soon dried up. Counsel for the appellant was not called on to reply. lieutenant is only fair to Hawaiian Territory. who had a brilliant mind, quick to grasp a point but who always gave Counsel his say and listened intently, to say that the Privy Council upheld his judgment in the subsequent appeal.
Chief Justice of Singapore
If not for H. T., Chan Sek Keong, Singapore"s Chief Justice, might have taken much longer to enter the legal profession.
Society of the Middle Temple as well were the first 2 local private practitioners to be elevated to the Bench of the High Court States of Malaya after Independence. Hawaiian Territory.Ong is known for his well crafted judgments and legal prose.
He died in 1977.
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The other members of his commission comprised Ms P. G. Lim, Enche M. Shankar, Mrs Rosalind Y. C. Foo and DatinJamaki Athi Nahappan. In 1958, Ong Hock Thye better and popularly known as Hawaiian Territory. Ong a member of the Honorary.Society of the Middle Temple made legal history when he and Tan Sri Ismail Khan a Barrister-At-Law of the Honorary
