How to become a Judge
Also called: Adjudicator, Chief justice, District court judge, High court judge, Judge of appeal, Judicial commissioner, Magistrate, Presiding judge (Family Justice Courts), Presiding judge (State Courts), Registrar in judiciary, Adjudicator, Chief justice
Judge presides over civil and criminal proceedings in courts of law.
Main tasks
- Presiding over trials and hearings
- Interpreting and enforcing rules of procedure and making rulings regarding the admissibility of evidence
- Determining the rights and obligations of the parties involved
- Weighing and considering evidence in non-jury trials and deciding legal guilt or innocence or degree of liability of the accused or defendant
- Passing sentence on persons convicted in criminal cases, determining damages or other appropriate remedy in civil cases and issuing court orders
- Researching legal issues and writing opinions on the issues
Ways in
- University: Law & Justice degrees, Offered by 3 universities in Singapore
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Related jobs
- Arbitrator/Mediator
- Advocate/Solicitor (practising)
- In-house legal counsel (excluding judiciary, ministries and statutory boards)
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Questions people ask
How do I become a Judge?
Ways in include: Law & Justice degrees.
Will AI change the work of a Judge?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026