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Peter Low

Singaporean lawyer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ121079733 ↗
Source-derived summary

Peter Cuthbert Low is a Singaporean lawyer who was the 16th President of the Law Society of Singapore from 1993 to 1994. Low is known for his human rights advocacy and litigation in Singapore.

Life and career

Low was a public and military prosecutor from 1977 to 1981, qualifying at the Singapore bar in 1980. In 1991, he joined the local law firm Drew and Napier.

In 2023, he was awarded the CC Tan award by the Law Society.

Personal life

Low is a Catholic. He is married with three daughters, Christine and Elaine.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Peter Low” as singaporean lawyer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 1994, 1977, 1981—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Peter, Singaporean and lawyer can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as singaporean lawyer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q121079733. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1993, 1994, 1977 and 1981.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Peter Low” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.