Yeo and Saheran received their letters of appointment from Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat at a ceremony here this afternoon.

They took their oaths of office before Justice Akhtar Tahir, the most senior judge in the High Court of Malaya, as they will be posted to courts in the peninsula.

They will serve the judiciary on a two-year contract.

Yeo, 63, a law graduate from Universiti Malaya, was with the Attorney-General’s Chambers and served mostly in the prosecution and civil divisions.

He was the Customs Appeals Tribunal chairman between 2015 and 2017, and the Industrial Court president for three years until he retired in 2020.

Saheran, 64, is a graduate from the University of London and was admitted as a barrister at Gray’s Inn in 1984.

He started as a legal assistant in 1985 and was later a partner in several legal firms until 2015.

He has served as a consultant in two legal firms in Kuala Lumpur for the past nine years.

With their appointments, there are now 41 judicial commissioners serving in the High Court of Malaya, and the High Court of Sabah and Sarawak.

Also present at the event were Court of Appeal president Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim and Attorney-General Ahmad Terrirudin Salleh.