Road closures, ceremonial parades and judicial wigs—the Opening of Legal Year (OLY) ceremonies in independent Singapore were vastly different from those of today. But some traditions and practices have endured, as this video details. Hear from former Registrar of the Supreme Court of Singapore Mr Tan Wee Kian as he tells us about a typical OLY in the mid-1960s.
Can you recognise the people in the video? Many have gone on to become giants of Singapore law.