preserved at the Singapore Supreme Court, thanks to the timely efforts of some senior staff members. An account of the dramatic events can be found in a memoir, ‘Fifty Years with Donaldson & Burkinshaw', by Mr. Norman Sylvester Hogan, an administrator who served the Firm for 50 years and retired in 1970. The post-war years, to the 1970s After the war, the firm continued to dominate the local legal arena as one of Singapore's top law firms. Its leaders continued to wield considerable influence in the early politico-legal developments of modern Singapore. When the 1954 Constitutional Commission of Singapore (better known as the Rendel Commission) was appointed by Governor Sir John Nicoll in July 1953 to undertake a comprehensive review of the constitution of the Colony, Mr. C F Smith, a senior partner of the Firm, was one of the Commission's non-official members. Following the independence of Singapore from British Rule, the Firm maintained offices in Malaysia at Johor and Kuala Lumpur, and in Sabah at Jesselton (now known as Kota Kinabalu) and Sandakan until the Promulgation of the Emergency (Essential Powers) Ordinance No. 30 of 1970. During this time, lawyers who were neither citizens nor permanent residents were barred from practising in West Malaysia. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Firm continued to attract and retain significant legal talent. Its senior partners Antony Purdon Godwin and Wu Chang-Sheng became prominent figures at the Singapore Litigation Bar. Wu Chang-Sheng, son of renowned plague-fighter Dr. Wu Lien-teh (himself credited with modernizing China's medical services and medical education), was particularly renowned for his expertise in construction arbitration. Godwin and Wu were also founding members of the Council of the Singapore Advocates and Solicitors Society (which subsequently became the Law Society of Singapore) in 1967. Henry Mosley Dyne, also a former senior partner, was regarded as a giant in the Chancery Bar until his retirement in 2000. From the 1980s to the present The firm has steadily grown and expanded its areas of practice over the years in step with the development of Singapore from a Crown Colony, to a part of the Federation of Malaysia, and later a sovereign nation. Today, it carries on the practice of Advocates and Solicitors, Notaries Public, Commissioners for Oaths and Agents for Trade Marks, Patents & Designs. The firm and its partners have been profiled in the Asia-Pacific Legal 500, Chambers Asia, Asia Law Profile, Who’s