Tey Tsun Hang

Tey Tsun Hang (born 1970–1972; ) is a Malaysian former lawyer, legal academic, and judge of the Subordinate Courts of Singapore.

Education Tey received an LLB from King's College London and a BCL from St Hugh's College, the University of Oxford.

Career Tey was appointed assistant professor of law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1997, before undertaking a clerkship at the Supreme Court of Singapore in 2000. He later became a prosecutor and district judge, before returning to NUS as an associate professor.

On 28 May 2013, Tey was convicted of corruption for allegedly procuring gifts and intimate relations from a student for better grades, following which he was also fired from NUS. At trial, Tey defended himself, though he later opted to appeal the decision while serving the five-month jail term, through a new lawyer, Peter Low. and was subsequently acquitted. The appeal was only decided after he had completed his sentence; in the High Court's decision, Justice Woo Bih Li found that, although Tey had indeed abused his position to engage in sexual relations with a student, he was not guilty of corruption as the relationship was not entered into for grades.

After his release, Tey claimed that his prosecution was politically motivated, which a 2014 article in the Australian Journal of Asian Law supported. Through his lawyer at the time, M Ravi, Tey also filed for judicial review of his dismissal from NUS, arguing that his tenure protected him from dismissal.

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