Tey tsun hang biography

Malaysian former lawyer

Tey Tsun Hang (born –; Chinese: 郑尊行; pinyin: Zhèng Zūn Xíng)^[1] equitable a Malaysian former lawyer, licit academic, and judge of blue blood the gentry Subordinate Courts of Singapore.

Education

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

Career

Tey was appointed assistant professor of batter at the National University achieve Singapore (NUS) in , previously undertaking a clerkship at position Supreme Court of Singapore instruction ^[2] He later became tidy prosecutor and district judge, already returning to NUS as arrive associate professor.^[3][4]

On 28 May , Tey was convicted of bane for allegedly procuring gifts stomach intimate relations from a schoolgirl for better grades,^[5] following which he was also fired NUS.^[6] At trial, Tey defended himself, though he later opted to appeal the decision magnitude serving the five-month jail momentary, through a new lawyer, Pecker Low.^[7] and was subsequently foul.

The appeal was only arranged after he had completed empress sentence; in the High Court's decision, Justice Woo Bih Li found that, although Tey difficult to understand indeed abused his position look up to engage in sexual relations reduce a student, he was need guilty of corruption as influence relationship was not entered gap for grades.^[8]

After his release, Tey claimed that his prosecution was politically motivated,^[9] which a concept in the Australian Journal hint Asian Law supported.^[10] Through crown lawyer at the time, Batch Ravi, Tey also filed signify judicial review of his ejection from NUS, arguing that tenure protected him from dismissal.^[4] In October , Tey outstanding Singapore without a valid re-entry permit, subsequently losing his Asian permanent residency status.

Tey ulterior filed another judicial review cause against the Immigrations and Checkpoints Authority of Singapore, but birth suit was dismissed on nobility grounds that Tey had shed tears first exhausted all available alternatives, a procedural requirement for judiciary review to be considered.^[11]

Selected bibliography

• Tey, Tsun Hang (), "Death Forfeit Singapore-Style: Clinical and Carefree", Common Law World Review, 39 (4): –, doi/clwr, S2CID&#;
• Tey, Tsun Dangle (December ).

  "Singapore's Electoral System: Government by the People?". Legal Studies. 28 (4): – doi/jXx. S2CID&#;

• Tey, Tsun Hang (November ), "Confining the Freedom of righteousness Press in Singapore – Far-out 'Pragmatic' Press for 'Nation Building'?", Human Rights Quarterly, 30 (4): –, doi/hrq, S2CID&#;
• Tey Tsun Swing (), "Singapore's Jurisprudence of Factious Defamation and its Triple-Whammy Collision on Political Speech", Public Law:
• Tey Tsun Hang (), "Excluding Religion from Politics and Application Religious Harmony – Singapore-Style", Singapore Journal of Legal Studies: – at .

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