Prosecutor v tey tsun hang singapore doesnt go for sex with students either national university of singapore law professor tey tsun hang has been convicted of six charges of corrupt intention and guilty knowledge in a singapore court by chief district judge tan siong thye, reports bloomberg. Tey tsun hang gave a statement to reporters after being charged with corruption on 27 july. National university of singapore law professor and former district judge tey tsun hang addresses the crowd of reporters outside the courtroom on july 27, 2012. Law professor tey tsun hang claimed he had knelt before cpib deputy director teng khee fatt out of desperation when they met in mr tengs office on april 5, 2012, the day when he was discharged. Nov 28, 2018 back in 20, nus law professor tey tsun hang was terminated for abusing his position as a lecturer. A rhodes scholar, he is also the secretarygeneral of the asian society of international law and editor of the asian journal of international law. The nus law professor who allegedly had sex on multiple occasions with a 22 year old law student in exchange for better grades for her final year elective was associate professor tey hsun hang. Law professor tey tsun hang, left, arrives at court in singapore on june 3, 20. Sexforgrades professor tey tsun hang seeking court order to. Feb 28, 2014 former national university of singapore nus law professor tey tsun hang, 42, served a fivemonth sentence last year after he was found guilty by a district court of six charges of corruption over his relationship with his thenstudent darinne ko in 2010.
Jul 25, 2012 law professor tey tsun hang, 41, was making a mockery of the process and running rings around this system, said deputy public prosecutor andre jumabhoy in the sexforgrades corruption trial on thursday. Exnus lecturer tey tsun hang fails in bid to get back pr. Professor tang hang wu of smu school of law, professor michael hor of nus law viewinside. Exlaw prof fails in bid to challenge nus, singapore news. Jul 27, 2012 law professor tey tsun hang, 41, was charged in court on jul 27 with six offences in relation to a sexforgrades graft probe involving former student darinn. National university of singapore law professor tey tsun hang, 41. Singapore professor convicted in sexforgrades case. National university of singapore law professor tey tsun hang has been convicted of six charges of corrupt intention and guilty knowledge in a singapore court by chief district judge tan siong thye, reports bloomberg.
Professor tang hang wu of smu school of law, professor michael hor of nus law. Tey was previously charged with corruption a sex for grades case. One of his classmates, david allen professor david allen when i interviewed him in. Prosecutor v tey tsun hang singapore doesnt go for. Sex for grades trial continued the latest twist tey. He revisited the issue of the two cheque book entries he claimed would show that.
Anticorruption developments in singapore ten things to. Ho peng kee born 9 may 1954 is a singaporean legal academic and former politician. Former national university of singapore nus lecturer tey tsun hang. High court overturns former nus law profs sexforfavours. Thus, his current charges are not politically motivated unlike some who believed him. Trusts and forced heirship by tey tsun hang singapore. Darinne ko wen hui and tey tsun hang in the latest news, darinne ko wen hui is said to be the lady who had sex with her professor tey tsun hang in the latest case of sex. Adding comments from agc former national university of singapore law professor tey tsun hang, who was previously convicted in a sexforgrades scandal, was on friday morning acquitted of all his charges in singapores high court on appeal. Former national university of singapore law professor tey tsun hang said on friday that the sexforfavours case against him was politically motivated right from the beginning. Jan 10, 20 a young lawyer testifying against her former law professor in a sexforgrades case said in court thursday that she lost her virginity to him.
Both former national university of singapore law professor tey tsun hang and excivil defence chief peter lim started their jail terms on wednesday. In his first response to yahoo singapore via email right after his acquittal from six corruption charges, he also spoke strongly against singapores judiciary and prosecutorial regime, saying he had no. Tey tsun hang vs public prosecutor citation 1150721 court. The verdict on the corruption trial involving law professor tey tsun hang will be delivered on may 28. Mr tey is appealing against his corruption conviction and jail sentence. How to get rid of the excess salt and msg in your body. Singapore court overturns professors conviction in sexfor. Singapore the former law professor in the sexforgrades case has failed in his bid to get back his permanent residency. Singapore high court overturns sexforfavors conviction. Feb 28, 2014 academic cleared in sexforgrades case. These two sexual encounters form the crux of the prosecutions case against nus law professor tey tsun hang, who faces six charges of obtaining gratification in the form of sex and gifts from miss ko. Former national university of singapore nus law professor tey tsun hang, 42, served a fivemonth sentence last year after he was found guilty by a district court of six charges of corruption. Law professor suffers panic attack in court sexfor.
She had met him when he had been her teacher for a module and they had gotten to know each other when she helped him do research for a book he was writing. Tey tsun hang started hyperventilating in court during the. But mr tey tsun hang wants back his old law professor job at. Both former national university of singapore law professor tey tsun hang and excivil defence chief peter. Professor tey tsun hang at subordinate courts, jul 27. To be a district judge as the age of 30 is a remarkable. Prosecution witness tells court tey didnt ask for gifts 15jan20. Muthucumaraswamy sornarajah born 24 april 1942 is a legal academic. The highprofile sexforgrades case involving former national university of singapore nus law professor tey tsun hang and his exstudent darinne ko. Former law professor tey tsun hang told his lawyer only five minutes before the hearing that he would not be present.
According to media reports, prof tey is married to. According to a the new paper tnp exclusive on wednesday, the equity professor was arrested in april and is now out on bail. Former law professor tey tsun hang, ex scdf chief peter. Justice woo bih li criticised his character strongly in court, however, calling him a man without honour. Sex for grades trial continued the latest twist tey tsun. Verdict on sexforgrades trial to be delivered on may 28. On 31 may 20, lim, the excommissioner of the singapore civil defence force scdf, was convicted of one charge of corruptly obtaining sexual gratification from a female general manager of a vendor in the it industry in exchange for favouring the business interests of her. Professor charged with trading better grades for sex faces up. Darinne ko wen hui is said to be the lady who had sex with her professor tey tsun hang in the. Feb 28, 2014 former national university of singapore law professor tey tsun hang inset was found guilty by a district court of six charges of corruption over his relationship with his thenstudent in 2010. He was later appointed a district judge of the subordinate courts. Tey tsun hang, a lecturer in the law faculty at the national university of singapore, was charged in court on july 27, 2012. Koh professor of law at the national university of singapore, 2 the tunku abdul rahman professor of law at the university of malaya, 3 and the former head of the school of law at the university of tasmania.
Tey tsun hang may have lost his job as a law professor after being found guilty of corruption in the sexforgrades trial. Nus professor tey tsun hang, 42, now faces jail terms and fines over his relationship with his thenstudent darinne ko in 2010. The singapore legal system and the strange case of professor tey. Nus law prof tey takes short break after hyperventilating. Others news he was a district judge, a public prosecutor and a lawyer in private practice. National university of singapore associate professor of law tey tsun hang was charged with corruption for allegedly trading better grades for sex with a female student. Conversely, both peter lim and tey tsun hang faced guilty verdicts. Tey tsun hang was appointed as a district judge in 2002 despite his publications on the criticism on the legal system of singapore in 2000.
National university of singapore nus associate professor from the law faculty tey tsun hang has been charged in court over the sexforgrades case this morning. Jul 29, 2012 the attorneygenerals chambers agc has denied any link between the politically charged academic publications of nus law facultys associate professor tey tsun hang and the prosecution against him for corruption for allegedly sleeping with law student darinne ko in return for improving her grades. Jul 27, 2012 national university of singapore associate professor of law tey tsun hang was charged with corruption for allegedly trading better grades for sex with a female student. No link between prof teys charges and his academic writings critical of singapores legal systemhposted by temasektimes on july 28, 2012 the attorneygeneral chambers has strenuously denied any links between the corruption charges slapped on nus law professor tey tsun hang pic left. Exlaw prof in malaysia as hearing proceeds, singapore. A young lawyer testifying against her former law professor in a. Former national university of singapore law professor tey tsun hang inset was found guilty by a district court of six charges of corruption over his relationship with his thenstudent in 2010. An academic who writes a book critical of the relationship between the singapore government and the legal profession.
Feb 28, 2014 the tj found that the appellant had not been a truthful witness. Jayakumar was the deputy prime minister on 2 january 1994 till 12 august 2004 when former deputy prime minister lee hsien loong stepped down from position. Tsun hang tey mr faculty of law, national university of. The wing tsun kuen by grandmaster leung ting is without a doubt the bible of wing tsun and set the standard for martial arts books since its publication in 1978. Singapore court overturns professors conviction in sex. Koh professor of law at the national university of singapore, the tunku abdul rahman professor of law at the university of malaya, and the former head of the school of law at the university of tasmania. The 41 year old faces six corruption charges for allegedly showing favour to his student, darinne ko wen hui pic below, between may 2010 and july 2010. Tommy koh thong bee dunu, dubc, pjg, bbm is a singaporean international lawyer, professor and diplomat. Law professor tey tsun hang, arriving in court on day 3 of his sexforgrades trial on 14 jan 20. Singapore law professor in sexforgrades corruption case.
Associate professor, faculty of law, national university of singapore. But these legal checks constitute more than just pretense, and some judges have invoked them in making decisions that demonstrate a willingness to sometimes defy rulingparty opinion. Aug 07, 20 anticorruption developments in singapore ten things to know. The defendant had what he describes as consensual sex with a student. I have no confidence in the singapore judiciary submitted by farhan on fri, 28022014 5. Nus law professor in cpib probe over exchanging grades for sex. The attorneygenerals chambers agc has denied any link between the politically charged academic publications of nus law facultys associate professor tey tsun hang and the prosecution against him for corruption for allegedly sleeping with law student darinne ko in return for improving her grades. This book is an uptodate and detailed guide on the law of equity and trusts. Ravi, wants the court to quash the decision claiming his right to a fair hearing was breached and this was a breach of natural justice. Complex topics are explained clearly and succinctly, featuring indepth discussions on relevant case law. Centre for commer cial law studies, faculty of law, national university of singapore, 2010. Equity, through the mechanism of the trust, may generally be thought to encompass a dualistic approach capable of resolving noncommercial shared property disputes through the use of either the resulting trust or the common intention constructive trust as alternative vehicles of remedy. Former law professor tey tsun hang has failed in his bid to launch court proceedings to challenge his sacking from the national university of singapore. Darinne ko wen hui, 23, said that on 24 july 2010, when she was a student at national university of singapore nus, she and associate law professor tey tsun hang, 41, had sex for the first time.
Tey tsun hang arrives at the subcourts for the first day of his trial in a sexforgrades case. Darinne ko wen hui and tey tsun hang singapore short stories. Tey tsun hang, national university of singapore law professor accused of receiving sex, gifts in exchange for raising students grades by alyssa creamer a national university of singapore associate professor faces corruption charges after he allegedly gave a former student high marks in. News singapore, 27 jul 2012 the young female that is in the centre of a sexforgrades scandal involving national university of singapore law professor tey tsun hang has been identified as 23yearold darinne ko wen hui.
Nus associate law professor tey tsun hang arrives at court 27 july 2012 to face corruption charges. The tj characterised the appellants relationship with ms ko as love with an ulterior motive. Yahoo newsroom law professor tey tsun hang arrives at the subordinate courts on tuesday, 9 april for the verdict of his trialwithinatrial, on the admissibility of six statements he made to officers in more the cpib. Nus professor tey tsun hang, 42, now faces jail terms and fines over his relationship with. In his first response to yahoo singapore via email right after his acquittal from six corruption charges, he also spoke strongly against singapores judiciary and prosecutorial regime, saying he had no confidence in them. View tsun hang teys profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. When chief district judge tan siong thye passed sentence on national university of singapore nus law professor tey tsun hang in june 20, it was reported that his supporters about 10 former students, former colleagues and friends who had been religiously showing up in court cried and hugged him after the horny professor was found guilty of corruption. Sexforgrades case takes a surprising turn, singapore. Agence france presse a law professor was sentenced to five months in jail in singapore for obtaining sexual. Former law professor tey tsun hang, ex scdf chief peter lim.
Law professor tey tsun hang suffered a panic attack in court on day 9 of the sexforgrades corruption trial. Aug 25, 2012 in the recent sexforgrades scandal, a former nus law student, darine ko, allegedly had sex with associate professor tey tsun hang in return for more favourable assessment of her academic performance. Tey, 42, was convicted of six counts of corruption in late may in a sexforgrades case. National university of singapore associate law professor currently being investigated in a sexforgrades scandal has been identified as former district judge tey tsun hang. Muthucumaraswamy sornarajah wikimili, the free encyclopedia.
The appellant had taken advantage of ms ko in a corrupt manner see 469 of the tjs grounds of decision found at pp v tey tsun hang 20 sgdc 165, which i will refer to as the gd. May 28, 20 singapore professor convicted in sexforgrades case. Prosecutor v tey tsun hang singapore doesnt go for sex. Nus exlaw professor went to jail for 5 months for nothing. This comes after both the prosecution and defence presented their closing. Jul 27, 2012 a news aggregator on singapore from alternative sources. Jun 10, 20 the number of chinese students taking the gaokao, the famously stressful exam that determines admission for almost all the countrys universities, has fallen slightly for the fifth straight year. Hes seeking his old job, latest others news the new paper. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover tsun hangs connections and jobs at similar companies. Tey tsun hang jailed in singapore business insider. Exlaw prof tey tsun hang cleared of corruption by high. In his first response to yahoo singapore via email right after his acquittal from six corruption charges, he also spoke strongly against singapores judiciary and.
Jul 27, 2012 in the latest news, darinne ko wen hui is said to be the lady who had sex with her professor tey tsun hang in the latest case of sex for grade incident which shocked singapore. Professor tey attempts to strike a modus vivendi between the. Sexforgrades professor tey tsun hang seeking court order. He was also singapores former permanent representative to the united nations. Number of chinese taking national exam falls again the new. Tey tsun hang cannot ask for compensation and the prosecution cannot pursue the case much further. Prof tey tsun hang and nus law student darinne ko wen hui.
Foreign talent professor charged with obtaining sexual favors from nus law student darinne ko wen hui prof tey tsun hang msian and darinne ko wen hui lately, we are seeing and hearing scandals linked to malaysia boleh counterparts in nus, singapore. Professor charged with trading better grades for sex faces. Tommy koh thong bee dunu first class, dubc, pjg, bbm born 12 november 1937 is a singaporean international lawyer, professor and diplomat. Singapore news today former nus law prof tey tsun hang.
A member of the governing peoples action party pap, he was the senior minister of state in the ministry of law and the ministry of home affairs, and a member of parliament representing the. Former nus law professor tey tsun hang wrongly sacked and. National university of singapore associate law professor tey tsun hang was charged friday morning with six counts of corruption in a sexforgrades scandal. Former law professor tey tsun hang leaving selarang park. In the series of the latest sex for grades trial that have been happening, the latest updates made me just go lol. A young lawyer testifying against her former law professor in a sexforgrades case said in court thursday that she lost her virginity to him. Even though the high court eventually acquitted him of corruption, he was called a man without honor by the justice woo bih li. Tey tsun hang, a graduate of kings college london llb and st huges college oxford bcl, was an assistant professor at the faculty of law of the national university of singapore, before joining the legal service, as a justices law clerk.
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