Vickie Tan
Assocciate Director
Vickie read law at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom and graduated with a LL.B (Honours). She was subsequently called to the Singapore Bar in 2013.
She completed her pupilage and practiced with a prominent senior criminal litigation lawyer in Singapore since her call to the Bar, and gained a wealth of general litigation experience, in particular the fields of Civil Litigation and Criminal Defence work.
Vickie’s primary area of practice is litigation and dispute resolution, she has acted in and assisted in litigation at all levels of Singapore’s courts.
Vickie has been involved in handling a wide range of contentious matters including company and employment disputes, contractual disputes, defamation, probate and divorce proceedings as well as civil and criminal defence litigation.
Practice areas
• Criminal Law
• Employment
• Landlord & Tenant Disputes
• Litigation, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution
• Wills, Trust & Probate
• Applications under the Mental Capacity Act
Experience
• Acted for Wirecard Singapore Pte Ltd and Wirecard Asia Holding Pte Ltd when their local offices were raided by the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) in 2019; filed Criminal Motions to the High Court for an order, among other things, that the CAD limited or specified the scope of discovery / documents to be seized
• Acted for an accused who was convicted and sentenced to death for drug trafficking offences assigned under LASCO in preparing the Petition for Clemency
• Acted for various clients charged with drug trafficking under the Misuse of Drugs Act (Cap. 185), including cases assigned under the Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offence (LASCO)
• Acted for various clients charged with various statutory offences such as offences under the Penal Code (Cap. 224), Women’s Charter (Cap. 353), Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other
Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act (Cap. 65A), etc.
• Acted for a client who was classified as an “NS defaulter” for failing to register for National Service and remaining overseas without a valid exit permit
• Acted for an NTU professor who was charged with and pleaded guilty to shoplifting
• Acted for an ex-navy engineer who was charged for having sex with a minor in an online vice ring case
• Assisted with a Disposal Inquiry involving the assets of Chia Teck Leng, the former Finance Manager of Asia Pacific Breweries who cheated four banks of more than $117 million
Reported Cases
• Public Prosecutor v Zin Mar Nwe [2023] SGHC 146 – foreign domestic worker was charged with the murder of her employer’s mother-in-law
• PT Karya Indo Batam v Wang Zhenwen and others (Wang Zhenwen and others, third parties) [2021] 5 SLR 1381
• Lee Yi Ling Karan v Jeremy Huang [2021] SGDC 214
• Public Prosecutor v Wee Teong Boo [2019] SGHC 198
• Singapore Medical Council Interim Orders Committee Inquiry for Dr Wee Teong Boo, 9 May 2017
• Public Prosecutor v Tan Kok Leong and another appeal [2017] SGHC 188
• Public Prosecutor v Pannir Selvam Pranthaman [2017] SGHC 144
• Public Prosecutor v Tan Kok Leong [2016] SGDC 327
• Public Prosecutor v Koh Nai Hock [2016] SGDC 48
• Public Prosecutor v Chew Tiong Wei [2016] SGDC 59
• Public Prosecutor v Dewadas Dinesh Kumar [2015] SGDC 301
• Public Prosecutor v Sim Wei Liang Benjamin [2015] SGHC 240
• Public Prosecutor v Lim Bee Hoon and another [2015] SGHC 45
Appointments and membership
• Member, Singapore Academy of Law
• Member, Law Society of Singapore
• Member, Criminal Legal Aid Scheme
• Member, Supreme Court LASCO Panel