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. == Selected bibliography ==