Vickie Tan

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 lawyer in Singapore and subsequently a boutique litigation firm since her call to the Bar, and gained a wealth of general litigation experience, in particular the fields of Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defence work. 

In Vickie’s practice, she has represented individuals and corporations, both local and foreign. and at all levels of Singapore’s courts as well as arbitration under the SIAC rules.  

Vickie has been involved in handling a wide range of contentious and complex matters, including company and employment disputes, contractual disputes, defamation, probate and divorce proceedings as well as criminal defence litigation.

Reported Cases:

• Public Prosecutor v Zin Mar Nwe [2023] SGHC 146

• PT Karya Indo Batam v Wang Zhenwen, Rich Capital Holdings Limited and 3 Ors [2021] SGHC 177

• 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 Sim Wei Liang Benjamin [2015] SGHC 240

• Assisted in the representation of an NTU professor who was charged with shoplifting offences He was sentenced to an 18 months’ mandatory treatment disorder. 

• Assisted in the Disposal Inquiry involving Chia Teck Leng, the financial manager of Asia Pacific Breweries who was involved in one of Singapore’s largest commercial fraud cases.