Looi Kwok Peng
Course Manager

Kwok Peng joined Temasek Polytechnic in 1997 after a career of nearly 12 years in private practice. During that time, he handled a range of civil litigation matters with a concentration on family and matrimonial cases.

He is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, a certified Technical Co-Assessor under the Law Society’s Prime Law practice management quality mark and is a volunteer mediator with several organizations.

He has a special interest in IT for the Legal Profession and has a weakness for cars, computers and cool gadgets.

Tel:  67806256
Email:  kwokpeng@tp.edu.sg

Lim Ai Ming, Cynthia
Section Head

Cynthia is an advocate and solicitor who was in private practice for 7 years. She was a junior partner overseeing conveyancing work in a medium-sized law firm before joining Temasek Polytechnic in 1997. She co-authored a book entitled 'Conveyancing Law & Procedure' which is being used as a textbook for paralegal training in the polytechnic.

Besides teaching law courses, Cynthia is currently also involved in professional development as a Learning Academy Associate of TP. She did her Master in Education in Melbourne where she undertook research on the topic of ‘Teaching for Transfer in a Thinking Curriculum' in the area of legal education for her thesis.

Tel: 67805897
Email: aiming@tp.edu.sg

Mathavan Devadas
Section Head

An advocate and solicitor in private practice for 3 years, he was also a deputy public prosecutor with the Attorney-Generals Chambers for 11 years before joining Temasek Polytechnic in 2000.

He argued the case of Abdul Naser bin Amer Hamsah in which the Court of Appeal of Singapore defined “life imprisonment” to be natural life and which in turn led to a reform in the system of administering such sentences in Singapore.

Tel: 67805892
Email: mathavan@tp.edu.sg

Sylvia Lim Swee Lian
Manager, PDC

After completing her undergraduate studies at NUS and her postgraduate studies in London, Sylvia qualified as a lawyer in 1991.
Having a keen interest in criminal justice and social issues, she joined the Police Force as an Inspector for 3 years and expended energies doing investigation work at Central Police Division and staff work for Director, Criminal Investigation Department.

She returned to practice law in 1994 and was busy doing litigation work in both civil and criminal matters. Civil matters were “cleaner” and usually a matter of commercial sense. However, her heart was always more in the criminal cases. These brought to her some of the greatest satisfactions upon obtaining acquittals, in view of the odds of the system; nevertheless it also brought some of her life’s dark moments and still unresolved dilemmas such as the continued use of the death penalty.

Since Oct 1998 she has been in TP. Besides teaching on the full-time courses, she is also very involved in the teaching and administration of the part-time programmes run by Business School, as seen in her appointment as Manager, Continuing Education & Training, Temasek Business School.

Tel: 67805894
Email: sweelian@tp.edu.sg

Andrew Chia
Senior Lecturer

Senior Lecturer at Temasek Polytechnic, Andrew spent 12 years in industry practicing law before joining the Polytechnic. During the time in practice, Andrew handled a wide range of legal work with the main focus on civil litigation.

Andrew graduated with an LLB from University of Singapore in 1978 and subsequently obtained his MSc (Criminal Justice) from the University of Leicester in 2003. His area of interest includes litigation, arbitration and criminology.

Tel: 67805839
Email: lyehock@tp.edu.sg

Annie Gomez
Lecturer

An Advocate and Solicitor in private practice for 1.5 years dealing mainly with commercial law matters. Joined the Registry of Trade Marks and Patents (now IPOS) and then moved on to the Official Assignee and Public Trustee’s Office.

Joined Temasek Polytechnic as a Lecturer after completing a Masters Degree with King’s College, University of London. Currently specialises in teaching Law of Contract and Intellectual Property Law.

Tel: 67805837
Email: samuel@tp.edu.sg

Lim Poh Bee
Lecturer

An advocate and solicitor of Singapore since 1977, she has been teaching young adults since 1985.

Her areas of professional interest are in teaching thinking, the use of Problem-Based Learning to teach, and the teaching of Language and Communication for Business and Legal Purposes. She has been a mentor lecturer at Temasek Polytechnic since 2002.

Tel: 67805840
Email: pohbee@tp.edu.sg

Wendy Yu
Lecturer

An advocate and solicitor in private practice (litigation) for a couple of years before joining Temasek Polytechnic in October 2004.

Her favourite areas of law includes family law, law of insolvency and intellectual property. She is also passionate about working with young people and missionary work.

Tel: 67806288
Email: wendyyu@tp.edu.sg

Pok Cheng Sim
Lecturer

Cheng Sim has diverse experience in a spectrum of corporate and commercial work. He began his career as a State Counsel/ Deputy Public Prosecutor in the Attorney-General’s Chambers.  Thereafter, he practised corporate law at major law firms as a partner (specialising in China-related matters), and had been in-house legal counsel in government-linked companies, prior to joining TP in 2004.

Cheng Sim obtained the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree from the NUS and the Master of Laws degree from the University of Bristol (England); he also holds a Graduate Diploma in Business & Finance and an accounting certificate.

He currently teaches company law, corporate governance, insolvency law, IT law, IP law on diploma and professional development courses.

Tel: 67806286
Email: pokcs@tp.edu.sg

Caris Tay
Lecturer

Caris was a corporate lawyer in private practice before joining TP in 2007. She holds two degrees from the NUS – a LLB (Hons) and a BA (majoring in Sociology). She specialises in the teaching of company law, but also takes a personal interest in public and international law.

In her free time, she likes to read and do water sports.

Tel:  67806580
Email:  caristay@tp.edu.sg

Joyce Low
Lecturer

Joyce was in practice for 3 years before moving on to pursue a LLM in International Law. Thereafter she was with the Economic Development Board of Spore, dealing mainly with negotiations for free trade agreements and investment agreements. Her areas of interests are in Public International Law, Human Rights and Environmental Law, Family Law, anthropology and archaeology.

When not busy with work and taking care of her kids, she enjoys reading, writing, craftwork, sketching, water-colouring and crocheting. Her motto in life is “I Can!”

Tel:  67805896
Email:  joycelwc@tp.edu.sg

Vinod Sabnani
Lecturer

Vinod graduated from the NUS. He practised commercial litigation at Drew & Napier LLC for about 3 years until 2003, when he was appointed State Counsel in the Attorney-General’s Chambers. His love for teaching drew him to teach Media Law at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, where he received the Academic Award for Teaching in 2007.

Vinod joined TP in 2008, and he looks forward to teaching and learning from young people.

Vinod is interested in new developments in copyright law, and is currently involved in the Singapore launch of the Creative Commons project – an international movement to enhance the sharing of creative works legally.

Tel:  67806776
Email:  sabnani@tp.edu.sg

Nicole Loh Wern Sze
Lecturer

Nicole graduated from National University of Singapore in 2000. She was in private practice for more than 7 years before joining Temasek Polytechnic. Her area of specialization was almost exclusively Matrimonial Law throughout her years of practice. Therefore her skills are not only legal in nature but also counseling and mediatory as all her clients were individuals carrying a lot of emotional hurt and/or having grave concerns of the future of their family.

For leisure, Nicole spends time with her husband and dog. She also plays online games such as World of Warcraft and Diablo.

Tel: 67806255
Email: nicloh@tp.edu.sg

Regina Charles
Lecturer

Regina began her career in the Attorney General’s Chambers in 2000. Thereafter, she moved on to the Corporate Sector doing legal work for 2 Japanese MNCs. She dealt mainly with Corporate, Commercial and Company Secretarial matters.

Formally an adjunct teaching Criminal Procedure and Criminal Law, she finally joined TP in 2008 to fulfill her long time desire to work with young people.

Regina enjoys play time with her baby and of course, travelling.

Tel: 67806597
Email: reginapc@tp.edu.sg