Catherine Tay

Catherine Tay Swee Kianis an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. A/Prof Tay is also a barrister-at-law (of Lincoln’s Inn, United Kingdom). She is an Associate Professorial Fellowlecturing law at the National University of Singapore(NUS), Department of Strategy andPolicy, NUS Business School. A/Prof Tay is also anAssociate Director of the law firm of Bernard & Rada Law Corp.A/Prof Tay studied law at Queen Mary College, University of London and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws with Honours in 1977 and with a Master of Laws in 1979, in which she specialised in Company, Shipping, Insurance and Marine Insurance Laws.

She was called to the English Bar by Lincoln’s Inn in 1978. She did her pupillage under the Honourable Lady Mary Hogg in London and returned to Singapore in the law firm of Rodyk & Davidson. A/Prof Taywon the Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par Memorial Prize for the overall best student in 1980 during her postgraduate practical law course in Singapore. She was called to the Singapore Bar in 1980.A/Prof Tay is a member of the National Healthcare Group Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Domain Specific Review Board tasked to review the scientific and ethical aspects of research protocols since 2002.

She is also a member of the Centralised Institutional Review Board (IRB), Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd tasked to review clinical protocols for human subject experimentation. She was a member of SingHealth Polyclinics IRB since 2003. A/Prof Tay was also a member of the Research & Ethics Committee of Alexandra Hospital. She was also the medical-legal adviser of the Institute of Mental Health / Woodbridge Hospital. A/Prof Tay was a member of the panel for lay persons for the National Transplant Ethics Committee, Ministry of Health.

A/Prof isthe Honourable Legal Advisor for Singapore Optometric Association, as well as for the Singapore Institute of Engineering Technologists. She is an adjunct lecturer at Institute of System Science, NUSin IT outsourcing contracts. She lectures also at the NUS Extension in professional and management law courses.A/Prof Taycurrently supervises medicalstudents in electiveson “Medical legal & ethical issues and the Setting up of clinical practice” for 3rdand 4thyear medical students at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.She lectures the Medical law & Ethics module course for University of Manchester at Singapore Polytechnic.A/Prof Tay also lectures at the Alice School of Nursing in NUS. She also lectures nursing students in nursing law and ethics at the Nanyang Polytechnic. Shehas lecturedmedical law and biomedical ethics in the NUS Faculty of Dentistryfor more than 10 years. A/Prof Tay was the external examiner onmedical law ethics atthe Hong Kong University, Law Faculty. She is an examiner on law subjects for a number of professional bodies and universities in Singapore and overseas.