34 Facts About Lim Tean

Lim Tean is the founder of the political party Peoples Voice and was appointed as Peoples Voice secretary-general.

Lim Tean previously was appointed as secretary-general of the National Solidarity Party from 30 August 2015 to 18 May 2017.

Lim Tean's mother, Aw Eng Lian, was a Chinese-language teacher at Zhonghua Girls School for over 40 years.

At the age of seven, Lim Tean enrolled into Montfort Junior School for his primary education but was disrupted after his father accepted a posting by the Singapore Government as First Secretary in Singapore's mission to the Soviet Union, and Lim Tean travelled with his family to live in Moscow.

Consequently, Lim Tean returned to Montfort Junior School as a Primary 4 student.

Lim Tean continued there and went on to attend Montfort Secondary School.

Lim Tean took biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics for his A Level examinations.

In 1985, Lim Tean went to England to study law at the University of Reading.

Lim Tean was conferred a LLB in 1988 and resided in London as a qualified barrister at the Middle Temple.

Lim Tean was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1989.

Lim Tean further studied a Master of Law degree at Gonville and Cauis College at the University of Cambridge.

Lim Tean was admitted to the Singapore Bar in June 1991.

At Drew and Napier, Lim Tean became the pupil of Steven Chong, who became the Singaporean Attorney-General from 2012 to 2014.

In 2007, Lim Tean was promoted to equity partnership in Rajah and Tann.

Concurrently in 2007, Lim Tean took a sabbatical from the legal practice to explore the business world.

Lim Tean founded an Indonesian mining company based out of Sulawesi.

In 2017, Lim Tean returned to Singapore and founded his law firm Carson Law Chambers.

Lim Tean represented anti-government critic and blogger Leong Sze Hian in a defamation case brought by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on 8 December 2018.

The trial ended when Lim Tean argued that there was "no case to submit" before Leong was scheduled to take the stand to be cross-examined.

In March 2021, the High Court ordered for Leong to pay Lee $133,000, which Lim Tean called it 'a wrong and deeply flawed' decision.

Lim Tean first became involved in politics in 2011 when he joined the National Solidarity Party.

Just a week before the 2015 General Elections, NSP approached Lim Tean and invited him to serve as their acting Secretary-General.

In May 2017, Lim Tean resigned from his position, citing disagreements with the party.

On 29 October 2018, Lim Tean announced the founding of a new political party, Peoples Voice, headed by himself.

Peoples Voice contested in the 2020 Singaporean general election for two GRCs and one Single Member Constituency, with Lim Tean contesting Jalan Besar GRC with three other party members.

In September 2013, a Chinese national, Huang Min, and Lim Tean entered into an agreement in which Huang agreed to lend US$150,000 to Lim Tean.

Lim Tean appealed to the High Court but withdrew the appeal on 15 January 2019.

Lim Tean stated that he was not contacted by The Straits Times and that he was "not going to be bankrupted" and the sum owed was "total rubbish".

On 2 October 2020, Lim Tean was arrested after he refused to cooperate with the police by not turning for a compulsory police interview scheduled on 28 September, of which could be rescheduled, and not intending to be interviewed.

Lim Tean was suspected for alleged criminal breach of trust, in which a former client reported him for allegedly misappropriating a sum of money awarded to him as damages by the court.

Lim Tean was suspected of unlawful stalking, in which a former female employee alleged harassment from him while being employed in his law firm.

The arrest was carried out while Lim Tean was preparing with Leong for an upcoming cross-examination of Lee in the defamation lawsuit.

Lim Tean alleged that the investigations were politically motivated, which the police refuted, stating that it had a duty to investigate the allegations.

Lim Tean sought for a judicial review to discontinue investigations on him by the authorities, however it was dismissed by a judge on 8 December 2020, stating that the application "utterly devoid of any legal merit whatsoever".