Kuah Boon Theng
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Kuah Boon Theng is a Singaporean medical lawyer who has been a senior counsel of Singapore since 2018 and a Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) since 2026.
Kuah studied in National University of Singapore, and obtained a master's degree in medical ethics and law from King's College University of London in 1993.[1]
Career
Kuah started in Khattar Wong & Partners as a trainee in 1990 when recently corporatised public hospitals were looking for lawyers.[2] She was admitted to the bar in March 1991, and specialised in healthcare law.[1] In 1998, she was made partner in the firm but left the firm due to her colleagues requesting for similar flexible working arrangement she was given to raise her children.[2]
On 1 April 2003, Kuah and her former colleague Simon Yuen formed the Legal Clinic LLC, a law corporation after the previous law partnership where they were at, Tan & Lim, was dissolved.[3] Beyond resolving medical-legal disputes, Legal Clinic also analyses related complaints and suggest changes to workflows and processes to prevent a replay of similar issues.[2]
In November 2015, after an election, Kuah was appointed as a vice president for Law Society of Singapore.[4]
On 8 January 2018, Kuah was appointed as a senior counsel of Singapore.[1]
In March 2019, Kuah was appointed as a co-chair to a 12-member workgroup to review the taking of informed consent by doctors and the disciplinary processes of the Singapore Medical Council (SMC).[5] Prior to the formation of the workgroup, there were a series of legal cases involving informed consent of patients during their medical care with the resultant disciplinary actions that were contrary to common practices in administering medication.[6] The workgroup made 23 recommendations to reform the disciplinary processes and three recommendations on taking informed consents by doctors. Some recommendations related to disciplinary processes were adopted by the SMC,[7] and the ones related to the legal test on informed consent were also incorporated into the Civil Law Act as section 37 in 2020.[8]
In 2026, Kuah was selected to be a Nominated Member of Parliament of Singapore.[9]
