Henry Chung

Henry Chung was called to the bar in 2022 following successful completion of his pupillage with Mr. John Reading SC, Mr. Giles Surman, Mr. Lawrence Cheung, Dr. David Fong and Mr. Joe Chan. 

Henry is building a broad civil and matrimonial practice with an emphasis upon commercial and company litigation, probate and property law, defamation and matrimonial finance. On the criminal side, Henry has experience in both white-collar and organised crime.

Examples of Henry’s recent work include: - 

• Advising an international data analytics company regarding cross-jurisdictional gambling and the extraterritorial elements of the Gambling Ordinance, Cap. 148 (led by Mr. John Reading SC) 
• Advising on questions of privilege and disclosure involving allegations of fraud (led by Mr. Benson Tsoi)
• Advising a local construction and engineering company on questions involving the law of easement, abatement and the doctrine of frustration (as sole counsel) 
• Various appearances in the District Court and the High Court (as sole advocate and as led-junior) 

Prior to joining the Bar, Henry obtained his MA Law degree at University of Law and PCLL at City University of Hong Kong (Dean’s List) after completing his BScs (Hons) Biology with Deans Award for Academic Excellence Scholarship at University of Bath. 

Christina K. K. Li

Christina joined Chambers in 2022 after completing her pupillage with Ms Annie Lai, Mr Andrew Raffell, Mr Isaac Chan and Mr Joseph Lee. She had previously served as marshal to HH Judge MK Liu.

Christina is developing a broad criminal and civil practice. She has experience in criminal cases involving white-collar crimes, drug-related offences, dishonesty-related offences, offences against the person and sexual offences. She has assisted in civil matters related to matrimonial, land, contract and commercial disputes.

Christina is fluent in English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Hokkien. She can draft documents in English and Chinese. She accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ work.

Jonathan Chan Yik Hong

Jonathan is a Charles Ching Scholar.

Jonathan joined Chambers in 2022 after completing his pupillage with Mr Kumar Ramanathan SC, Mr Giles Surman, Mr Hew Yang-Wahn, Mr Andrew Raffell and Mr Robin Egerton. He had previously served as marshal to the Hon Chu JA (now VP), the Hon Zervos JA and HHJ A Tse Ching (sitting as Family Court Judge).

Jonathan is developing a broad civil and criminal practice with a particular focus on family law. Jonathan has worked on a wide range of matrimonial finance and children matters, including but not limited to GMO applications, relocation applications, CDRs and FDRs (court, private and mediator-assisted), MPS and litigation funding applications, DCRVO applications, application for Hadkinson Order and costs.

In addition to family practice, Jonathan has exposure in chancery and civil matters involving trusts, land, wills and probate, and applications under the Mental Health Ordinance.

Jonathan is also well versed in criminal law with experience in defending offences against the person, sexual offences, immigration offences, white-collar crimes etc.

Academically, Jonathan is recognised by The Global Undergraduate Awards as among global top 10% and as one of the top 5 entrants in Hong Kong for his research project on legal bilingualism in Hong Kong he undertook during his time at HKU. He is also the recipient of the Eric Au Shing Wai Prize for ranking first in class in Use of Chinese in Law.

Jonathan is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin and is capable of preparing submissions, advice and documents in both Chinese and English. He accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ work.

Joseph C.C. Yeung

Prior to joining the Bar, Joseph was a Detective Superintendent with the Hong Kong Police Force and has solid experience in all aspects of criminal procedures.

During his over 30 years tenure at the Force, he was responsible for directing investigation and prosecution of cases involving, inter alia, organized crimes, commercial fraud, white collar crimes, money laundering, corruption, serious drugs offences, immigration offences, violent crimes, triads, fatal traffic and industrial incidents and other crimes. He was also experienced in fire investigations and death inquests. He has served as Adjudicating Officer in Disciplinary Proceedings.

On the civil side, Joseph has experience in cases involving areas such as general commercial, insolvency and winding up, land, torts and construction.

Joseph welcomes all instructions and is developing a broad practice of civil and criminal matters.

Chester Fung

Chester joined Chambers in 2022 after completing his pupillage with Mr. Ambrose Ho SC, Mr. Norman Nip SC, Mr. Tony Li SC, and Mr. Alan Ng. Prior to commencement of pupillage, Chester completed the Master of Laws with a focus on company and insolvency law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chester is developing a broad civil and criminal practice. He accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ work with focuses on trusts, probate, company disputes, insolvency, land and matrimonial matters. He has been instructed by listed company and high net-worth private clients to advise and act on a range of disputes and various substantive applications including urgent injunctions and resisting security for costs application.

On the criminal side, Chester has experiences ranging from white-collar crime to departmental summonses as well as violent crime, sexual offences, traffic offences, regulatory offences and drugs offences both in trials and appeals. Chester has conducted criminal trial as sole advocate and acted in Magistracy Appeal before the Court of First Instance.

He is also a part-time lecturer in law at the University of Hong Kong School of Professional and Continuing Education.  

Chester is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin, and can draft legal documents in Chinese.

Stephanie Tai

Stephanie joined Pacific Chambers in 2022. She completed her pupillage with Mr. John Reading S.C., Mr. Andrew Raffell, Mr. Albert Luk, and Mr. Tim Wong.

Stephanie is developing a broad practice in both civil and criminal law. She has experience in jury trials (as a led junior) and mentions in criminal matters, and advisory work for civil matters. She accepts instructions for both court and advisory work.

Tony Lo

Tony joined Chambers in 2021 after completing his pupillage with Mr Colin Wright, Mr Clement Lau, Mr Jeffrey Li and Mr Azan Marwah. 

Tony is developing a predominantly civil practice with interest in criminal law. He accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ work.

Warren Suen    孫瑋琳大律師

Warren is a dual-qualified barrister and registered architect. His practice covers most areas of civil work and criminal proceedings, specialising in construction law, commercial disputes, land and building matters and international arbitration.

After graduating from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) focusing on arbitration, conflict of laws, and international treaties, Warren served pupillage with Ms Amanda Li, Mr Calvin Cheuk, Mr Simon Wong, Mr Benny Lo, Mr Jeffrey Tam and Mr Solomon Lam. During his pupillage, he was awarded the Society of Construction Law Hong Kong Scholarship.

As either the sole advocate or a led junior, Warren has appeared in various levels of courts and tribunals. He has advised on a wide range of legal matters, including construction claims, civil and commercial disputes, land and building management matters, shareholder disputes, professional negligence, personal injuries, criminal matters (including industrial summons), international arbitration, disciplinary proceedings, etc. Additionally, Warren welcomes instructions in relation to judicial review and competition law.

Warren’s broad knowledge and experience in the construction sector enable him to navigate complex technical subject matters, regional practices, and handling of expert witnesses. Prior to joining the Bar, Warren completed a Master of Architecture at the University of Manchester on a scholarship. He subsequently became a Registered Architect in Hong Kong and is also a Chartered Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Moreover, he worked in various international architecture firms, where he played integral roles in designing and administering large-scale building projects in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and the Middle East.

Currently, Warren holds various public service roles, including appointments at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, the Development Bureau and the Occupational Safety & Health Council. While serving in the Construction Industry Council, Warren sat on the panel of a number of regulatory action hearings regarding contractor misconducts.

Furthermore, Warren has been an advocate of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) since studying at the LSE, during which he represented the school in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot and received the Pieter Sanders Award. Early in his legal practice, Warren served as a director of the Joint Mediation Helpline Office (JMHO). At present, he is a representative to the Working Group on Adjudication under the Construction Industry Security of Payment Ordinance (SOPL) and also a member of the Joint Dispute Resolution Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects and the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, responsible for appointing mediators and arbitrators.

Warren is fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, with work proficiency in Taishanese.

PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS

• Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
  • Member of the Appointment Advisory Board (2023-2026)
• Construction Industry Council
  • Committee on Registered Specialist Trade Contractors Scheme (2022-2024)
  • Task Group on the Automatic Suspension of Registration on Fatal Accidents Mechanism (2022)
• Development Bureau
  • Appeal Board Panel under the Construction Workers Registration Ordinance (2023-2025)
• Occupational Safety & Health Council
  • Construction Industry Safety & Health Committee (2023-2027)
• Architects Registration Board
  • Legal Affairs Committee (2022-2024)
• Hong Kong Institute of Architects and Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors
  • Joint Dispute Resolution Committee (2021-2024)
• Hong Kong Institute of Architects
  • Chairman of the Contract & Dispute Resolution Committee (2022)
  • Chairman of the Task Force on Adjudicator Nominating Body (Security of Payment) (2022-2023)
  • Lecturer and Examiner (Paper 2: Building Contracts, Professional Practice, Professional Conduct, Conditions of Agreement) (2022-2023)
  • Board of Practices (2021-2023)
  • Task Force on Mediation and Legal Services (2020)
  • Young Members Committee (2020)

CHARITY / NGO

• Director of Joint Mediation Helpline Office (2021-2022)

SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES

• Society of Construction Law Hong Kong Scholarship (2020)
• Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot – Pieter Sanders Award (2020)
• Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot – Honourable Mention for Respondent Memorandum (2020)
• Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition – Honorable Mention (Oralist) in Hong Kong Round (2019)
• Outstanding Performance in Mooting Competitions Award (2018)
• Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition - Second Best Memorials in Asia-Pacific Regional Final (2018)
• Vice-Chancellor Merit Award Scholarship (2012)

SELECTED CASES

• Chan Yee Tak Rachel & Anor v DSM Interior Design Limited [2023] HKCFI 311 – Appeared as sole advocate on behalf of the successful land owners in their HK$9M+ claim against a building contractor
• Ko Pui Yee & Ors v Jones Lang Lasalle Management Services Ltd [2023] 2 HKLRD 1382 – Led by Mr Simon Wong appearing on behalf of the successful appellant in a Small Claims Tribunal Appeal application concerning a car park flooded during typhoon signal no. 10
• 孫名林 對 劉開展 [2023] HKCFI 2739 – Appeared as sole advocate on behalf of the defendant in a dispute concerning an electrical engineering product
• WKS 5679-5680/2022 – Appeared as sole advocate on behalf of the successful subcontractor in securing acquittal of industrial summons in respect of Cap. 59 Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance offences
• ESS 4517-4519/2023 – Appeared as sole advocate on behalf of the successful main contractor in securing acquittal of offences under Cap. 59I Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations
• Xiao Yueqiong v The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd & Anor [2023] HKDC 1535 – Acted for a fraud victim in obtaining Norwich Pharmacal relief against 2 banks
• Sim Chang Min v CMB Wing Lung Bank Ltd & Ors [2023] HKDC 1536 – Acted for a victim of telephone fraud in obtaining Norwich Pharmacal relief against 3 banks

Toni Y.T. Chan

Toni joined Chambers in 2021 after serving pupillage with Mr. Andrew Raffell, Mr. Peter TK Wong, Mr. Marco KW Li, Mr. Vod KS Chan and Mr. Alex YH Lai. She also previously served as a judge marshal with his Honour Judge Yiu.

Toni completed her Master of Law degree at the University of Cambridge. Before that, she obtained her JD and PCLL at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. During her studies at the CUHK, she represented the CUHK in the Willem C. Vis and Willem C. Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot. She then assisted the CUHK Vis team as a student coach. Prior to her legal studies, Toni pursued her BA at the University of Hong Kong, majoring in Chinese Studies and Politics and Public Administration.

Toni is developing a broad civil and criminal practice and accepts instructions in all areas of chambers’ work, with particular interest in criminal law and personal injuries matters. She accepts instructions for both court and advisory work.

Toni is proficient in Cantonese, English and Putonghua.

Teresa L.M. Leung

Teresa was admitted to the Bar in 2018. She leads a general practice. She has appeared either as a sole advocate or a led junior counsel in the Court of Final Appeal, Court of Appeal, High Court, District Court and the Magistrates’ Courts.

Teresa’s criminal practice ranges from legal visits, plea bargains, bail applications and mitigations to trials and appeals. She has represented clients in cases of, inter alia, criminal damage, drug offences, road traffic offences, offences of dishonesty (including conspiracy to defraud), sexual offences and manslaughter.

For civil matters, Teresa’s breadth of experience covers land, contract, company, coroner’s court hearings, insolvency, bankruptcy, tort, labour, trust and probate. She has worked on interlocutory applications involving, inter alia, summary judgment, default judgment, striking-out, injunctions and jurisdictional disputes. She regularly renders advice on personal injury cases and has also been instructed to provide expert opinion on regulatory compliance of companies in Hong Kong.

Teresa is on the Legal Aid Panel and regularly provides pro bono advice under the Free Legal Advice Scheme of the Duty Lawyer Service.

Teresa has been an annual contributing editor of Hong Kong Civil Procedure (Hong Kong White Book) since the 2022 edition and was the online Employment Practical Guidance platform of LexisNexis in 2021.

Teresa is fluent in English, Cantonese and Putonghua.

Selected Cases

National Security Law: Conspiracy to Commit Subversion

HKSAR v NG Gordon Ching-hang & Ors, HCCC 69/2022

Manslaughter; Mentally Handicapped Defendant

HKSAR v Shek Ka Chun [2019] HKCFI 1323; and [2019] HKCFI 1993

Land: Title / Land Registration Ordinance (Cap. 128)

Winland Finance Limited v Gain Hero Finance Limited [2021] HKCA 576; and [2022] HKCFA 3

Fraudulent Misrepresentation

Simply Power Limited & Ors v Billy Chua & Ors [2023] HKCFI 944

Adverse Possession

Yeung Wai Tong v Srikornvit Pranee & Ors [2022] HKCFI 606

Trust: Company Shares; Conflict of Laws

Wang Rongan v Silver International Investment Limited & Ors [2022] HKCFI 2586

Trust: Beneficial Ownership of Property

Luk Wing Kwan v The Personal Representative of the Estate of Poon Siu Mei, deceased & Anor [2021] HKDC 1399

Defamation

Wong Shing v Cheung Hing [2021] HKDC 1438

Objection to Application for Video-link Evidence

Wang Rongan v Silver International Investment Limited & Ors [2021] HKCFI 3198

Paul Y.P. Lee

Paul has a practice focussed on construction, commercial and land law. He has appeared as sole counsel in the High Court, District Court, Lands Tribunal and Magistrates’ Court in cases involving construction, commercial, land, company, bankruptcy & winding-up and criminal law. Paul is developing his arbitration practice, and has been instructed as junior counsel for a number of construction arbitration cases. He acted for an involved party in the Commission of Inquiry for the Hung Hom Station Extension under the Shatin to Central Link Project.

Paul is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Prior to joining the bar, he had over ten years' experience in Hong Kong and the UK working as a contract consultant, litigation paralegal and structural and civil engineer. He was previously a Representative at the Free Representation Unit (London), where he advocated successfully for claimants in the Employment Tribunal (England & Wales).

Paul was a Society of Construction Law Hong Kong Scholar in 2017. He is a native speaker of both English and Cantonese and is fluent in Putonghua.

Gilbert H.W. Chong

Before transforming into a barrister-at-law, Mr. Chong has devoted himself for 8 years in multinational top-tier banks, managing portfolio of corporate clients in diversified industries; specializing in trade finance, commercial loan and structured investment; building up in-depth knowledge of different industry norms, regulatory regime and bank internal policy; handling corporate insolvency, money laundering prevention and fraud investigation; and equipping strong understanding of business culture, local practice and respective authorities in China.

Mr. Chong has a mixed practice and has represented clients at different levels of Courts. For civil matters, he focuses on contractual claims, shareholders’ disputes, winding up petitions and insolvency claims. In relation to criminal practice, he has considerable experiences in legal visits to various law enforcement agents and has represented defendants in trials, pleas in mitigation, applications for bail and appeals. He also prosecutes as a Counsel-on-fiat.

Mr. Chong is fluent in English, Cantonese, Mandarin.

Holden N. Slutsky

Holden is qualified as a Barrister in Hong Kong and as an Attorney in New York and the District of Columbia. 

He is experienced in advising and representing clients in a variety of civil areas, including complex company and commercial disputes, interlocutory applications, constitutional law, property, personal injury, banking and finance and probate.

He also regularly receives instructions as a defence counsel for criminal matters, and has represented clients in bail applications, mitigations, trials and appeals. He has also represented numerous clients, including businesses, facing charges prosecuted by the Labour Department, Buildings Department, ICAC, Customs and Excise, and Immigration Department.

Holden often appears as an advocate in the High Court, District Court and Magistracies, and has also appeared before the Air Transport Licensing Authority.

He read law at Cornell University in New York, as well as in Hong Kong at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the City University of Hong Kong.

He is a regular contributor to the World Bank’s annual ‘Doing Business’ report.

Mary B.L. Thomson

Lawrence Y.Y. Ng

Lawrence has accumulated extensive experience in all aspects of criminal law, corporate investigations and market misconduct prosecutions during his practice at the Bar and decades of earlier service with the Hong Kong Police Force.

In attaining his LLM (HKU), he focused on key areas of interest including corporate law, human rights, international law and the PRC criminal code.

He brings an understanding of a full range of criminal offences to the cases he undertakes. He is frequently instructed to represent clients in disciplinary hearings brought by law enforcement agencies.

He also acts for clients in relation to investigation initiated by the Accounting and Financial Reporting Council, Equal Opportunity Commission, Physiotherapists Board and the Pharmacy and Poisons Board.

Lawrence is particularly familiar with large-scale commercial crime and money laundering investigations. And, he regularly advises local listed companies and foreign entities on their internal investigations into corporate misconduct.

He also provides legal opinions on a range of matters including criminal, corporate, listing rules, common interest privilege and professional code of conduct.

Since being called to the Bar, Lawrence has developed expertise in securities and regulatory issues. He often acts for listed companies in relation to regulatory investigations pursued by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (“SFC”) and Hong Kong Stock Exchange (“HKEX”).

On the civil side, he has developed an interest in the area of adverse possession, sexual harassment, employment and town planning law in the course of his practice.

Clients in this field include a statutory body, a publicly listed company, a CPA Firm, a property developer, an investment house, a global health care company and an overseas trading company.

SELECTED CASES

Appeared as Junior Counsel for an appeal together with David Perry QC in Court of Appeal and Court of Final Appeal in relation to HKSAR v Nancy Ann Kissel CACC No. 66 of 2012 and FAMC No. 63 of 2013, also known as the 'milkshake murder'.

Appeared as Junior Counsel for a murder trial: HKSAR v Siu Wai Cheong HCCC No. 417 of 2017.

An application for permanent stay of proceedings resulted in the prosecution withdrawing all the respective disciplinary charges related to the ‘affront’ limb: Hong Kong Police Force v A defaulter Disciplinary Report No. 7 of 2018.

Chan Chun Sang, Jason

Jason joined Pacific Chambers in 2012. He has over 20 years of commercial experience with emphasis including, but not limited to the following fields:

• Corporation Law and practice (HK/BVI/Samoa/Bermuda): Shareholders/directors disputes; Minority shareholder oppression claims; Winding up; Derivative actions; Insolvency; and various applications in relation to corporate affairs (e.g. Reduction of share capital; Specific discovery of corporate documents by director/shareholder; Petition for convening of AGM)
•  Tax matters: Assessment of tax; Lodging objections to assessment; and Tax evasion
•  Commercial crimes: Money laundering; False accounting; and Fraud
•  Land claims: Adverse possession; Recovery of possession; Mortgagee action; Vendor/Purchaser summons; DMC matters; and Small house development disputes
•  Commercial contract claims
•  Trust claims: Breach of trust; Breach of fiduciary duties; and Trustee application (e.g. Beddoe Order)
•  Contract disputes relating to the information technology sector
•  Contentious probate actions
•  Arbitration and mediation support

Justin S.C. Cheung

Justin trained to be a solicitor in the Hong Kong office of an international law firm. Since qualification as a solicitor, Justin has worked in the litigation department of several international firms.

As a litigation solicitor, Justin was responsible for mostly commercial cases conducted at the High Court in Hong Kong as well as the District Court of Hong Kong. He oversaw all aspects of a case from the initial preparation for bringing a claim to the actual trial, communicating with the court, clients, witnesses, experts, barristers and the opposing legal team.

The following are examples of the cases he handled:

• Shareholders/directors and contractual disputes (including employment cases concerning restrictive contractual clauses), often with a PRC element
• Contentious probate proecedings
• Advice on profits tax assessments of an international company and its subsidiaries
• Representing the taxpayer in appeals before both the Court of Appeal and the Court of Final Appeal concerning the judicial review of a decision of the Board of Review
• Defending contractual and negligence claims involving investment products
• Defending contractual and tortious claims brought by a former employee
• Advising investment advisor in investigation by the Securities and Futures Commission and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority

As a barrister, Justin handles both civil and criminal cases.

Civil cases - Appearing in interlocutory applications and trials, mostly concerning commercial disputes; drafting pleadings and written advice on both procedural and legal matters involved in winding-up, employment and matrimonial cases.

Criminal cases - Advising on possible liability and procedural issues such as those under the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571); conducting bail applications, mitigations and trials.

Some examples of cases:

• Successfully defending a claim under the Sale of Goods Ordinance (Cap. 26)
• Representing a defendant at various interlocutory applications ancillary to a Mareva injunction at the Court of First Instance
• Successfully defending a charge of welfare fraud

Micky T.B. Yip  

Public Appointments

Legal Practice

Micky joined Pacific Chambers in 2011 and has developed his practice in both civil and criminal litigation and alternative dispute resolution. 

His area of expertise in civil practice includes maritime, shipping and aviation disputes, commercial contract disputes, company disputes, personal injury disputes, money lending disputes, personal data privacy, probate practice, defamation, legal aid appeals, land and adverse possession disputes and cases involving the Building Management Ordinance.

In relation to his criminal practice, he has defended in trial hearings, made pleas of mitigation, bail applications and stay applications.  He is presently serving as a Counsel-on-fiat and has extensive experience prosecuting in Magistracies. 

He also has the experience of conducting death inquests at the Coroner’s Court, including examining medical/expert witnesses and interested persons and answering coroner’s queries. 

He also had extensive opportunities working with his pupil masters in admiralty related litigation, including ship arrests and collision, company related cases such as share capital reduction, commercial crime and SFC related cases.

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Micky has attended various seminars and training in Mediation and Arbitration offered by the Hong Kong Academy of Law, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators.  It is also his intention to expand his practice in the field of Mediation and Arbitration. 

As a HKMAAL accredited general mediator, he has ample experience in conducting mediation as both a mediator and legal advisor.  He has mediated numerous cases involving a variety of areas of law, including:

• Land (including landlords and tenants, vendor and purchaser, water seepage disputes, adverse possession of land, building management applications and incorporated owners);
• Tort (including personal injuries, nuisance, defamation, medical negligence and professional negligence);
• Shipping, aviation and logistics (including bill of lading, charterparties, bunker and dangerous goods disputes, passenger claims, supply chain and warehouse disputes and freight forwarding);
• Company (including shareholders disputes, directors’ duties, startups, insolvency);
• Commercial (including sale of goods, services not provided, loan disputes and bankruptcy);
• Probate; and
• Intellectual property.

In total, he has mediated, advised and attended more than 100 mediation cases.

He has accepted and welcomes mediation and arbitration appointments overseas and in Mainland China.

Publication

Annotator of ‘Juvenile Offenders Ordinance (Cap 226)’ of The Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong (LexisNexis Butterworths 2020)

Book Chapters on ‘Ch 9 – Collision Claims’, ‘Ch 13 – Marine Pollution’ and ‘Ch 14 – Carriage of Passengers and Luggage’ in Mr Justice Barma JA, Robert Merkin QC and Kyriaki Noussia (eds), Maritime Law and Practice in Hong Kong (2^nd Edn) (Sweet & Maxwell 2019)

Co-authored, Butterworths Hong Kong Criminal Law and Procedure Handbook (2^nd Edn) (LexisNexis Butterworths 2019)

Annotator of ‘Prevention of Child Pornography Ordinance (Cap 579)’ of The Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong (LexisNexis Butterworths 2019)

Annotator of ‘Civil Aviation Ordinance (Cap 448)’ of The Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong (LexisNexis Butterworths 2019)

Book Chapters on ‘Ch 9 – Collision Claims’, ‘Ch 13 – Marine Pollution’ and ‘Ch 14 – Carriage of Passengers and Luggage’ in Mr Justice Barma JA and Mary Thomson (eds), Maritime Law and Practice in Hong Kong (Sweet & Maxwell 2015)

Clement K.M. Au

Clement is a general practitioner with a broad range of practice in both civil and criminal litigation. He joined chambers upon completion of pupillage with Mr Andrew Li, Mr Hectar Pun SC, Mr Michael Delaney, Mr Bernard Man SC and Mr Frederick Chan. Upon completion of pupillage, Clement has focused his practice in the following areas:

• Commercial litigation, including shareholders dispute, contract claims, winding up petitions and insolvency claims;
• Matrimonial proceeding;
• Land and tenancy disputes, including adverse possession, DMC and mortgagee actions before the Lands Tribunal;
• Judicial review;
• Intellectual properties and defamation;
• Personal injuries cases

Clement has also been instructed to appear on his own in the Court of Appeal and the Court of Final Appeal.

In relation to Clement's criminal practice, he has considerable experiences in legal visits to the police station, making pleas in mitigation, bail applications and attended trial hearings in Magistrates Courts.

Clement is also regularly appointed as mediator in a wide range of family and personal injuries disputes.

Clement is also a part-time lecturer for the PCLL course of the University of Hong Kong since 2016

Clement is bilingual and is available to conduct cases in both English and Chinese.

Patrick S.L. Wong

Barrister-at-law with extensive practical experience in banking laws, in particular banking fraud, bank failure and the legal documentation in respect of options/derivative banking products in Hong Kong.

Since he was called to the bar, he has maintained a balanced practice in civil and criminal matters. The civil disputes included issues in human rights, banking, securities trading, land and property, commercial, employment, insurance, personal injuries, defamation, family, probate and bankruptcy. The criminal cases handled included high court and appeal cases. He also acted as advocate in arbitration and mediation cases and helped in the legal education in the banking industry.