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 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 (including adverse possession), 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 a contributing editor of Hong Kong Civil Procedure (Hong Kong White Book) 2022 and the online Employment Practical Guidance platform of LexisNexis in 2021.

Teresa is bilingual. She is also proficient in Putonghua, having attained Grade Two, Level A in the National Putonghua Proficiency Test.