Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
General civil practice, with emphasis on land law, Chinese law and custom and law of probate and administration. Appearance in the Court of Final Appeal and the Court of Appeal in own right and as junior for claims involving adverse possession and encroachment, conveyancing, ding rights, tsos and tongs, Beddoe Orders, law of succession, arbitration and insolvency and bankruptcy law. Also court work on winding up, intellectual property rights, building management and building and construction. Appointment as a Deputy District Judge, District Court, Judiciary of the HKSAR in May 2024. Land 1. Rank Profit Industries Limited v Secretary for Justice FAMV 8/2009, unreported, 25th June 2009 (CFA); [2009] 1 HKLRD 194 (CA) (principles of non-derogation from grant) 2. Hong Kong Kam Lan Koon Ltd v Realray Investments Ltd (2010) 13 HKCFAR 215; CACV 79/2008, unreported, 18th February 2009 (adverse possession) 3. Lee Bing Cheung v Secretary for Justice [2014] 6 HKC 351 (CA); [2013] 3 HKC 511 (CFI) (adverse possession and encroachment; proprietary estoppel) 4. Tang Tak Sum & Another v Tang Kai Fong [2015] 1 HKLRD 286 (CA); [2013] 4 HKLRD 16 (CFI); [2020] 2 HKLRD 338 (Chinese customary law; adverse possession by co-owners) Chinese Law and Custom, Probate and Administration and Trust 5. Leung Lai Fong v Ho Sin Ying (2009) 12 HKCFAR 581 (meaning of 'mother' under Intestates' Estates Ordinance (Cap.73)) 6. Re Man Sham Chung Wui [2011] 1 HKLRD 427 (CA); HCMP 2417/2007, unreported, 21st January 2010 (court directions for sale of lands of business Wui under Chinese customary law) 7. Lam Yui Ming v Lam Yui Pun & Others [2020] HKCFI 2011 (court directions for distribution of sale proceeds and rental income of lands of ancestral tso under Chinese customary law) Arbitration 8. S Co v B Co [2014] 6 HKC 421 (international arbitration) 9. Kim Hung Construction & Engineering Co Ltd v Standard Refrigeration & Engineering Co Ltd CACV 90/2015, unreported, 7th January 2016; HCCT 37/2012, unreported, 21st June 2013 (domestic arbitration) Insolvency & Bankruptcy 10. China Merchants Bank Co Ltd & Another v Cheng Chao Ming [2010] 3 HKLRD 485 (CA) (Court has no jurisdiction to order the relevant period of bankruptcy to cease to run for more than one time) 11. Re Richfame Dynasty Limited [2018] HKCFI 1532 (permanent stay of companies' winding up) 12. Re ACE International (BVI) Limited [2020] 2 HKLRD 508 (Striking out of a petition for winding up on the just and equitable ground against a foreign incorporated company)