Principal Service Areas:

Civil and criminal litigation, property, private clients.

Experience:

Louis was first admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in January 1988. He practiced in Rakisons, a medium sized Chancery Lane firm, handling commercial conveyancing matters. He returned to Hong Kong in 1989 where he was admitted. He then handled the "Stock Exchange" trial from 1990 to 1993.

In 1993, he joined the litigation department of Messrs. F. Zimmern & Co. and remained there until he joined Messrs. Haldanes in 1997.

He was a member of the Law Society Criminal Law and Procedure Committee and a past Chairman. He also sat on the Criminal Court Users Committee and other committees of the Law Society of Hong Kong. He is also a Prosecutor for the Law Society Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal as well as a Clerk to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. He is a member of the Overseas Lawyers Examination Panel, Insider Dealing Tribunal and the Obscene Article Tribunal.

In 1994, he sat as a permanently appointed temporarily Magistrate in Tsuen Wan Magistrate. In 1995, he also sat as a Presiding Officer of the Labour Tribunal.

His experience is first and foremost a litigator, in both civil and criminal matters handling complex commercial crime cases as well as civil disputes including commercial, Landlord and Tenant and property related matters.