Principal Practice Areas

Civil litigation, with an emphasis on complex commercial disputes

Areas involved:

• Breach of trust / Directors’ duties
• Urgent ex parte applications including worldwide and domestic Mareva Injunctions, Anton Pillar Orders and Norwich Pharmacal Orders
• Shareholders disputes
• Contractual disputes
• Employment disputes
• Banking and Insurance
• Defamation
• SFC and HKMA investigations
• Contentious probate matters
• Professional negligence
• Adverse possession claims
• Personal injuries
• Mediation

Some Reported Cases:

Pacific Electric Wire & Cable v Hu Hung Chiu and others

• (FAMV 28 to 32 of 2009)
• (CACV 208, 210, 211, 212, 351 and 352 of 2008)
• (HCA 2746 and 2763 of 2004)
• (HCA 1299 of 2005)

Siegfied Adalbert Unruh v Hans-Joerg Seeberger and Another

• (FACV 9 and 10 of 2006), also reported in [2007] 2 HKLRD 414; (2007) 10 HKCFAR 31
• (CACV 297 and 298 of 2004)
• HCA 6641 of 2000 (7 July 2004)
• HCA 6641 of 2000 (3 September 2004)

Christopher Gordon Young v Lee Chu

• (HCPI 1484 of 2000)
• (CACV 131 of 2003, 19 Dec 2003)
• (CACV 131 of 2003, 19 May 2004)

TV Products (HK) Ltd v Kalyanaraman Tiruvilwamala Ramachandran (HCA 2438 of 2006)

Falcon Insurance Co (Hong Kong) Ltd v Ng Kwok Fai and Taclon Industries Limited (HCA 2585 of 2005)

Ling Siu Lam Paul t/a Dotmeon Consulting Group v AMD Far East Ltd (HCA 1410 of 2004)

Paul William Halloran v Tsang Ming Sang and Another (HCPI 1216 of 2003)

Shanghai Land Holdings Ltd (In Receivership) v Chau Ching Ngai (HCA 2704 of 2003)

Re California International (Far East) Ltd.

Worldcom, Inc and Another v Clinton Adkins Rowe (CACV 161 of 2002)

Re Wellead Construction and Engineering Co. Ltd. (HCCW 730 of 2000)