Category: Case Highlight

Philip Dykes SC, Samantha Lau and Velda Yau represented the applicant (appellant) in Lai Chee Ying v Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the HKSAR [2024] 2 HKLRD 1109, [2024] HKCA 400. Following the Secretary for Justice's unsuccessful appeals against Poon CJHC's decision granting T, …

Hilda Wong represented the plaintiff in Re Tang Hoi Chun [2024] 3 HKC 222, [2024] HKDC 143 and successfully obtained an order for vacation of the registered charging orders. The plaintiff applied in the District Court to vacate the charging order nisi and charging order …

Jeff Yau represented the petitioner and the 14th respondent in Acropolis Ltd v W&Q Investment Ltd [2024] 2 HKLRD 912, [2024] HKCFI 1065. P petitioned for the winding up of C. Upon P’s application, K and H were appointed as provisional liquidators (PLs) in respect …

Alice Mok SC and Ashok K. Sakhrani represented the defendant in Yum Siu Wah v Wong Chi Shing [2024] 2 HKLRD 1292, [2024] HKCA 327. In this appeal on quantum, P, a salesperson of “super cars” who suffered finger and neck injuries in a road …

Philip Dykes SC, Albert NB Wong and Esmond Wong represented the appellants in HKSAR v Chow Hang Tung (鄒幸彤) & Ors [2024] 4 HKC 46, [2024] HKCFI 553. The appellants were office bearers of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of …

Philip Dykes SC, Jeffrey Tam and Ernie Tung represented the applicant in HKSAR v Tam Tak Chi (譚得志) [2024] 2 HKLRD 565, [2024] HKCA 231. D was charged, inter alia, with seven charges of uttering seditious words to the public contrary to s.10(1)(b) of the …

Robert Pang SC and Simon Kwok represented the 6th and 8th defendants in HKSAR v Lai Chee Ying (Unauthorized Assembly) (No 2) [2024] 3 HKC 578, [2024] HKCFA 4. The defendants were charged with organizing an unauthorized assembly (Charge 1) and with knowingly taking part …

Abraham Chan SC and Albert NB Wong represented the applicant (respondent) in CB v Commissioner of Police [2024] 2 HKLRD 104, [2024] HKCA 172. CB was a Philippine woman who was employed as a foreign domestic helper by Z. She alleged that during her employment, …

Jeff Yau represented the petitioner and the 14th respondent in Acropolis Ltd v W&Q Investment Ltd & Ors [2024] 3 HKC 249, [2024] HKCFI 482. The petitioner petitioned for the winding up of the Company on unfair prejudice and just and equitable grounds. Provisional liquidators …

Philip Dykes SC and Stephen LW Tang represented the applicant in Tang Pun Sang (鄧盤生) v Tang Kwok Shu (鄧國樹) [2024] 1 HKLRD 1226, [2024] HKCFI 359. X, an indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories, applied for judicial review to inter alia require the Director of Lands, the fifth putative respondent, to accept …