Category: Case Highlight

Nigel Kat SC and Madeleine Booth represented the petitioner in A v B [2025] 4 HKC 231, [2025] HKCFI 1596. The petitioner wife sought ancillary relief in divorce proceedings commenced in 2016, focusing on the respondent husband’s asset and fund management companies (‘CD Group’). In …

Lydia Leung represented the debtor in Re Mok Tsan San (Debtor) [2025] 2 HKLRD 827, [2025] HKCFI 499. Under a credit facility agreement executed among Ps as lenders and D as one of the individual guarantors (the Facility Agreement), a first loan of $100 million …

Tasman Tam represented the plaintiff in Lam Kwok Hing (Administrator of the Estate of Lam Ping Sang, deceased) v Lau Ha (劉霞) (also known as Lau Ha Lily) & Ors [2025] 4 HKC 267, [2025] HKCFI 1354. Sha Tin Rural Committee (沙田鄉事委員會) (STRC), the 3rd …

Lydia Leung represented the petitioner in Re Liu Wing Ting Stephen (Debtor) [2025] 2 HKLRD 744, [2025] HKCFI 1434. In May 2024, the petitioner (P) issued a statutory demand against the debtor (D). There was no dispute that $2 million in loans was advanced from …

Esmond Wong represented the respondent in SQW v LPC [2025] 2 HKLRD 649, [2025] HKFC 56. This was an application by a moneylender, X, for joinder in matrimonial proceedings. X had granted loans to the husband (H) prior to the institution of divorce proceedings by …

Jason Wong and Esmond Wong represented the defendant in Leader Screws Manufacturing Co Ltd v Huang Shunkui [2025] 2 HKLRD 485, [2025] HKCA 276. P was a Hong Kong company and D was P's accounting clerk. P alleged that D had practised supplier fraud from …

Lydia Leung and Belinda Law represented the plaintiffs in Lui Yau Tak (雷有得) & Anor v Melofield Nursery and Landscape Contractor Ltd (經緯園藝有限公司) [2025] 3 HKC 721, [2025] HKCFI 1037. The 1st plaintiff, then director of the defendant company, and the 2nd plaintiff, a shareholder …

Peter Barnes acted for the petitioner in AA v BB (Matrimonial Proceedings: Publication of Judgment) [2025] 4 HKLRD 526, [2025] HKFC 128. The Court handed down an ancillary relief judgment (the Judgment) in the matrimonial proceedings between the respondent wife (R) and the petitioner husband …

Jeff Yau represented the supporting creditor Gu Yandong (respondent) in Re China Zenith Chemical Group Ltd (中國天化工集團有限公司) [2025] 2 HKLRD 308, [2025] HKCA 253. C was a limited company listed in Hong Kong. Between 2013 and 2015, C issued and a large number of investors …

Philip Dykes SC, Jeffrey Tam, and Ernie Tung represented the appellant in HKSAR v Tam Tak Chi (2025) 28 HKCFAR 122, [2025] HKCFA 4. D was charged, inter alia, with seven charges of uttering seditious words to the public contrary to s.10(1)(b) in Pt.II of …