Category: Recent Cases

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 …

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 …

Robert Pang SC and Chris Ng represented the appellant (respondent) in HKSAR v Chow Hang Tung (鄒幸彤) (2024) 27 HKCFAR 71, [2024] HKCFA 2. D was convicted after trial of inciting others to knowingly take part in an unauthorised assembly, contrary to the common law and …

Jin Pao SC and Vincent Chen represented the defendant (respondent) in Hu Lan (胡蘭) v David Golden (達偉) [2024] 1 HKLRD 1252, [2024] HKCA 108. P brought a claim against D for repayment of loans in the total sums of US$8,680,000 (the Sum), allegedly pursuant to a …

Jeff Yau and Cyrus Lau represented the plaintiff in Au Din Har Ellen (區殿霞) v Au Yee Wan (區綺雲) [2024] 1 HKLRD 825, [2024] HKCFI 199. In P's action against D1-5, D3-5 filed an acknowledgment of service of the writ. On the same day that D4-5 filed …

Fiona Chong represented the defendant in Lam Fung Sin v Lee Yuet Wing [2024] 1 HKLRD 782, [2024] HKDC 33. P and D were a married couple. During marriage, P purchased a property in her own name. D had been residing at the property until P commenced …

Jeff Yau represented the plaintiff in Wong Aileen v Diasqua International Ltd [2024] 2 HKC 611, [2023] HKDC 1661. The action arose out of a dispute over suspected water seepage from the defendant’s property (‘D’s Property’) down to the plaintiff’s property underneath the D’s Property (‘P’s Property’). …

Jeff Yau represented the 4th defendant in Mason Group Holdings Ltd v Tam Joseph Wing On (譚榮安) [2024] 1 HKLRD 601, [2023] HKCFI 3305. P1-2 (Ps) belonged to the same group of companies. Ps' claim concerned two lots of shares the group had purchased in tandem from D5 …

Richard Todd KC represented the respondent in YSG (YX) v LYAG [2024] 2 HKC 201, [2023] HKCA 1319. The Family Court determined the ancillary relief proceedings after trial by rejecting the petitioner’s claim that there was allegedly a significant shortfall of assets when comparing the total must …