Alison Choy

Call

2014 (Hong Kong)

Professional Qualifications

HKMAAL Accredited Mediator (General and Family), Hong Kong Mediation Accreditation Association Limited

Areas of Practice

Companies
Family & Matrimonial Law
Mediation
Medical Negligence & Personal Injury
Property & Land

Contact

Email: [email protected]

Secretary:Ms. Suki Wong
[email protected]

Alison has a broad civil practice spanning family and matrimonial law, commercial law, probate, land and personal injuries. Within her family law practice, she frequently advises on surrogacy law.

Fluent in both English, Cantonese and Putonghua, she is regularly instructed to conduct trials and civil appeals, with a particular focus on family, personal injuries and land disputes. She also has experience handling urgent applications, including injunctions.

She is frequently appointed as a mediator in both civil and family matters, including Mediator-assisted FDRs.

Deputy District Judge, Family Court (January 2026)

The University of Hong Kong: BSocSc (Govt & Laws) LLB, PCLL

Family, Matrimonial and Probate

  • HSC & Anor v. T [2026] HKCFI 770 – acted for the successful Applicants in an application for a parental order in respect of children born out of a PRC surrogacy agreement
  • CS & CTW (Parental Order: s.12 Parent and Child Ordinance (Cap.429)) [2024] 5 HKLRD 70 – application for a parental order in respect of children born out of foreign surrogacy arrangements carried out in Thailand and Cambodia
  • Z (Minor) (Declaration of Non-Parentage) [2023] 2 HKLRD 772 – application for a declaration of non-parentage under the Court’s parens patriae jurisdiction and Order 15 rule 16 to remove the father-son relationship between the Applicant and his birth certificate father (who is not his biological father)
  • Re T & L (Parental Order: s.12 Parent and Child Ordinance (Cap.429)) [2022] 2 HKLRD 685, [2022] HKCFI 747; [2022] HKCFI 2150 – application for a parental order in favour of parents to a child born out of a surrogacy arrangement carried out in Georgia
  • ZFY v. SCHC [2022] HKCA 794 – leave to appeal against the trial judge’s decision to grant leave to the mother to relocate the child out of Hong Kong permanently (led by Robert Pang SC)
  • FH v. WB [2019] 5 HKC 99, [2019] HKCFI 1748 – application for parental orders in favour of parents to children born out of a Californian surrogacy arrangement and declarations regarding the constitutionality and interpretation of certain provisions in the Parent and Child Ordinance (Cap. 429) and the Human Reproductive Technology Ordinance (Cap. 561) (led by Anita Yip SC)
  • CCM v. KPH [2022] HKCFI 918 – application for an order appointing the maternal uncle as the minor’s guardian following the mother’s death
  • Re D (Parental Order: s.12 of the Parent and Child Ordinance (Cap. 429)) [2015] 1 HKLRD 229 – appeared for the Applicants (led by Johannes Chan SC) to seek a parental order in favour of parents to a child born out of a Californian surrogacy arrangement
  • CD & Anor v. TKH & Anor [2021] HKFC 296 – resisting the 2nd Respondent’s application to stay the proceedings (in which the Applicants applied for inter alia directions for the 2nd Respondent to take a DNA test to determine his parentage of a minor) on grounds of want of jurisdiction and forum non convenience
  • LWT v. TKH [2025] HKFC 79 – ancillary relief trial concerning spousal maintenance and child maintenance
  • CCMJ v. SSM [2025] HKFC 89 – trial on variation of maintenance and discharge of undertakings
  • Li Chi Ping v. Sin King [2023] HKCFI 1929 – an application for the passing over of the executrix

Personal Injuries & Employees’ Compensation

  • Wong Oi Kwok v. Yau Yuet Man t/a Wu So Chai Building Materials & Anor [2023] HKDC 98 – trial for an employees’ compensation claim
  • Yan Jiancheng v. Sung King Leung & Anor [2020] HKDC 512 – trial for an employees’ compensation claim

Commercial

  • Tsang Kin Chung Terry v. Wong Chung Mang Jonah & Anor [2022] HKCA 377; [2022] HKCA 1080 – application for security for costs of the Defendants’ appeal; application for leave to appeal to the CFA
  • Tien Sau Tong Medicine Co (Hong Kong) Ltd v. Cheung Po Ling & Anor [2021] HKCA 1997 – an appeal concerning the misappropriation of company’s funds by an employee
  • Lip Chung Shek v. Lee Wai Kwan Edmund [2025] HKDC 679leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal against the decision granting the Defendant conditional leave to defend a claim for defaulted loans
  • Man Chin Chin Ivy & Anor v. Blandus International Development Ltd & Anor [2025] HKCFI 490 – trial concerning contracts for the sale of goods and landed property

Land & Property

  • To Yung Sing Herman v. Szeto Chak Mei & Ors [2018] 3 HKLRD 370, [2018] HKCFI 1506 – a vendor-purchaser summons regarding the issues of vacant possession and whether certain requisitions in a sale and purchase had been satisfactorily answered
  • Zheng Ruoting v. Chan Hoi Ting [2020] HKCFI 2360 – a vendor-purchaser summons to seek declarations as to whether certain requisitions had been satisfactorily answered