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
Alison has a broad civil practice which includes family/matrimonial law, commercial law, company law, probate, land law, and personal injuries. In her family law practice, she often advises clients on surrogacy law.
Fluent in both English and Cantonese, Alison is regularly instructed to conduct trials and civil appeals, concentrating particularly on the following areas: family, personal injuries and land. She also has experience in dealing with urgent matters, such as including obtaining and resisting injunctive relief, prohibition orders, etc.
She is regularly appointed as a mediator in both civil and family matters.
She was a contributor of various chapters of the Annotated Ordinances and Atkin’s Court Forms Hong Kong, as well as the chapter on “Right to Family” in Law of the Hong Kong Constitution (3rd Edn., 2021).
The University of Hong Kong: BSocSc (Govt & Laws) LLB, PCLL
Family, Matrimonial and Probate
- 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
- Z v. Y [2023] 3 HKC 1, [2022] HKCFI 3695 – appeared for the Applicant (a minor) to seek an order that the Respondent was not his father in a case where the CFI was asked to invoke, for the first time, its parens patriae jurisdiction, as well as its power under RHC Order 15 rule 16, to grant a declaration of non-parentage.
- 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 & MH v. WB, HB, B & G [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 679 – leave 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
- 中僑貨倉大廈業主立案法團 對 新旺參茸藥業行有限公司 [2022] HKLdT 39 –trial to recover damages following the Respondent’s obstructions to the repair works carried out by the Applicant