Robert Pang, SC
Call
1988 (Hong Kong)
2012 Inner Bar (Hong Kong)
Professional Qualifications
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2000)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (2000)
CEDR Accredited Mediator (2007)
Contact
Secretary: Ms. Estel Lai
[email protected]
Robert Pang is a versatile advocate, equally at home conducting criminal cases and civil cases, from magistracies to the Court of Final Appeal. He has a broad criminal as well as civil, commercial and family law practice. He is also active in arbitration, both as counsel and arbitrator. He is fluent in Putonghua and has conducted cases in Cantonese and Putonghua.
- LL.B. (Hons.), University of Hong Kong (1987)
- P.C.LL., University of Hong Kong (1988)
Public Office
- Deputy High Court Judge (September 2014, October 2015, August 2016)
- Deputy District Judge (November 2008, January 2010)
- Deputy Magistrate (August 1998)
- Deputy Chairman of Administrative Appeals Board (2016-2021)
- Member, Law Reform Commission (2015-2020)
- Chairman, Insurance Agents Registration Board (2017-2019)
- Member, Council of the Duty Lawyer Service (2011-present)
- Member, Council of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (2010-2013)
- Member, Steering Committee on Resource Centre for Unrepresented Litigants
Hong Kong Bar Association
- Member, Management Committee of Bar Free Legal Services Scheme
- Member, Committee on Arbitration
- Member, Standing Committee on Funds for Barristers
- Chan Ki Kau v. Hong Kong Police Force [2020] 5 HKLRD 653 (human rights – complaint investigation mechanism)
- Lui Ming Lok v. Ng Im Fong Loretta [2021] 1 HKC 208 (validity of marriage)
- SJ v. Hong Dau Construction Co. Ltd. (2019) 22 HKCFAR 119 (construction sites – meaning of “immediate supervision”)
- HKSAR v. Sham Wai Kee (2019) 22 HKCFAR 11 (false representation – mistake of law)
- QMY v. GSS (2017) 20 HKCFAR 3030 (maintenance of children – jurisdiction)
- HKSAR v Ngo Van Nam [2016] 5 HKLRD 1; [2016] 5 HKC 231 (sentencing – discount for guilty pleas)
- Paul Y General Contractors v HKSAR (2013) 16 HKCFAR 487 (factories and industrial undertaking – liability of proprietors)
- Raymond Chen v. HKSAR [2011] 2 HKLRD 189 (right to silence)
- Z v. HKSAR (2007) 10 HKCFAR 183 (sentencing – assistance to authorities)
- Lee Fuk Hing v. HKSAR (2004) 7 HKCFAR 600 (right to silence, burden of proof)
- China Chance Corp. Ltd. v. Rockefeller Group Int’l Inc. [2010] 6 HKC 337 (service out of jurisdiction)
- Loyal Luck Trading Ltd. v. Tam Chun Wah [2008] 4 HKLRD 681 (Court of Appeal), [2007] 4 HKLRD 917 (Court of First Instance) (easements)
- Leung Po Chun v. Yat Lee Booth – Construction Co. Ltd. CACV399/2007 (Court of Appeal), HCPI1099/2006 (Court of First Instance) (personal injuries – contributory negligence)
- Ho Jan Tim v. Fong Tak Ying & Anor. HCPI 519/2004 (tort – traffic accident)
- 范焯仁訴范美雲, CACV307/2006 (Court of Appeal) HCA387/2003 (Court of First Instance) (gift inter vivos – trial and appeal conducted in Chinese)