Commercial practice

• Techteryx Ltd v First Digital Trust Company Ltd & Ors [2025] HKCFI 4023. Applications for appointment of receivers and proprietary injunctions in US$500m investment fraud claim.

 

• Re Goldstone Holdings Limited [2024] HKCFI 3598. Application to strike out winding up petition. 

• HKIAC arbitration (2023). Counsel for Respondents in $88m claim for breaches of Series C financing agreement and for asset stripping. Hong Kong and PRC law. Three-member panel. Five-day trial. Interim measures.

• Mark Richard Charles Sutherland v CRB (a firm) [2023] 1 HKLRD 1. Application for orders to tax solicitor / client bills. Questions of retainer by conduct and whether bills ‘final’ in nature. High Court guidance for applications to tax solicitor / client bills. 

• HKIAC arbitration (2022). Counsel for Claimants in $29m claim for breach of guarantees in ¬$200m product distribution agreements. Hong Kong and Singapore law. 

• Hydrotech Waterproofing Solutions v Shun Yuen Construction [2023] 2 HKLRD 173. Non-party costs order against third party. [2022] HKCFI 2785. Three-day trial of $16.6m contract claims. Questions of the formation of contracts across sub-contracting relationships.

• KH Foundations v Chun Yip Construction Co Ltd [2020] HKCFI 3019. Applications for production of documents said to be commercially sensitive under O.24 r.11 and further and better particulars.

Public law and commercial judicial review

• So Tsz Man v Director of Immigration [2026] 1 HKC 496. Foreign national mother’s outside policy application to reside in Hong Kong to care for permanent resident child following premature death of father. Whether refusal Wednesbury unreasonable. Whether Director obliged to consider BOR 3 risks facing child on relocation to Indonesia anticipated on removal of mother.

• TM v Torture Claims Appeal Board [2023] HKCFI 2662. Iranian refugee claim. Whether wrong to exclude evidence of risk given at previous hearing, not repeated at subsequent hearing on grounds that it could re-traumatise.

• Harjang Singh v Secretary for Security & Anor [2022] 4 HKLRD 99, [2022] 5 HKC 718 (CA). Leading authority on the principles constraining administrative detention for the purposes of removal from Hong Kong. Discussion of time taken pursuing non-refoulement claims; fresh justifications discerned by the court; re-offending risk; how a ‘reasonable period’ is to be specified; impact on family members; appeals in a Hardial Singh cases.

• AB v X & Ors [2021] 1 HKLRD 1259, [2022] 2 HKC 604. Application to set aside order effecting letter of request issued by administrative judge of the United States Federal Board of Reserve, in aid of $8m claim for ‘civil monetary penalty’. Whether the Board was a ‘court or tribunal’ and whether the US proceedings were ‘civil proceedings’, such that the Hong Kong court had jurisdiction.

• Gurinder Preet Singh & Anor v TCAB [2022] HKCA 587. Appeal for leave to apply for judicial review of Board’s non-refoulement decision. Questions of correct approach to internal relocation, and use of outdated COI.

• Safder Tehseen v Secretary for Security & Anor [2022] 6 HKC 484. Application of Hardial Singh / Harjang Singh principles where individual on recognizance was arrested but not charged.

• Chairman of the Southern District Council v Secretary of the Southern District Council [2021] 5 HKLRD 52, [2022] 1 HKC 213, [2021] HKCFI 500, [2021] HKCFI 1920. Challenge to decision not to provide secretarial services in respect of meeting agenda items said to be ultra vires the Council’s statutory powers.

• Azubuine Solomon Kingsley v TCAB / NRCPO [2021] HKCA 1940, [2022] HKCA 1364. Admission of new evidence in non-refoulement challenge appeal. Whether cognitive impairment responsible for evidence ruled inadmissible. Whether credibility assessment lawful.

• Riaz Hussain & Anor v Permanent Secretary for Security [2021] HKCA 1017. Appeal in challenge to refusal to suspend or rescind deportation order. Whether seriousness of offence and rehabilitation ‘mandatory’ considerations. Whether BL31 right to enter and remain engaged where deportation order invalidates permission to remain.

• Y v Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption [2020] 4 HKC 206. Judicial review of ICAC warrant to enter and search premises granted under the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance. Whether warrant defective for insufficient specificity.

• He Wei v Director of Immigration [2020] 2 HKC 648. Judicial review of prospective investment visa decision. Whether Director’s valuation of company rational; whether JR premature / should be permitted.

Matrimonial finance and family practice

• EBS v NTCD [2024] 2 HKLRD 881 (CA). Appeal of ancillary relief judgment over assets of $193m. Whether compensation available to wife for sacrifice of investment banking career. Mesne profits being rental income or investment return on property occupied by wife in breach of order for sale.

• MS v SPC [2024] HKFC 132. Xydhias type applications by both parties on eve of trial of ancillary claims over $90m. Whether sufficient agreement reached to dispose of trial. 

• ALDL v FTFC & Anor [2024] HKFC 13, [2024] HKFC 70. Trials over fourteen days of preliminary issues viz beneficial ownership of landed properties and ancillary relief claims involving alleged assets of $96m. [2023] HKFC 6. Application for further / top up litigation funding. Questions of the scope of previous award, the status of costs already ordered to be taxed and effect of delay. [2025] HKFC 125. Variation of ancillary relief-costs order where sanctioned offer not accepted. 

• YSG (YX) v LYAG [2022] HKFC 114. Nine-day trial of ancillary relief claim over assets of $248m. 

• BBM v BKR [2022] HKFC 114. Four-day trial of permanent relocation application following abduction from Hong Kong to the United States. 

• Singh v Adita [2021] HKCA 469. Procedure to set aside decree nisi on grounds of fraud, misrepresentation and non-service. 

• SG v GDV [2021] HKFC 163. Resisting applications for MPS and children’s maintenance on grounds of collateral High Court proceedings and fairness of offer.