In Szeto Wing Leong v Hong Kong Housing Authority [2026] HKCFI 2033, the Court of First Instance ruled in favour of the Applicant in a judicial review concerning the implementation of the Marking Scheme for Estate Management Enforcement in Public Rental Housing Estates. The case centered on whether the Housing Authority’s actual practice of requiring neighbourhood misdeeds to be “caught red-handed” was inconsistent with the written policies embodied in its own Operation Manu

In HKSAR v Tung Hoi-Yee Kenneth (ESCC 1217/2025), Vinci Lam SC and Kasper Fan represented a defendant charged with assaulting his wife in their former matrimonial home. The defendant elected not to testify in court and the defence case turned solely on the cross-examination of the wife. After a 3-day trial, the Court accepted the defence’s submissions in their entirety. In particular, the Court held that the wife’s testimony was incredible and unreasonable; not only was he