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In HKSAR v Daikin Airconditioning (Hong Kong) Ltd (D1), Lau Wai-lung (D2) and Mak Shing Kee Engineering Ltd (D3) (ESS 33531–33544 & 33550/2025), Marco Li Kwok Wai represented D1 and Rachel Ronald represented D2 and D3. After a three-day trial before Deputy Magistrate Erica Chong in the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts, all three defendants were acquitted, with costs. The summonses were brought under the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance (Cap. 59) and the Constructi

In Cheng Wai Kwong v Chang Lai Yue [2026] HKDC 992, Ching Him Ho successfully obtained declaratory relief for the Plaintiff confirming his possessory title to land in Yuen Long. The Plaintiff’s claim was based on over 27 years of continuous adverse possession starting from around 1998, with the Plaintiff tacking onto his late father’s prior exclusive physical control and intention to possess. Crucially, the Court’s attention was drawn to a previous legal action brought

In Wong Yam Yin v Gao Jinbo (王欽賢 訴 高景波) [2026] HKDC 933, the plaintiff, the founder and chairman of Golden Wheel Tiandi Holdings Company Limited (Stock Code: 1232) brought claims against the defendant for an injunction to restrain conduct constituting defamation, harassment, and intimidation. Upon the plaintiff’s application for urgent interlocutory injunctions, the defendant gave undertakings not to further publish defamatory content or any words with similar meaning and ef

In HKSAR v Cheung SY (ESCC 2422/2025), Martin Hui SC and Stephen Siu represented a Defendant charged with money laundering. The Prosecution alleged that the Defendant knowingly dealt with proceeds of an indictable offence, namely an “Investment Scam” with the deceived sum of over HK$6 million, or have reasonable grounds to believe that such property represented proceeds of an indictable offence. At trial, the Defence challenged whether the Prosecution could identify and pro

Priscilia Lam SC and Kasper Fan were instructed by the Official Receiver’s Office to represent HKA in 香港特別行政區訴香港市民支援愛國民主運動聯合會（D1），李卓人 （D2），鄒幸彤 （D4）HCCC 155/2022. This was the first time the High Court has tried defendants charged under Article 23 of NSL, namely by inciting others to commit subversion. After a 24-day trial, the Court held that D2 and D4 committed acts which sufficed to constitute inciting others to commit subversion. Pursuant to the doctrine of attribution, D1

In HKSAR v. Chen Beibei (DCCC 166/2025), Vinci Lam SC and Ferrida Chan represented a defendant accused of passing 24 counterfeit US$100 banknotes to a bank teller, allegedly knowing or believing them to be counterfeit currency. The defence case was that she did not know they were counterfeit notes as they were passed to her by her father whom she trusted yet she stated in her cautioned interviews that she herself changed them because the police told her not to mention her fat

In Centre Chase Investment Ltd v IO of Castle Peak Road Int'l Industrial Bldg [2026] HKCFA 26, the Court of Final Appeal confirmed that incorporated owners of Hong Kong's buildings can, through their management committees, validly waive a breach of the Deed of Mutual Covenant as long as the power is exercised conscientiously and reasonably. The type of breach and its seriousness have to be considered in deciding the appropriate option to tackle the breach. In reaching the abo

In JIL Investments Limited v Jesus Is Lord Church Limited [2026] HKCFI 1119, the Court of First Instance ruled that the Defendant, the Hong Kong branch of a global evangelical Christian church founded in the Philippines, after having paid in excess of HK$23 million by way of monthly payments over 12 years, had validly exercised an option to purchase its premises in Sham Shui Po from the Plaintiff landlord for a further HK$1. In 2003, the parties entered into a Lease and Purch

In China Energy Development Holdings Limited v Yeung Ka Sing, Carson [2026] HKCFI 1693, the Court ruled that the Plaintiff, represented by Mr Jacky Lam, could recover amounts owed to it by personal guarantee in excess of HK$234 million. The issue was whether the Defendant, a prominent businessman, had in fact signed two personal guarantee deeds whose effect was to transfer the debt of a media company of which he was a substantial shareholder to him personally. Between 2008

The Court of Appeal’s recent judgment in HKSAR v Yau Kai Fung [2026] HKCA 885 brings welcome clarity to how courts should sentence offenders trafficking in more than one type of dangerous drug. For over a decade, sentencing courts faced with a “cocktail” or combination of drugs were guided by HKSAR v Chan Yuk Leong (CACC 318/2013), which set out “three check tests”, namely absurdity test, conversion test and ratio test, to cross-check whether the upward adjustment to the star