On 22 March 2024, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in HKSAR v Lam Tin Wing [2024] HKCA 240 and quashed the conviction of a 22-year-old woman for arson and possession of petrol bombs with intention to destroy or damage property. Randy Shek and Matthew Suen represented the appellant both at trial and in […]

Silver Base (Holdings) Limited (“the Company”) having been wound up by the Court of First Instance on a debt of around HK$506 million ([2023] HKCFI 2916; see also our earlier case note), its 50% shareholder and director Liang Guoxing (“Mr Liang”) applied to stay the winding-up order. On 7 February 2024, the Court refused to […]

By a judgment dated 23 February 2024, the Court found the Plaintiff’s claim to be entirely incredible in light of the lack of contemporaneous records and her inconsistent accounts of how the alleged accident occurred, and dismissed her claim on liability: Yip Sze Lung v Fairwood Fast Food Limited [2024] HKDC 303. The judgment provides […]

In Remx Limited v LAE Technologies Hong Kong Limited & Ors (HCA 361/2021), the Plaintiff advanced a variety of causes of action including (1) unjust enrichment, (2) constructive / resulting trust, (3) Quistclose trust and (4) dishonest assistance against the 2nd Defendant.  By a decision dated 27 February 2024, the Court struck out the claims […]

On 6th February 2024, the Court of Appeal handed down judgement in HKSAR v. Lee Ming Ho, CACC 130/2019 in “an extremely serious example of the offence of trafficking in dangerous drugs involving over 34 kilogrammes of ‘Ice’ worth at the time more than HK$10.5 million, being brought into the jurisdiction from the Mainland by […]

Hectar Pun S.C. (leading Ferrida Chan) secured acquittal for the Defendant charged with three charges of agent accepting an advantage totalling around HK$380,000, contrary to section 9(1) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (Cap 201). The Defendant is a Senior District Director and a top insurance agent of a leading international insurance company. The Prosecution […]

On 1st February 2024, Magistrate Andrew Mok Tze-Chung exercised the Juvenile Court’s discretion under section 15(1)(a) of the Juvenile Offender’s Ordinance (Cap. 226) to make a Dismissal Order and Bind-over Order against a 13-year-old defendant who pleaded guilty to a charge of Indecent Assault.  The making of these Orders means that the child offender will […]

At the 6th hearing of the petition, presented by Top Shine Global Ltd. on 22 June 2022, Madam Justice Linda Chan on 29th January 2024 ordered the winding-up of China Evergrande Group (“Company“). The hearing of the petition had been adjourned on 5 previous occasions on the Company’s application on the grounds that it wished to […]

On 30th January 2024, Magistrate Phillip Chan Chee-fai acquitted the second defendant on one charge of False Imprisonment arising out of the Prince Edward Station Incident on 31st August 2019, a well-remembered and highly-publicised clash between protestors and the Hong Kong Police Force. The successful second defendant was represented by Randy Shek in HKSAR v […]

In NI v TCHK [2023] HKFC 184, the Family Court ordered the return of an 8-year-old boy to his Mother in Shenzhen, following his Father’s refusal to return the child after their holiday and kept the child in Hong Kong with him. The Mother was granted interim custody, care and control of the child. The […]