Personal Injury and Employees’ Compensation
A personal injury occurs when a victim in an accident endures bodily injuries. Personal injuries refer not only to physical harm, but also psychiatric injuries. For instance, an individual might suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after a grievous experience of the accident.
Medical negligence
Medical negligence is professional negligence resulting from an act or omission on the part of a health care provider in which the care provided deviates from accepted standards of medical practice and causes injury or death to the patient. These cases may lead to claims for compensation due to medical negligence.
Commercial and Business-related disputes resolution
Our lawyers act on a wide range of commercial and business-related disputes, including:
- Arbitration
- Breach of contract and negligence
- Commercial conspiracy and fraud
- Debt recovery
- Defamation
- Injunction proceedings
- Shareholder disputes
- Sale of goods and services
- Trusts
Judicial Review
Judicial review is a procedure concerning the supervisory jurisdiction of the Court of First Instance of the High Court over administrative bodies and inferior courts. Administrative bodies refer to government departments and public bodies set up pursuant to certain ordinances.
Family Law
The breakdown of a relationship can be very stressful for everyone involved, especially for children. If you are separating from your partner, there are some important decisions to be made – it is these decisions our family lawyers have helped countless families with over the years.
Our team provide you expertise across a wide spectrum of family law matters including:
- Divorce & Separation
- Matters affecting children
- Financial matters
Mentally incapacitated person
To deal with persons who are mentally incapacitated, the Mental Health Ordinance (Cap. 136) is included as an indispensable part of the Hong Kong laws. According to the Ordinance, “mental incapacity” is defined as either a mental disorder or mental handicap.
Probate and Trust
Our probate and trust services include:
- Advice on family succession planning
- Setting up family trust
- Advice on and drafting of wills
- Setting up charitable organization and trust
- Application for probate and letters of administration
Commercial Contracts | Agreements
We provide legal advice to clients in various business sectors, both in the context of legal support on day to day operation and in terms of planning and implementation of custom-made business transactions.
Our team provides specialized, sophisticated and integrated legal services regarding the drafting, legal assessment, negotiation and monitoring of the implementation of all kinds of commercial transactions. We have extensive experience providing legal support to a wide range of customers, including many of large multinational companies, regarding cooperation agreement, set up and operation of sale and distribution networks, technology transfer agreements and all types of commercial contracts. Our dedicated and highly qualified team provides effective, integrated and high – quality legal services of considerable added value to our clients as a result of our deep knowledge, professionalism, business-oriented legal thinking and extensive expertise that has been evidenced also in complex transactions.
Criminal Defence
Our criminal defence team specializes in representing clients at every stage of the criminal justice process, ensuring that they are fully advised and that their rights are protected.
We have expertise in handling criminal matters, particularly money laundering offences and complex commercial crimes investigated by the Joint Financial Investigation Unit, the Police Commercial Crimes Bureau, the Independent Commission Against Corruption or the Securities and Futures Commission.
Our criminal defence services include:
- Advising at the investigation stage
- Attending legal visits / cautioned interviews
- Issuing applications for bind-over to the Department of Justice
- Solicitor-Advocate representation in the Magistrates’ and District Courts
- High Court bail application
- Trial preparation
- Instructing counsel for trial or mitigation
- Appeals
Arrested support
Emergency Hotline: 6433 2433
