We are pleased to announce that our members Lau Wan Ching and Ian Chu have passed the 3rd Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Grater Bay Area (“GBA”) Legal Professional Examination. The GBA Legal Professional Examination is a pilot measure that allows Hong Kong lawyers with 5 or more years of practice, after passing the examination and completing the training, to practise PRC law in civil and commercial legal matters in the 9 cities in the GBA.

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Au Lut Chi and Kyra P.S. Kung of Gilt Chambers have co-annotated the recently released Butterworths Hong Kong Employees’ Compensation Handbook – Seventh Edition and The Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong: Employees’ Compensation Ordinance (Cap. 282).

These two practitioner publications cover the latest development and case law on the Employees’ Compensation Ordinance (Cap. 282), including the Employees’ Compensation (Amendment) Ordinance 2021 which has come into effect since July 2, 2021.  The law is amended to cover situations where an employee is injured or dies as a consequence of an accident while commuting to or from work during periods of “extreme conditions” resulting from a super typhoon or other natural disaster of a substantial scale.

We express our thanks to LexisNexis Hong Kong for its invitation to annotate the said Ordinance.

Please refer to the following links for more details: –

Butterworths Hong Kong Employees’ Compensation Handbook – Seventh Edition

https://store.lexisnexis.com/en-hk/butterworths-hong-kong-employees-compensation-handbook-seventh-edition.html

Au Lut Chi

Called in 2013, LC has a civil practice with a focus on chancery, commercial and personal injuries matters.  He has extensive experience in employee’s compensation and personal injury proceedings for both the defendant insurance companies and the plaintiff victims.  Cases nature ranges from simple slip and fall case to victims in vegetative state.

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Kyra P.S. Kung

Kyra was called to the Bar in 2022.  She is developing a broad civil and criminal practice with emphasis on personal injuries, contentious probate, matrimonial and commercial matters.  Her recent experience on personal injuries was to advise a plaintiff in a fatal accident.

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Our Dr Christopher To shared his views and expertise on ADR trends and developments in Hong Kong in an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post. The article is published in physical newspapers on 29 May 2023 and online at the SCMP website.

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Congratulations to our member Ian Chu who has been appointed to the Torture Claims Appeal Board with effect from 30 June 2023 to 29 June 2025.

The Torture Claims Appeal Board is an independent statutory body to hear and determine appeals against decisions of immigration officers on torture claims.

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Au Lut Chi and Hannah Tang acted for the Defendant in Lau Wai Kwong v Lau Cheung Kam Ling Margaret née Cheung, Kam Ling Margaret [2023] HKCFI 1097 and successfully opposed a claim for rectification by mistake of a settlement entered in a big money case in the matrimonial proceedings.

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Griffith Cheng annotated the latest issue (2022) of the Defamation Ordinance (Cap. 21) in the Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong by LexisNexis, Butterworths. This edition replaces the 2017 Reissue.

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Gilt Chambers welcomes our new tenants Michelle Yau and Hannah Tang.

Michelle joined Chambers after completing her pupillage with Mr. John Marray, Mr. Jon Wong, Mr. Kenneth Lam and Ms. Emily Cheung. Prior to joining the Bar, Michelle has worked a few years in both local and International law firms as a paralegal. She has experience in intellectual property, matrimonial, IPO, personal injury, bankruptcy, construction and infrastructure matters. She is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Hannah obtained her LLB and PCLL from the University of Hong Kong. She joined Gilt Chambers in 2022. She had served marshalship to G Lam J (as the Hon Mr. Justice Lam JA then was) and will be serving marshalship to the Hon Mr. Justice Zervos JA at the early stage of her practice. Hannah had appeared as a sole advocate at the District Court and as a led junior during pupillage and limited practice. During her studies, she worked part-time at the HKU Clinical Legal Education Office and had experiences working with various silks, law firms, the Legal Aid Department and the Duty Lawyer Service. She also assisted in offering pro bono legal services in cases of diverse nature ranging from general civil to criminal appeal to the Court of Final Appeal. She is capable of providing written submissions and conducting hearings in both English and Chinese. She accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ work.

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Gilt Chambers is very delighted to welcome our newest tenants Natasha Yu and Kyra PS Kung.

Natasha joined Chambers after completing her pupillage with Mr. Jat Sew Tong S.C., Mr. Paul C. L. Leung, Ms. Ann Lui and Mr. Au Lut Chi. Before joining the bar, Natasha read law at the University of Warwick. She then pursued an LLM at the University of Hong Kong, specialising in Chinese Law of the PRC. Natasha is capable of undertaking written and advocacy work in both English and Chinese. She is developing a broad practice and accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ work.

Kyra joined Chambers after completing her pupillage with Mr. Paul C.L. Leung, Mr. Enzo W.H. Chow, Mr. Derek T.L. Hu, and Mr. Au Lut Chi. She is developing a broad civil and criminal practice with emphasis on contentious probate, matrimonial and commercial matters. She is fluent in Cantonese, English and Mandarin.

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