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Keynote Lecture on Medical Negligence by Vinci Lam SC and Ching Him Ho Vinci Lam SC and Ching Him Ho were invited by the Hong Kong Medical Association (HKMA) to deliver a Keynote Lecture to medical practitioners on the topic “The Basics and the Updates on Medical Negligence Law in Hong Kong” at the HKMA’s annual Medico-legal conference on 6 July 2024. The Keynote Lecture outlined the latest development on the law of medical negligence and illustrated some recent cases in Hong Kong to the medical practitioners. Vinci and Him also shared their experience on handling medical negligence cases.

Plowman Chambers warmly congratulates the following members for being listed on the Doyles Guide 2024 under the following categories: - Leading Criminal Law Barristers Hong Kong, 2024: ·      Preeminent: Derek Chan SC ·      Recommended: Maggie Wong SC Leading Family & Divorce Law Barristers Hong Kong 2024, and Leading Family Law Mediators Hong Kong, 2024: ·      Giles Surman For more information please visit the Doyles Guide website here: https://lnkd.in/g7K7TgDg

Plowman Chambers welcome the joining of Ronny Leung. Ronny specialises in criminal practice at all levels of courts, with extensive experience in commercial crimes including: ICAC, CCB, & SFC matters, money laundering, corruption, fraud, false instrument, misconduct in public office and so on; and general crimes such as dangerous drug offence, sexual offence, dishonesty offence, violent crime, perverting course of justice, immigration offence, customs & excise offence, departmental summonses, general & serious traffic offences. For more information on Ronny's profile please click here: https://lnkd.in/g2aBeK7c

Plowman Chambers warmly congratulates Ching Him Ho who was awarded the Patrick Yu Memorial Scholarship 2024 by the Hong Kong Bar Association. For more information on Him’s profile, see here: https://lnkd.in/dVPrjhR7

Rachel Ronald (with Roland Lau) represented the Interested Party in Li Sang Edward v Disciplinary Board under the Land Survey Ordinance [2024] HKCA 197. It is an appeal from the decision and sanction order of the Disciplinary Board under the Land Survey Ordinance (Cap.473). The Appellant and the Interested Party appeared in person in the proceedings below, which arose out of a complaint by the Appellant against the Interested Party in respect of his professional conduct as a land surveyor. The Disciplinary Board, i.e. the Respondent, found one of the disciplinary charges established and ordered that the Interested Party be reprimanded and that the reprimand be recorded on the register of authorised land surveyors. On appeal, the Appellant seeks the removal of the Interested Party from the register. The Court of Appeal found that none of the grounds of appeal has been made out and dismissed the appeal with costs. View the full judgment here: https://lnkd.in/gXnNkSWn

Plowman Chambers extends its warm congratulations to Tony Ko for being listed by the Guangdong Lawyers Association as one of the 22 foreign-related leading talent. 155 others were listed as a foreign-related pioneer talent and 751 others were included as foreign-related rising talent. (See the official publication here: https://lnkd.in/gqd6h7WV) Tony passed the first ever Greater Bay Area Legal Professional Examination in 2021, and is a registered Greater Bay Area lawyer. Tony has a civil and commercial practice and has been continuously listed by the Legal 500 as a leading junior in Commercial Dispute Resolution. More information can be obtained from the Plowman Chambers website - https://lnkd.in/gafEiVMX.

Ferrida Chan, led by Hectar Pun SC represented the Defendant in the case of 香港特別行政區 訴 馬敬, who was 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, a Senior District Director and a top insurance agent of a leading international insurance company, was acquitted from all three charges. The Prosecution's case was that at the material time, the Defendant accepted advantages from her down-line insurance agents as an inducement to or reward for the Defendant in assisting them in securing customers to purchase insurance policies with the insurance company.    Nevertheless, the learned judge acquitted the Defendant of all the three charges on the ground that the charged act is not an act in relation to the principal’s affairs or business, in that her act and acceptance of advantage did not conflict with the insurance company’s interests.   The trial judge also held that the Defendant has successfully proved on a balance of probabilities the statutory defence that she had the principal’s permission under sections 9(4)-(5) of the Ordinance, and further held that the Defendant had lawful authority and reasonable excuse in accepting the advantages. View the Reasons for Judgment here: https://lnkd.in/gnZQ96ya

Plowman Chambers warmly congratulates our silks - Derek Chan SC, Maggie Wong SC and Tony Li SC for being ranked as "Band 1" Silks in the 'White Collar Crime: the Bar, Greater China Region' category.

Plowman Chambers is pleased to announce the joining of Kasper Fan and Sean O'Reilly, both of whom commenced practise at Chambers since 1 December 2023. Kasper is a Charles Ching Scholar of 2023. He undertook pupillage with Mr. Martin Hui SC, Mr. Derek Chan SC, Mr. Tony Li SC, Ms. Queenie Lau, and Mr. Ernest Ng, having graduated at CUHK with first class honours in LLB and a Master of Laws in International Law from St. John’s College, University of Cambridge. Whilst Kasper accepts instructions from all areas of Chambers’ work, he is particularly interested in criminal litigation and has experience in white collar crimes, drug related offences, sexual offences, traffic offences and dishonesty related offences, having worked on various Magistrates and District Court level trials, as well as Magistracy Appeals in the Court of First Instance. For more information on Kasper’s profile, see here: https://lnkd.in/g7vnHMpj Sean is a Bar Scholar of 2022. He joins Chambers upon completing pupillage with Mr. Anthony Chan (now Mr. Anthony Chan SC), Mr. Derek Chan SC, Mr. Tony Ko, Mr. Tim Parker, and Mr. Tony Li SC; having also graduated from CUHK with First Class Honours in LLB, Sean also holds a Master of Laws in Public International Law (Distinction) from the London School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford (Distinction) with a prize for Roman Law (Delict). Before commencement of practise, Sean served as a Judicial Assistant at the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal from 2021 to 2022. He is now developing a broad criminal and public law practice and has, since his short time in the Bar, appeared as sole advocate in the High Court and obtained an interlocutory injunction to restrain the commission of the torts of misuse of private information, defamation, and harassment. For more information on Sean’s profile, see here: https://lnkd.in/gGEeE9ty Both Kasper and Sean have been awarded several scholarships and prizes for their academic excellence and achievements. They are both fluent in Cantonese, English and Mandarin. We are keen to see their careers thrive in the coming future. 

Last chance to sign up for the evening talk to be delivered by Mr Tom Lowe KC of Wilberforce Chambers and our Tony Ko tomorrow night (on 30 November 2023) on the topic of "What no longer matters in light of the 'Family Mart/ Mozambique Cases'" at the HK International Arbitration Centre. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gtuGqvd3 For more information, please see Tony's post below and here: https://lnkd.in/eb2xDUtn