Chua Guan-Hock SC

Practice Areas

Administrative & Public Law, Arbitration, Banking & Finance, Civil Litigation, Commercial Law, Company Law, Insolvency, Labour Law, Mental Health, Planning Law, Professional Liability, Property Law, Tax Law, Trusts, Probate and Succession, Urgent Injunctions & Interlocutory Applications

Career

My practice involves advocacy and advisory work in three main areas: commercial litigation and abitration, company work, and tax and Chancery matters. I also give expert opinions from time to time on Hong Kong law for use in overseas courts and tribunals.

Over the past 30 years, my practice has included appearing in several heavy commercial and company matters, notably in the Court of Final Appeal in ADS v. Wheelock Marden & Others (2000) 3 HKCFAR 70, (2001) 2 BCLC 324, after one of Hong Kong’s longest civil trials lasting 14 months. Over the years, I have worked with many leading Silks from London and Hong Kong in a wide variety of cases including in my main practice areas above.

Professional Memberships

Justice of the Peace

Deputy Judge of Court of First Instance, December 2008 onwards and time to time

Chairman, Town Planning Appeal Board Panel (2017 to 2023)

Chairman, Barristers’ Disciplinary Tribunal

Chairman, Telecommunications (Competition Provisions) Appeal Board

Deputy Chairman, Administrative Appeals Board

Member, HKIAC’s List of Arbitrators

Member, Higher Rights Assessment Board (July 2016 to June 2022)

Bar Council Member (1999-2002), Hong Kong Bar Association

Governor of Marlborough College Malaysia, Iskandar, Malaysia (2012 to date)

Expert in these Jurisdictions

1987 (England and Wales), 1987 (Hong Kong), 1994 (Singapore), 2003 (Hong Kong Inner Bar)

Languages Spoken

English, Cantonese