Hectar Pun SC

Career

Hectar was called to the Bar in 1995 and appointed Senior Counsel in 2015.

Hectar’s practice spans many areas including constitutional and administrative law, human rights law, immigration law, criminal law, land law, company law and commercial law. He appears regularly on behalf of applicants in major judicial review proceedings.

Hectar has acted for the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong, legislative councillors, district councillors, demonstrators, police officers, prisoners, refugees and asylum seekers, tenants of public housing estates, homosexuals, transsexuals, the disabled and the underprivileged, etc.

Hectar has served on the Bar Council of the Hong Kong Bar Association as well as a number of its subcommittees. He was the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Civic Education and the Vice Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs & Human Rights from 2016 to 2018. He also regularly teaches constitutional law, administrative law and human rights law at law schools in Hong Kong. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the City University of Hong Kong and an Adjunct Professor of Law at The University of Hong Kong.

Hectar was educated at the City University of Hong Kong and was the 7th President of its Students’ Union. In 1996, Hectar went on to complete an LL.M at King’s College London on the British Chevening Postgraduate Scholarship. He also developed an interest in Chinese law and obtained an LL.B from Peking University in 1998. In 2015, he received the 5th Distinguished Alumni Award from the City University of Hong Kong.

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Practice Areas

Administrative and Public Law

Arbitration

Commercial Law

Company and Insolvency

Competition Law

Criminal Law

Employment

Land and Property Law

Regulatory and Disciplinary