Martin Kok

Practice Areas

Commercial Law, Company Law, Family Law, Administrative & Public Law, Intellectual Property, Arbitration, Competition Law, Planning Law, Banking & Finance, Mediation

Career

Martin is a Rhodes Scholar, and is also a Bar Scholar and a Charles Ching Scholar. He obtained a Distinction in his postgraduate BCL degree at the University of Oxford, after he received First Class Honours in his LLB at the University of Hong Kong (ranking first in his year).

He joined Des Voeux Chambers in 2014, and his practice covers both advisory and advocacy work in civil, public, and matrimonial law. Apart from advocacy work at the various Court levels, Martin has handled a range of commercial arbitration cases, primarily before arbitral tribunals under HKIAC or UNCITRAL rules. He has also provided expert opinion on Hong Kong law before the Supreme People’s Court of the PRC.

Martin is a part-time Lecturer (Non-Clinical) at the Department of Law of the University of Hong Kong. His writings have appeared in publications ranging from the Restitution Law Review and the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice.

As from 2016, Martin has served on a number of Committees of the Hong Kong Bar Association, including the Committee on Companies Law, the Committee on Intellectual Property, the Committee on Competition Law, and the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and Human Rights.

Please read Martin's profile for more information at https://www.dvc.hk/members/martin-kok.

Professional Memberships

Committee Member, Committee on Intellectual Property, Hong Kong Bar Association (2018 – present)

Committee Member, Committee on Competition Law, Hong Kong Bar Association (2016 – present)

Committee Member, Committee on Companies Law, Hong Kong Bar Association (2016 – 2018)

Committee Member, Committee on Constitutional Affairs and Human Rights, Hong Kong Bar Association (2016 – 2018)

Lecturer (Non-Clinical), Department of Law, The University of Hong Kong (2015 – present)

Coach, Mooting and Dispute Resolution Programme, The University of Hong Kong (2014 – 2018)

Publications

Contributing Editor of Hong Kong Civil Procedure (the “White Book”) (Sweet & Maxwell)

“The Rule in Seldon v Davidson and the “Absence of Basis” Approach Revisited in Hong Kong” [2015] Restitution Law Review, Vol. 23, 128 (co-authored with Kelvin Kwok)

“The storm over a teacup: Hong Kong top court clarifies IP law” Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2016) 11 (6): 408-410 (co-authored with Stephanie Wong)

“Substance and Procedure in the Hong Kong Conflicts of Laws: Redrawing the Boundaries and Affording Substance to ‘Substance’” (2011) 5 HKJLS 109

“Insolvency Proceedings and Liquidation Works” (2016) ALE Seminar (with Linda Chan SC, Eva Sit, and Vincent Chen)

“Minority Shareholders’ Remedies” (2017) CPD Seminar

“Injunctions: Holding the Ring in Commercial Litigation” (2017) CPD Seminar

“Unlocking the Law of Restitution” (2017) CPD Seminar

“Litigating Trade Mark and Passing-Off Disputes” (2017) CPD Seminar

“Breach and Confidence and Misuse of Private Information in Hong Kong” (2016) CPD Seminar

“Demystifying the Law of Unjust Enrichment” (2014) CPD Seminar

“Ring-fencing Domestic Property: Is there a solution?” (2014) CPD Seminar

Languages Spoken

English

Cantonese

Expert in these Jurisdictions

2014 (Hong Kong)