Career
Teresa received her legal education from the University of Hong Kong and graduated with a First Class Honours in LLB and completed her PCLL with distinctions in subjects. She also obtained the post-graduate BCL degree from Oxford University where she was awarded prizes before she was called to the Bar in 2000. She subsequently joined Des Voeux Chambers a year later.
Teresa has a broad civil practice; she practices in all areas of General Civil, and mainly in Arbitration, Building Management, Commercial, Land, Landlord and Tenant, Mental Health, Probate and Administration, Public Law and Trust matters etc. She frequently advises and appears in Court on different levels for the Government, developers, landlords and tenants, companies across different sectors and jurisdictions and professional trustees, committees and PRs in contentious and non-contentious settings.
Apart from acting as counsel in arbitrations and also court applications in support of arbitration proceedings and involving challenges to and enforcement of arbitral awards etc., Teresa has recently developed a growing practice sitting as an arbitrator. In addition to acting as counsel, Teresa has been engaged to sit as an arbitrator in commercial cases and is on the List of Arbitrators of HKIAC and the Panel of Arbitrators of Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA) (also known as South China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Greater Bay Area International Arbitration Centre or Shenzhen Arbitration Commission). Teresa is also an Associate Member of Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (HKIArb).
Teresa has also been invited to contribute to and edit leading texts and annotated ordinances widely referred and cited by legal practitioners.
For more information, please refer to https://www.dvc.hk/members/teresa-wu
