Our firm has extensive experience handling criminal proceedings and relevant litigations, including:
- advising on criminal law and procedures applicable to clients before and after being charged
- attending clients to take statement with the SFC, the Police, the ICAC, the Immigration Department and other law enforcement agencies
- entering into plea bargaining for clients before or after being charged
- application for bail for clients before trial or pending appeal
- conducting investigation and prepare evidence before trial
- defending clients in Magistrate Court, the Court of First Instance, the Court of Appeal and the Court of Final Appeal
- conducting appeals at all levels of courts
- conducting mitigation and submissions for reduction of sentence for clients
- Handling commercial crimes such as bribery and money laundering
Our firm also handled and defended our clients of charges involving serious crimes. We represented Ms. Ho Ling-yu in the Tsuen Wan ‘cement coffin’ murder trial. We have also represented defendants in the Northeastern New Territories case and the Civic Square case for trial, and to appeal against conviction and sentencing on their behalf. In addition, we have represented defendants in a series of rioting cases in relation to the Mongkok violent event.
We also advise clients on general crimes such as possession of drugs, drug trafficking, driving offences, burglary, theft and sexual assaults.
Selected cases
- 香港特別行政區 訴 葉廸舜及另八人 [2023] HKDC 695 Acquittal of riot charge
- 香港特別行政區 訴 蕭志成 [2023] HKCFI 913 Successful appeal against a conviction of assaulting a police officer in execution of duty and possessing offensive weapon with intent
- 香港特別行政區 訴 何梓洋 [2022] HKCFI 1546 Common assault case
- 香港特別行政區 訴 曾勁麟 [2021] HKDC 1104 Rioting case
- HKSAR v. Lo Kin Man (盧建民) [2021] HKCFA 37 Appeal case against conviction of riot
- A series of rioting and unlawful assembly cases related to the 2019 Anti-Extradition Movement
- 香港特別行政區 訴 麥卓賢 [2020] HKDC 1030 Fraud, from selling talk show tickets
- 香港特別行政區 訴 楊光智 [2021] HKDC 1060 Successful acquittal of riot and possessing radio apparatus without valid license, as Prosecution could not substantiate their claim of the only reasonable inference based on circumstantial evidence
- HKSAR v. Lee Kai Fat [2020] HKCFI 2854 Successful appeal against conviction of possession of offensive weapon
- 律政司司長 對 黃之鋒 [2018] HKCFA 4 Successful appeal against a conviction of participating in an unlawful assembly and incitement of participation in an unlawful assembly
- HKSAR v, Ho Ling-yu TWCC 745/2016 Bail application (the “Tsuen Wan ‘cement coffin’ murder”)
- Secretary for Justice v. Wong Ho Ming [2018] HKCFA 14 Bail application to the Court of Final Appeal (the “13+3” Northeastern New Territories case)
- Secretary for Justice v. Lau Kwok Leung & Others [2018] HKCFA 13 Bail application to the Court of Final Appeal (the “13+3” Northeastern New Territories case)
- Secretary for Justice v. Wong Chi Fung, Chow Yong Kang Alex and Law Kwun Chung [2018] HKCFA 4 Appeal against sentence to the Court of Final Appeal (the “Civic Square” case)
- HKSAR v. Chan Yiu Shing & Others [2018] HKCFI 321 Making explosives near the ATV premises
- A series of rioting cases in relation to the Mongkok violent event