Douglas specializes in criminal defence work. His motto is to endeavour to protect his clients from being convicted except by a competent tribunal and upon legal evidence sufficient to support a conviction for the offence with which his client is charged. Doug’s judicial experience, together with his calm character, has well equipped him to defend any difficult and technical cases.

The following areas form a large part of Doug’s practice:

Public Order and Criminal Justice Offences
Civil Liberties and Constitutional Law
Computer Crimes and Telecommunications
Explosives and Ammunition
Dangerous Goods
Perverting the course of public justice
Offences under the Prison Rules

Election Offences
Corrupt and Illegal Practices

Commercial Crimes
Money Laundering and Conspiracy to Defraud
Fraud, Credit Card Fraud and False Accounting

Technical Defence Work
Engineers Registration Board – Inquiry Committee
Medical Council – Disciplinary Inquiry
Pharmacy and Poisons Board – Disciplinary Inquiry
Police Disciplinary Hearing by the Appropriate Tribunal

General Criminal Work
Copyright Offences
Customs and Excise Offences
Immigration Offences
Triads Offences
Sexual Offences
Murder and Personal Violence
Driving Offences
Industrial Summonses
Dangerous Drugs
Preliminary Inquiries
Mental Health

Pro-bono Work
Douglas regularly undertakes pro-bono work under the Bar Free Legal Service Scheme by the Hong Kong Bar Association and the Clinical Legal Education Programme by HKU. He is most ready to offer pro-bono trial and appeal advocacy especially for the under-privileged and mental health patients.

Douglas fights every case with utmost professionalism. He defended many high profile cases involving many celebrities but Doug prefers not to label any single case as notable to avoid comparison. If you would like to observe Doug’s court advocacy, you are welcome to contact his secretary for seeing any of his open court cases.

His main hobbies are in the law of evidence and studying the inner game of things, for example, rapid mental interventions and neuro-linguistic programming.

Commercial Crimes

General Crimes

Judicial Review and Public Law Matters

Civil Liberties

Public Order Offences

Disciplinary Hearings

Jon obtained his first degree in Business Administration in the United States and his second degree in Law in Hong Kong. He commenced full practice in 2002.

Jon sat as deputy magistrate in the law courts of Hong Kong from 2012 to 2013. He is also a contributing editor of Archbold Hong Kong since 2010. He is an independent non-executive director of two listed companies in Hong Kong and also serves as legal advisor to the Hong Kong Police Disciplinary Board.

Jon enjoys both civil and criminal matters with a predominant interest in the latter. He has extensive experience in handling complex commercial cases on fraud, corruption, money laundering as well as offences and regulations concerning the Securities and Futures Commission. Has has also defended numerous high profile cases, some of which lasted for over 100 days in court.

In recent years, Jon has advised on numerous corporate compliance issues to over 40 corporations that were successfully listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Commercial Crimes

General Crimes

General Civil and Chancery Practice

Civil Liberties

Public Order Offences

Jason joined Chambers in 2018 after completion of pupillage with Mr. Walker Sham, Mr. Paul C. L. Leung, Mr. John Reading S.C., Mr. Randy Shek and Mr. M. K. Wong S.C.

Jason is developing a broad criminal and civil practice, with experience in areas such as homicide, sexual offences, white-collar crime, drug-related offences, immigration offences and traffic-related offences. On the civil side, Jason has experience in handling personal injuries and public law cases. He has appeared in different level of courts either as a led junior or the sole advocate or as counsel-on-fiat. He has also been instructed to attend legal visits at police stations and correctional services’ facilities.

Native Cantonese, fluent in English, Mandarin and Japanese

Commercial Crimes

General Crimes

General Civil and Chancery Practice

Judicial Review and Public Law Matters

Personal Injuries and Employees’ Compensation

Civil Liberties

Public Order Offences