PROFILE/PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Matrimonial: Sally has built a comprehensive practice in all manner of contested financial and child-related matters, including but not limited to (1) ancillary relief and preliminary issues, (2) financial dispute resolution, (3) maintenance pending suit and litigation funding, (4) joinders and third-party interests, (5) custody, care and control and access, (6) relocation, (7) the Guardianship of Minors Ordinance, (8) children dispute resolution, (9) parental declarations, (10) the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Ordinance, (11) urgent ex-parte and inter-partes applications (including but not limited to section 17 of the Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Ordinance, the Domestic and Cohabitation Relationships Violence Ordinance and anti-suit injunctions), (12) jurisdictional and forum non convenience challenges, (13) variation of orders, (14) specific discovery, and (15) enforcement (including but not limited to judgment summons, garnishee orders, charging orders and attachment of income orders).

 

Employees’ Compensation, Personal Injuries, Medical Negligence and Insurance Cases: Sally acts for both plaintiffs and defendants. She has broad experience in fatal and non-fatal cases (including those involving injuries of the maximum severity) in employees’ compensation and personal injuries claims, medical negligence claims against the Hospital Authority and insurance cases. She has developed extensive experience in appeals, trials and court hearings (including but not limited to checklist review hearings, specific discovery, Order 80 summons and striking out insurance claims), rendering written advice, and drafting documents (including but not limited to pleadings and witness statements).

 

General Civil Practice: Sally has extensive experience in various civil matters, including but not limited to adverse possession, bankruptcy, building management, commercial, company, compulsory sale, contract, employment, judicial review, probate, tort, trust and winding up. She has broad experience regarding all manner of contested civil matters and has appeared in the Court of Appeal, Court of First Instance, District Court, and Lands Tribunal, including but not limited to (1) 3-minute hearings, (2) call-over hearings, (3) substantive hearings (including but not limited to application for consolidation, default judgment, discharge and variation of injunction, expert opinion, relief from sanction, security for costs, setting aside default judgment, striking out, summary judgment, interim payment and variation of costs order), (4) trials, and (5) appeals.

 

Criminal: Sally has maintained a criminal practice, and has handled cases in the High Court, District Court and Magistrates’ Courts.

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SELECTED CASES ​

Matrimonial:

• SKA v TI [2023] HKFC 176 (relocation trial, as sole counsel for the petitioner)

• 鄧 對 蘇  [2023] HKFC 118 (care and control and relocation trial, as sole counsel for the respondent)

• LKY v OCF  [2022] HKFC 274 (leave to appeal against a maintenance pending suit order, as sole counsel for the respondent)

• 樊 對 陳 [2021] HKFC 116 (ancillary relief trial, as sole counsel for the respondent)​

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Employees’ Compensation, Personal Injuries, Medical Negligence and Insurance Cases:

• Hung Shing Keung 對 梁潤生 t/a 興旺搬屋公司 [2024] HKCA 1048 (leave to appeal to the CFA on employees’ compensation claim, as sole counsel for the plaintiff)

• Asia Shahid t/a International Business Point (Hong Kong) v China Ping an Insurance (Hong Kong) Co Ltd [2023] HKCFI 1296 (appeal against an order striking out the plaintiff’s insurance claim on ground of time limitation, as sole counsel for the defendant)

• Yuen Chiu Fuk 對 Wong Ming [2022] HKDC 167 (trial for personal injuries claim, as sole counsel for the plaintiff)

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General Civil Practice:

• Probate:-

  • Tso Tak Lee v Tso Chui Yan Administratrix of the Estate of Kam Yuk Fung, Deceased and Another [2025] 1 HKLRD 953, [2024] HKCFI 1795 (trial for propounding a will, with Ms. Annie Lai for the plaintiff)

  • Leung Yun Siu (梁潤笑), The Person Appointed To Represent the Estate of Fong Yin Ting (方燕婷), Deceased v Chow Wai Hung (周偉雄), The Person Appointed To Represent the Estate of Chow Wai Fai (周偉輝), Deceased [2020] HKCFI 2634 (application to preclude a husband murdering his wife from acquiring any interest in his wife’s estate under the forfeiture rule, as sole counsel for the plaintiff)

• Bankruptcy and winding-up:-

  • Re Imperial Pacific International Holdings Ltd [2024] HKCFI 1102 (winding up order against a listed company, as sole counsel for the petitioner)

  • Yan Yuen Ching and Another v Yan Tsz Kin & Others [2023] HKCFI 1986 (trial for a declaratory relief that items in a safe deposit box held in the joint names of a bankrupt and his sister belong to his sister absolutely, as sole counsel for the trustees-in-bankruptcy)

  • Re 麒麟集團控股有限公司 (Kirin Group Holdings Limited) HCCW 229/2021 (winding up order against a listed company, as sole counsel for the petitioner)

  • Fung Kwong Chuen v Wong Ka Sek and Wong Ka Lam King, The Joint and Several Trustees of the Property of Fung Kwong Chuen, A Bankrupt [2020] HKCFI 3009 (application to reverse the decision of the trustees-in-bankruptcy to freeze the bankrupt’s bank accounts, as sole counsel for the respondent)

• Disciplinary proceedings:-

  • The Law Society of Hong Kong v A Solicitor [2024] 1 HKLRD 1175 (appeal against sanctioned order, led by Ms. Anita Yip S.C. for the respondent)

• General civil:-

  • Happy Wise Investment Ltd v Cheng Siu Lung Edwin [2024] HKDC 921 (declaratory relief regarding ownership of handbags, as sole counsel for the plaintiff)

  • Suen Yat Hau v Suen Lap Shun; Wong Man Yu and Another v Xie Daphne Pei Wen [2023] HKCFI 2272 (trial concerning beneficial ownership of a landed property, with Mr Lewis Law for the Defendant in both actions)

  • Cheung Kwai Tai v Yeung Mei Fun [2022] HKDC 1199 (appeal against an order dismissing the defendant’s application for relief from sanction, as sole counsel for the plaintiff)

  • Keen Lloyd Holdings Ltd v Churk Yat Ming and Another [2020] HKCFI 2182 (variation of Mareva injunction order, as sole counsel for the 1st defendant)

  • Nichia Chemical Hong Kong, Limited v 深圳市聚作照明股份有限公司 and Another HCA 2057/2019 (application to set aside a regular default judgment with delay for over a year, and struck out the writ of summons, as sole counsel for the 2nd defendant)

• Judicial review:-

  • Agrade Holdings Ltd v Town Planning Board [2021] HKCFI 3559 (judicial review against Town Planning Board’s decision on a section 12A application, led by Mr Jenkin Suen SC for the applicant)

• Building management:-

  • 中紀投資有限公司 & Ors v 置佳物業服務有限公司 & Ors [2019] HKLdT 42 (application for costs against the 1st and 2nd plaintiffs, with Mr Lewis Law for the 2nd to 7th respondents)

 

Criminal:

• Trials in the District Court:-

  • 香港特別行政區 訴 陳國明及另一人 [2024] HKDC 1599 (trial for a charge of fraud, as sole counsel for the 2nd defendant)

  • 香港特別行政區 訴 吳友城 [2022] HKDC 792 (trial for a charge of dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm, as sole counsel for the defendant)

  • 香港特別行政區 訴 林炳基 [2020] HKDC 1042 (trial for a charge of dangerous driving causing death, with Mr. Charles J Chan and Mr. Felix Tang for the defendant)

• Magistracy appeals:-

  • 香港特別行政區 訴 林健儀 [2022] HKCFI 1719 (appeal against the conviction and sentence for 10 counts of fraud in an ICAC case, serving as the sole counsel for the appellant)

• Mitigations in the District Court:-

  • 香港特別行政區 訴 陳雪華 [2024] HKDC 1120 (dealing with property known or believed to represent proceeds of an indictable offence, as sole counsel for the defendant)

  • HKSAR v Lee Wing Hung Mickey [2023] HKDC 802 (dangerous driving causing death, as sole counsel for the defendant)

  • 香港特別行政區 訴 謝木榮 [2019] HKDC 110 (trafficking in a dangerous drug, as sole counsel for the defendant)