Experience 

• All aspects of insurance litigation, including policy interpretation and defence of claims involving Contractors' All Risks, Public Liability, Employees' Compensation, Professional Indemnity and other specialist insurance policies.

Notable Engagements 

• Acting for a UK insurer in the successful defence of a professional indemnity claim upon its Errors & Omissions Policy, against a major insurance broker
• Acting for Financial Institutions Professional Indemnity Insurers arising from claims relating to the sale of Lehman Brothers mini-bonds
• Successful defence of a number of personal injury claims, including Cheang Kam Ian v. Hong Kong Prime Printing Co. Ltd. (HCPI 143 or 1998) (decision of Suffiad J. on 13 January 2000) on the defence of ( novus actus interveniens )
• Strategising with and advising various Employees Compensation and Business Interruptions insurers on coverage and liability issues arising from the 2003 SARS outbreak
• Representing Hong Kong Towngas and its global insurer in the April 2006 Kowloon gas explosion which injured seven persons and killed two
• Representing Kowloon Motor Bus Co. (1933) Ltd. in a much-publicised bus accident in 2003, known as the Tuen Mun Highway disaster, resulting in numerous fatalities and personal injuries
• Conducted defence of claim against owner of the property in the notorious Tokwawan case where there was a collapse of a large canopy of the property resulting in multiple injuries to victims. Successfully negotiated settlement with one of the lowest apportionment of liability amongst 15 defendants and 11 third parties
• Representing a Lloyd's Syndicate (UK) with respect to defending a personal injury claim arising out of a gas explosion incident, resulting in a very favourable outcome for Lloyd's
• Negotiated and achieved a favourable settlement for an insurer on a multimillion-dollar claim by an employee who contracted a unique skin condition allegedly from exposure to welding light and fumes in his capacity as a welder
• Advising a number of insurers on the Aberdeen Albert House Cases and the implications on their home insurance policies
• Representing a global insurer with respect to defending a claim on its Group Accident Policy and successfully preventing a challenge to the Policy wording
• Acting for a number of Life Insurance companies in respect of policy coverage issues, with respect to statutory trusts related issues
• Represented Essar Insurance Services Ltd., the Claims Managers to the Solicitors' professional indemnity insurers, in numerous claims, including acting for two firms of solicitors who acted for Vendors in relation to the Laguna Verde project. The Plaintiffs' claims were ultimately stayed due to instigation of our security for costs interlocutory application

Employment 
Johnson Stokes & Master, 1993 to date

Education 

The University of Melbourne, LLB

Languages

• Written/Spoken: English
• Spoken: Cantonese

Admitted

• Hong Kong, 1992
• England & Wales, 1992
• Australia (Victoria), 1991