Advocacy and the Litigation Process in Hong Kong – Fourth Edition (Student)
Authors: Michael Wilkinson, Vandana Rajwani, Raymond Pierce Contributors: Jacky Yeung, Arthur Lee, Leo Yau
Advocacy and the Litigation Process in Hong Kong - Fourth Edition is a one-stop-shop of practical tips, procedural law, and skills essential for students and litigation practitioners in Hong Kong.
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Advocacy and the Litigation Process in Hong Kong provides an introduction to the basic rules, conventions, and techniques that every advocate must know and apply when practicing in both the civil and criminal courts of Hong Kong. It takes the reader through the complex litigation process from first interview with the client, through the preparation of the case for trial, interlocutory applications, the trial itself, and finally appeals. It also highlights the skills required to be successful and emphasises the ethical duties of advocates. The content extends beyond relevant topics for front-line advocates, but encompasses much guidance on how to run a successful litigation practice.
The fourth edition incorporates many new developments in the rules and techniques of practice and introduces many new cases and practice directions relevant to practice, in particular the new Bar Code of Conduct and the Civil Justice Reform.
Jacky Yeung was called to the Bar of Hong Kong in 2016. He is the Lecturer in the Department of Law at the University of Hong Kong. Apart from the teaching responsibilities in the Law of Evidence and Criminal Procedure at the university, he is interested in promoting general legal education for the public.
Leo Yau was admitted to practice as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 2018. His practice area includes listed companies, dispute resolution and criminal litigation. He assists in numerous cases associated with public order offences. He advises investors in IPO projects and handles regulatory compliance issues. Beside sitting as an Independent Non-executive Director, he is interested in promoting good corporate governance of listed companies
Michael Wilkinson obtained his undergraduate and masters’ degrees from
Cambridge University. Having worked in academia in England and Africa he
came to Hong Kong in 1983 and served as Head of the Department of Professional
Legal Education at The University of Hong Kong for 13 years and Chairman
of the Board of the Law Faculty for 8 years. He was a member of the Chief
Justice’s Working Party on Civil Justice Reform and a member of the Law Reform
Commission. When he reached the ripe old age of 70, he technically ‘retired’ but
was appointed Adjunct Professor and continues to teach his full teaching load.
He has also served the University as its Public Orator for the last seven years, a
position that he continues to hold.
He has written many books including Hong Kong Conveyancing Law and
Practice and Cases and Materials (with Judith Sihombing) in 11 looseleaf
volumes, The Professional Conduct of Lawyers in Hong Kong (with Michael
Sandor) in five looseleaf volumes, Halsbury’s Civil Procedure (in four volumes),
Advocacy and the Litigation Process (three editions, the last with Vandana
Rajwani and Ray Pierce) and A Guide to Hong Kong Conveyancing (with Judith
Sihombing) which went into its seventh edition in 2014. He loves his work and
his students and refuses to stop.
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