About Lawrence
Lawrence has accumulated extensive experience in all aspects of criminal law, corporate investigations, and market misconduct prosecutions during his practice at the Bar and decades of earlier service with the Hong Kong Police Force.
In attaining his LLM (HKU), he focused on key areas of interest including corporate law, human rights, international law, and the PRC criminal code.
He brings an understanding of a full range of criminal and regulatory offences to the cases he undertakes. He is frequently instructed to represent clients in disciplinary hearings brought by law enforcement agencies.
He also acts for clients in relation to investigation initiated by the Accounting and Financial Reporting Council, Equal Opportunity Commission, Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Pharmacy and Poisons Board, Physiotherapists Board and Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (“SFC”).
Lawrence is particularly familiar with large-scale commercial crime and money laundering investigations. And he regularly advises local listed companies and foreign entities on their internal investigations into corporate misconduct.
He frequently provides legal opinions on a range of matters including criminal, corporate, listing rules, common interest privilege and professional code of conduct.
On the civil side, he has developed an interest in the area of adverse possession, sexual harassment, employment, and town planning law in the course of his practice.
Clients in this field include a statutory body, a publicly listed company, a CPA Firm, a property developer, an investment house, a global health care company and an overseas trading company.
Selected Cases
- HKSAR v Nancy Ann Kissel (CACC 66/2012 and FAMC 63/2013) - Appearing as Junior Counsel for an appeal together with David Perry QC in the Court of Appeal and the Court of Final Appeal in relation to (also known as the 'milkshake murder')
- HKSAR v Siu Wai Cheong (HCCC 417/2017) - Appearing as Junior Counsel for a murder trial
- Hong Kong Police Force v A defaulter Disciplinary Report No. 7 of 2018 - An application for permanent stay of proceedings resulted in the prosecution withdrawing all the respective disciplinary charges related to the ‘affront’ limb:
Education
- LL.M., University of Hong Kong