About Teresa
Teresa was admitted to the Bar in 2018. She leads a general practice. She has appeared either as a sole advocate or a led junior counsel in the Court of Final Appeal, Court of Appeal, High Court, District Court and the Magistrates’ Courts.
Teresa’s criminal practice ranges from legal visits, plea bargains, bail applications and mitigations to trials and appeals. She has represented clients in cases of, inter alia, criminal damage, drug offences, road traffic offences, offences of dishonesty (including conspiracy to defraud), sexual offences and manslaughter.
For civil matters, Teresa’s breadth of experience covers land, commercial and contract, company, coroner’s court hearings, insolvency, bankruptcy, tort, labour, trusts and probate. She has worked on interlocutory applications involving, inter alia, summary judgment, default judgment, striking-out, injunctions and jurisdictional disputes. She regularly provides advice on personal injury cases and has been instructed to advise on regulatory compliance of companies in Hong Kong.
Appointment
- Counsel on Legal Aid Panel
Selected Cases
Manslaughter; Mentally Incapacitated Defendant
- HKSAR v Shek Ka Chun [2019] HKCFI 1323; [2019] HKCFI 1993
Title; Land Registration Ordinance (Cap. 128)
- Winland Finance Limited v Gain Hero Finance Limited [2021] HKCA 576; [2022] HKCFA 3
Adverse Possession
- Yeung Wai Tong v Srikornvit Pranee & ors [2022] HKCFI 606
Trusts in Company Shares; Conflict of Laws
- Wang Rongan v Silver International Investment Limited & ors [2022] HKCFI 2586
Trusts in Real Property
- Luk Wing Kwan v The Personal Representative of the Estate of Poon Siu Mei, deceased & anor [2021] HKDC 1399
Defamation
- Wong Shing v Cheung Hing [2021] HKDC 1438
Video-link Evidence
- Wang Rongan v Silver International Investment Limited & ors [2021] HKCFI 3198
Education
- P.C.LL., Chinese University of Hong Kong
- LL.B., Chinese University of Hong Kong