About Andrew
Andrew Raffell worked in industry before studying law at LSE. He was a Senior lecturer in law at the City University of Hong Kong and a professional consultant at Chinese University of Hong Kong until 2015. He taught Criminal Law and Procedure and Evidence on undergraduate, postgraduate and professional courses.
He has practised in HK since 1988. He specialises in criminal law and has appeared in many high profile and/or serious criminal cases over the past 34 years.
Appointment
- Member, Hong Kong Bar Association Criminal Law and Procedure Committee (CCrimLP)
Selected Cases
- Warwick Reid: successfully represented two men charged with assisting his escape from HK
- Aaron Nattrass: immigration lawyer charged with 27 counts of fraud against the HK, New Zealand and Taiwanese governments, acquitted
- "Hello Kitty" murder case: represented D3
- Numerous other drugs, money laundering, murder, perjury, perverting the course of justice and conspiracy cases
- Succeeded in two appeals against conviction in drugs cases in the Court of Appeal in 2022
Education
- LL.M. (Employment Law) (Distinction), University of Leicester: 1997
- Bar Vocational Course (2:1), Inns of Court School of Law: 1982
- LL.B. (2:1), London School of Economics and Political Science: 1980