Academic Qualifications :
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- Bachelor of Laws (University of Hong Kong with Honours).
- Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration (Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London).
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Professional Qualifications :
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- Solicitor of Hong Kong (1979), England (1983 (non-practising)), Victoria, Australia (1984) and Singapore (1989).
- Notary Public.
- Chartered Arbitrator.
- CEDR Accredited
Mediator.
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators London
(CIArb) and Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators
(HKIArb).
- Oversea Member of the Institute of Trade Mark Agents (London).
- Listed on the Panel of Arbitrators and Panel of Adjudicators of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC).
- Council Member of the Hong Kong Society of Notaries.
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Government Appointments :
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- Justice of the Peace
- Member of the Panel of the Inland Revenue Board of Review 2004 to 2006.
- Member of the Administrative Appeals Board of the Hong Kong SAR (2000-2006).
- Deputy Chairman of Copyright Tribunal of the Hong Kong SAR (1999/2005).
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- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) appointed Neutral for Arbitration & Mediation and Domain Name Panelist.
- Senior Vice President (2006-2012) / Chairman of the Workshop Group (2003-2012) / Vice President (2003-2012) of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (ˇ°APAAˇ±) and President (1997-2003) of the APAA Hong Kong Group.
- Member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong.
- Speaker at international conferences including those of the APAA, Japanese Customs Intellectual Property Information Centre (CIPIC), Symposiums on Intellectual Property in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau.
- Author of various articles published in the APAA news, CIPIC journals, World Trade Mark Reporter and other reports.
- Fellow of The Hong Kong Institute of
Directors.
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Main Areas of Practice : |
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Intellectual properties (registration, licensing and enforcement of patent, design, copyright and trade mark) and injunction proceedings,
arbitration, banking, public and private corporate transactions, China projects, complex commercial litigation.
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