Our litigation team comprising Peter Sit (senior partner), Alex Chan (partner), Rocky Wong (senior associate), Alan Wong (associate) and three trainee solicitors, Josephine Tang, Regina Ng and Christina Tsang acts for one of the five defendants in what is reputed as the biggest corruption case in the history of Hong Kong. The first defendant in the case is Mr Rafael Hui (not our client), the former Chief Secretary of Hong Kong from 30 June 2005 to 30 June 2007. Hearing started in the High Court of Hong Kong on 8 May 2014. The first two weeks had been taken up by pretrial applications. On 26 May, a jury was empanelled, only to be discharged on 28 May. A new jury panel of nine is expected to be chosen on 4 June 2014.