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Ms Lilian Ip

Position

Lilian has a broad civil and commercial practice focusing on cross-border commercial disputes, company matters, land and property, trusts, probate, and mental health law. She frequently represents Mainland Chinese high-net-worth individuals and Mainland China state-owned enterprise companies in their commercial disputes triable in Hong Kong. Another highlight of her practice is her growing expertise in mental health cases resulting in the development of this area of law.

Lilian has substantial court experience and is regularly instructed to appear in trials before the High Court and District Court in commercial and land disputes between individuals and/or companies. She also has appeared in many contested interlocutory proceedings in her own right, and her experience spanned over injunctive relief, jurisdictional challenges, staying of proceedings in favour of arbitration, caveat proceedings, and more typical interlocutory applications including but not limited to summary judgment, security for costs, setting aside default judgment, striking out pleading, discovery, expert evidence, relief from sanction and others.

Lilian is also developing an arbitration practice focusing on international and commercial arbitration.

Outside of practice, Lilian contributes to legal publications for LexisNexis and is a guest lecturer delivering CPD courses for Legal Beagle.

Lilian has served as a Judicial Associate to judges of the Court of Appeal and Court of First Instance of the High Court since 2023.

Career

Reported Decisions

• Hua She Asset Management (Shanghai) Company Ltd v Gao Yan & Kei Kin Hung [2023] 4 HKLRD 575 (Commercial: Resisting the Plaintiff’s injunction application to prevent the creditor from presenting a bankruptcy petition against the debtor)

• Re Project Space Limited [2022] 3 HKC 607 (Company; Directors’ disputes, Section 42 Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622) applications)

• Re HCFA [2022] 4 HKLRD 783 (Mental Health; Part II Mental Health Ordinance (Cap. 136) application with the issue on locus standi of the applicant as a “far relative” of the MIP)

• Re LSW [2023] 3 HKLRD 1 (Mental Health; Part IVB Mental Health Ordinance (Cap. 136) application seeking leave to appeal against decision of Guardianship Board)

• 陳玉屏 v Liew Shuk Fui [2021] 3 HKLRD 290 (Civil Contempt; Issues of the Defendant’s mental state on whether she had the sufficient mens rea to answer her contempt)

 

Unreported Written Decisions

• Hong Kong Housing Society v Incorporated Owners of Heya Star [2023] HKCFI 2142; HCA 874/2019 (Land: Defending the IO for the alleged misallocation and misattribution of the management expenses)

• Re Alain Kunpa [2022] HKCA 834; CACV 569/2020 (Bankruptcy; Appeal against the bankruptcy order; adducing further evidence on appeal under Ladd v Marshall) (with Cyndi Ho)

• Cheung Kam Biu & Ors 對 何華蘭 & Anor (Land; Trespasser claiming adverse possession in the entrance staircases of a building) [2020] HKDC 649; DCCJ 5350/ 2016 (on trial); [2020] HKDC 948 (resisting leave to appeal before trial judge); [2021] HKCA 132 (resisting leave to appeal in Court of Appeal) (Chinese Judgment)

• Washing Bo Laundry Limited v Ng Kwok Wai & Ho Kit Ching [2023] HKDC 1421; DCCJ 6892/2020 (Commercial: Disputes arising from and out of the breach of franchise agreement; penalty clauses)

• Chong Pui Cheong v Chong Pui Kwong as Administrator of the estate of Chang In, the deceased, [2022] HKCFI 3110; HCA 240/2013 (Land: Beneficial ownership of a family property between siblings)

• Chung Yan Wing v Ko Hoi Si [2022] HKDC 1386 (on trial); [2023] HKDC 643 (on wasted costs); DCCJ 2922/2020 (Land: Beneficial ownership of a family property between mother and daughter)

• Chow Lily & Ors v Hau Suk Kiu Shirley [2020] HKDC 896; DCCJ 1732/2013 (Land; Succession of legal and/or beneficial interest in land; competition of relativity of titles in land)

• Wong Lui v A Xiabuzha & Anor [2023] HKCFI 1003; HCAP 18/2021 (Probate; Administrator pendente lite application) (with Eric Leung)

• Cheng Shuk Ying v Promma Dutsanee & ors, [2022] HKDC 164; DCCJ 1347/2019 (Commercial; Cyber fraud case representing the claimant in recovering fraud money)

• Evergrand Energy (HK) Limited v Hua Da Import and Export Company Limited & Ors [2021] HKDC 261; DCMP 2885/2020 (Commercial; Email fraud case representing the claimant in recovery of funds)

• Herman H.M Hui & Co. v Ho Shun Miu [2023] HKDC 60; DCCJ 5144/2018 (Professional Negligence; Defending outstanding service bill for lay client sued by solicitors’ firm)

• Hui Heon Ming Herman v IO of Ho On Mansion [2022] HKLdT 70; LDBM 169/2020 (Costs; Issue on costs when the claim had become academic)

• Smart-Trans Logistics Limited v Alieu Tunkara Corporation General Supplies Ltd [2023] HKDC 265; DCCJ 3920/2019 (Civil Procedure; Opposing to the Defendant’s last minute VCF application)

• 區 對 李 [2022] HKFC 219 (Family; Ancillary Relief; disputes of a matrimonial property 15 years after the divorce) (Chinese Judgment)

• 羅 對 陸 [2021] HKFC 190 (Family; Ancillary relief; inherited property) (with Charlotte Ma) (Chinese Judgment)

Other Cases

• For a full list of cases in which Lilian has appeared as Counsel please visit the Hong Kong Judiciary Website at https://legalref.judiciary.hk/lrs/common/ju/judgment.jsp using the Advanced Search function by searching the exact phrase of “Lilian Ip” and “葉煦欣”.

Publications

• The Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong: Mental Health (Vol.40) (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2024 reissue) (forthcoming)

• Mental Health Ordinance (Cap. 136) of The Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths) (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2024 reissue) (forthcoming)

• Mental Health Ordinance (Cap. 136) of The Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths) (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2021 reissue)

• Sale of Goods Ordinance (Cap. 26) of The Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths) (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2022 reissue)

• ‘Discrimination’ in Lexis Practical Guidance (Hong Kong) in Dispute Resolution (Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths 2022)

• ‘Civil Fraud’ in Lexis Practical Guidance (Hong Kong) in Dispute Resolution (Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths 2021)

• ‘Confidentiality’ in Lexis Practical Guidance (Hong Kong) in Data Protection (Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths 2021)

• ‘Dismissals’ in Lexis Practical Guidance (Hong Kong) in Employment Law (Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths 2020)

Memberships

2023-2026 Judicial Associate (General), High Court

Education

2017 PCLL, University of Hong Kong

2016 MA (Law), University of Bristol, United Kingdom

2014 BSc, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

 

Professional Qualifications

2022 Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

2018 Barrister, Hong Kong