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Barrie Barlow, SC

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Career

Barrie Barlow, S.C. has been practising as an advocate for over 40 years, accumulating along the way a wide breadth of experience in all the principal areas of litigation. He combines a strong interest in the law with a practical curiosity for the facts and a zeal for the contest. He enjoys trials but his experience includes areas as diverse as company, tax, public law, commercial fraud and other appeals in the Court of Final Appeal; banking, securities, insurance, corporate rescue, commercial fraud, estate and probate appeals in the Court of Appeal; corporate fraud trials for liquidators and others plus a diverse range of civil trials, public law trials, trials of real property proceedings, a wide range of company law and liquidation proceedings, innumerable tax appeals, plus matrimonial property proceedings in the Court of First Instance; and a range of arbitration and tribunal cases – which is reflected in over 180 reported cases. He also sits as an Arbitrator. He has given expert evidence on Hong Kong’s banking, company and taxation law in Courts in the U.S.A., U.K. and Australia. He is regularly called upon to speak on company law and taxation law.

Year of call

• 1975 (New Zealand)
• 1978 (Hong Kong AGC)
• 1984 (England and Wales)
• 1984 (Hong Kong)
• 2007 (Hong Kong Inner Bar)

Education

LLB Auckland University