Eva joined Des Voeux Chambers as a tenant in 2014. She has developed a broad civil practice, with experiences in commercial, company, tax, trusts, land, matrimonial, intellectual property and public law matters. Prior to obtaining her degree in Jurisprudence from Oxford University in 2012, Eva graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree majoring in Economics, with First Class Honours.
Benefiting from her academic background in business and financial field, Eva gained experiences in handling tax cases throughout her practice and is developing a specialty in this area of law. She has appeared before the Board of Review, and has frequently provided tax advices to clients for matters concerning both internal tax arrangement and external communication with the Revenue. She also acts as tax expert for companies intending to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Eva has handled a wide range of company and commercial cases. For instance, she has successfully, and unprecedentedly, obtained a winding up order against a solvent offshore company listed in Hong Kong on just and equitable grounds. She has also represented the Official Receivers in an application for disqualification order against a director.
She frequently handled commercial injunctions and assets recovery matters such as Mareva injunctions, proprietary injunctions, Bankers Trust orders and Chabra injunctions against third parties. She was involved in a landmark case in Chabra injunctions and has been successful in all related proceedings at the Court of First Instance and Court of Appeal levels. In addition, Eva has dealt with multiple committal proceedings against defendants who have breached injunction orders and was successful in all of those proceedings.
Eva regularly appears in arbitration proceedings, including an international arbitration between a world-renowned multinational brand and its PRC distributor, and an international arbitration on a USD 500m claim concerning redemption of bonds and share charges. Eva has also successfully obtained anti-suit injunction for the discontinuation of civil proceedings in the PRC initiated in breach of an arbitration agreement. She was also involved in a successful application to set aside an award on the basis of lack of jurisdiction.
Apart from representing private clients, Eva has been instructed by public bodies such as the Housing Authority, the Private Columbaria Licensing Board, Torture Claims Appeal Board and Non-refoulment Claims Petition Office.
Prior to her legal practice in Hong Kong, Eva has assisted Mr. David Perry Q.C. in two cases in the United Kingdom Supreme Court, namely R v Varma [2012] UKSC 44 (concerning confiscation orders) and R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice [2014] UKSC 38 (concerning assisted suicide and euthanasia). She also served as Judge’s Marshall in the Court of Final Appeal (with the Hon. Ma CJ, the former Chief Justice) and the Court of Appeal (with the Hon. Lam V-P, as Lam PJ then was), and the Divisional Court of England and Wales (Royal Courts of Justice) in London (with the Hon Royce J).
Eva sits as Deputy Temporary Registrar (Master) at the District Court and Deputy Adjudicator at the Small Claims Tribunal. She is also a Contributing Annotator of The Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong: Estate Duty Ordinance (Cap 111).
English, Cantonese, Putonghua
B.B.A., The Chinese University of Hong Kong (First Class Honours)
B.A. in Jurisprudence, Oxford University [2012]
PCLL, University of Hong Kong [2013]