Howse Williams

Medico-legal

Katy qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales in 2011 and was admitted as a Hong Kong Solicitor in 2015. Katy has broad experience in clinical negligence and healthcare law, advising clients across both contentious and non-contentious matters.

Katy’s practice focuses on advising healthcare professionals, clinics, private hospitals and medical indemnity providers on a wide range of medico-legal issues. These include high value clinical negligence claims, complaints to regulatory bodies, Coroner's inquests, disciplinary proceedings before the Medical Council and Education and Accreditation Committee, Department of Health investigations, investigations by the Committee on Complaints against Private Healthcare Facilities, Judicial Reviews and criminal investigations.

In addition to contentious matters, Katy provides legal advice on a wide range of non-contentious issues including confidentiality, informed consent compliance with healthcare specific legislation such as the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, the Human Reproductive Technology Ordinance, Private Healthcare Facilities Ordinance and Prevention of Bribery Ordinance. She also advises on compliance with professional codes of conduct on issues such as practice promotion and financial arrangements in the medical setting.

2014  Howse Williams

2010  Glassbrooks Solicitors (Lancashire, England)

English, Cantonese, Mandarin

Member, Law Society of Hong Kong

2007  Legal Practice Course, University of Central Lancashire (Lancashire, England)

2003  LLB (Hons), University of Manchester, (Manchester, England)