Professional Qualifications

LL.B., University of Hong Kong (2015)
P.C.LL, University of Hong Kong (2016)
Year of Call: 2017 (Hong Kong)

Practice Profile

Joseph is developing a broad civil practice spanning personal injuries and insurance disputes, property disputes, and commercial litigation.

Personal Injuries and Insurance Disputes

Joseph has extensive experience across a wide spectrum of claims, including catastrophic injuries, fatal accidents, workplace injuries, industrial accidents, and road traffic accidents. Joseph has a good understanding of complex quantum assessments, including in high-value catastrophic cases involving amputations, paraplegia, and severe permanent disabilities. Joseph routinely receives instructions by leading insurers to advise on coverage disputes and to handle indemnity recoveries. He is also on the legal aid panel for personal injury cases.

Property Dispute & Conveyancing

Joseph represents and advises incorporated owners, landlords, tenants, vendors, and purchasers. Joseph has experience in water seepage litigation, both acting as sole or junior counsel, in court proceedings and arbitrations, concerning industrial and residential buildings.

Trusts & Commercial Disputes

Joseph also has experience in handling high-value commercial and equity disputes, involving claims of constructive/resulting trusts, proprietary estoppel, moneylenders.

Selected Cases

• Recovery of excess amount paid by insurer against the insured: Cai Mingyou v. Lau Kin Pang [2026] HKDC 1081
• Established a counterclaim for beneficial interest in a property on ground of proprietary estoppel: Lau Chung v Hui Keng Yee [2025] HKCFI 359 (as a led junior) and obtaining security for costs of appeal [2026] HKCA 482
• Securing settlement for a legally aided client hit by a toppled davit post in an industrial accident, causing fractures in ribs, scapula and multiple levels of spine (DCPI 2096/2023)
• Upon instructions from insurer, successfully resisted an application for relief from sanction, and the plaintiff remained debarred from claiming income-related heads of damages (DCPI 1530/2023)
• Trial of a claim arising from a road traffic accident: Lee Hing Kau Heaven v Trade Travel (Hong Kong) Ltd [2024] HKDC 2043 (as a led junior)
• Acting for a Hong Kong listed company in seeking extension of time to hold AGM (2022)
• Acting for an investor in a claim for money paid under a convertible note term sheet on ground of unjust enrichment and total failure of consideration, resulting in a successful settlement (2021)
• Trial of a claim in excess of HK$50 million in a catastrophic accident on board a vessel that rendered the plaintiff paraplegic: 陳有成 對 盈豐三(香港)有限公司 [2021] HKCFI 2898 (as a led junior)
• Trial of an employees’ compensation claim: Lam Ho Lun v 吳耀文 [2021] HKDC 258 (as a led junior)
• Trial of a claim arising from a slip-and-fall accident in a shopping mall: 徐小芳 對 Megabox Development Co Ltd [2018] HKCFI 1905 (as a led junior) and obtaining security for costs of appeal [2019] HKCA 252
• Trial of a claim arising from a construction site accident: Ranjit Singh v U-Win Construction & Engineering Co Ltd [2018] HKCFI 149 (as a led junior)

 
Joseph is fluent in Cantonese, English and Putonghua