Robin Egerton,Kay Chan

Monday 16 January 2012

This talk will cover the process of Collaborative Law, how it works in practise and how barristers can participate.

This talk will be in two parts. In the first part, the speakers will go through the background development of Family Law in Hong Kong and current issues in Family Law.

The second part of the talk will focus on the area of Collaborative Law, how it works in practice and how members of the Bar can participate in its process and development.

Collaborative Law is a method of Dispute Resolution originating from the United States of America which is now well established in the United Kingdom and Europe.

This method was originally designed to resolve highly conflicting family disputes but is now recognised to have potential application to many other disputes.

The Hong Kong Collaborative Practice Group (HKCPG) was established in 2010. The second training course took place earlier this year where a number of members of the Bar took part in the training and now playing important role in the development of this area of law in Hong Kong.

The Bar Council and the Director of Advanced Legal Education would like to thank all those who have contributed their time and expertise so generously to the Advanced Legal Education Programme during 2011.

Particular thanks are due to those visiting Queen’s Counsel who gave up time from a very busy schedule to talk to members of the Hong Kong Bar Association; and to Ms. Grace Wong, the Administrator of the Duty Lawyer Service, for kindly organising numerous Duty Lawyer Orientation Visits for pupils, and to all the Duty Lawyer Liaison Officers who assisted with the orientation visits.

Our gratitude also goes to those Judges, members of the Bar and solicitors who have kindly given up their evenings or Saturdays to assist in the Civil Justice Reform Seminar.

There is a long and illustrious list of those who have so generously helped out either as speakers, group leaders, trainers or in some other capacity (those who have helped out on more than one occasion are denoted by a star *).They are:

Members of the Judiciary

HIGH COURT
The Hon. Mr. Justice Hartmann JA
The Hon. Mdm. Justice Chu JA
The Hon. Mr. Justice Saunders
The Hon. Mr. Justice Bharwaney
Dep. High Court Judge Carlson *
Master Marlene Ng

DISTRICT COURT
HH Judge Poon, Acting Chief District Judge
HH Judge Browne *

MAGISTRATES
Mr Gary Lam *

Visiting Queen’s Counsel/Counsel

Lord Lester of Herne Hill Q.C, E&W
Lord Pannick Q.C., E&W
Richard Gordon Q.C., E&W
Edward Fitzgerald, C.B.E., Q.C., E&W
Martin Pointer Q.C., E&W
Nicholas Green Q.C., E&W

Timothy Brenton Q.C., E&W
Collingwood Thompson Q.C., E&W
John Katz Q.C., New Zealand
Victor Joffe Q.C., E&W
Monica Carss-Frisk Q.C., E&W
David Perry Q.C, E&W

Others

Frank Poon, Solicitor-General, Department of Justice
Peter Wong, Deputy Solicitor-General, Department of Justice
David Leung, Sr. Asst. Director of Public Prosecutions, Department of Justice *
Martin Hui, Sr. Asst. Director of Public Prosecutions, Department of Justice
Lee Tin Yan, Senior Government Counsel, Department of Justice
Grace Wong, Administrator, Duty Lawyer Service
Ian Candy, School of Law, the City University of Hong Kong
Dr. Sheilah Hamilton

Christopher To, Executive Director, Construction Industry Council
Chiann Bao, Secretary-General, HKIAC
Cheng Yee Khong, ICC Int’l Court of Arbitration Asia Office
Ruth Cowley, Partner, Norton Rose
Susan Munro, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLP
James Kwan, Partner, Simmons & Simmons
William Leung, Partner, William K.W. Leung & Co.
David Sandborg, FHKI Arb and FCI Arb
Dr. Jian Chen, Director of Registration, CIETAC
Mark Reeves, Managing Partner, Munros
Steven Dewhurst, Partner, Stephenson Harwood
Martin Giggins, Former Financial Lines Broker, Cooper Gay

Members of the Hong Kong Bar Association

Clive Grossman S.C.
Michael Blanchflower S.C. *
Horace Wong S.C.
Peter Ng S.C.
Alexander King S.C.
Russell Coleman S.C. *
Kumar Ramanathan S.C.
Keith Yeung S.C.
Selwyn Yu S.C. *
Graham Harris S.C.
Linda Chan S.C.
Corinne Remedios
Leo Remedios
Nigel Kat *
Lisa Remedios *
Juliana Chow *
Ashok Sakhrani
Bernard Chung *
Andrew Raffell
Liza Jane Cruden *
Keith Oderberg *
Raymond Leung
P.Y. Lo
Richard Khaw *
Frederick Chan *
Giles Surman *
Joseph Vaughan
Kent Yee
Kamlesh Sadhwani
Gary Soo

Yvonne Cheng
Jerry Ng
Michael Yin
Bruce Tse *
David Boyton *
Law Man Chung
Martyn Richmond
Jonathan Wong *
Colin Wong *
Johnny Ma
Audrey Campbell-Moffat *
Jose Antonio-Maurellet
Edwin Choy
Bernard Man
Roxanne Ismail *
Jonathan Chang
Eugene Yim
Angela Gwilt *
Helen Au *
Edward Ng *
Jonathan Ah-weng *
Lee Shu Wun *
Martin Wong *
Nisha Mohamed *
Robin Egerton *
Sezen Chong
Benson Tsoi
Kay Chan *
Kim Rooney