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WRITINGS

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Books

​​Hong Kong Civil Procedure (Hong Kong: Thomson Reuters, 2023-) (as Contributing Editor)

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Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong on Evidence (vol 27, 2nd edn, Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths 2011) 

02.

Book chapters

‘Sanctioned Offers and Sanctioned Payments’ of ‘Settlement Module’ in Lexis Practical Guidance Hong Kong Dispute Resolution (Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths 2019)

 

‘Enforcing International Mediated Settlement Agreements’ in Ramaswamy M P and Ribeiro J (eds), Harmonising Trade Law to Enable Private Sector Regional Development (New Zealand: UNCITRAL Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific and New Zealand Association for Comparative Law, 2017) 81-95

 

‘UNCITRAL and International Commercial Mediation in China’ in Ramaswamy M P and Ribeiro J (eds), Trade Development through Harmonisation of Commercial Law (New Zealand: UNCITRAL Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific and New Zealand Association for Comparative Law, 2015) 193-216

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‘Without Prejudice Communications’ of ‘Settlement Module’ in Lexis Practical Guidance Hong Kong Dispute Resolution (Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths 2014)

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‘Alternative Dispute Resolution Module’ in Lexis Practical Guidance Hong Kong Dispute Resolution (Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths 2014)

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'Mediation in Hong Kong SAR’ in Wang G and Yang F (eds), Mediation in Asia-Pacific: A Practical Guide to Mediation and Its Impact on Legal Systems (Hong Kong: Wolters Kluwer (Law & Business) 2013) 225-242 (with S Ali)

03.

Journal articles

'Preventing Challenges: The Impartiality and Independence of Arbitrators and Mediators in Hong Kong', Asian Dispute Review (January 2024) (with S Ali and M Kwok) 

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‘Courts and Technology: Remote Hearings in Hong Kong Courts’, Hong Kong Civil Procedure News (November 2021) (with YCJ Mo)

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‘The Role of the English Courts in Alternative Dispute Resolution’ (2018) 28 Legal Studies 666-683

 

‘Exploring Mediator Liability in Negligence’ (2016) 45 Common Law World Review 165-185

 

‘Institutionalising Mediation in Hong Kong’ (2015) 45 Hong Kong Law Journal 769-794

 

‘Mediation in China: Towards a Modernised and Harmonised Procedural Framework for International Commercial Mediation’ (2015) 19 Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration 55-78

 

‘Ten Years After Halsey’ (2015) 34 Civil Justice Quarterly 77-95

 

'Unreasonable Refusal to Mediate: The Need for a Principled Approach’ (2014) 33 Civil Justice Quarterly 261-265

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‘A Bolder Step Towards Privacy Protection in Hong Kong: A Statutory Cause of Action’ (2014) 9 Asian Journal of Comparative Law 345-380 (with YCJ Mo)

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‘Proving Property Boundaries’ (2013) 77 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 395-402

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‘Pre-trial Mediation in Mainland China and Hong Kong: Rationales, Regulations and Ramifications’ (2013) 32 Civil Justice Quarterly 385-407

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‘Revisiting the Issue of Mediator Immunity: The Way Forward for Prospective Mediation Legislation in Hong Kong’ (2011) 41 Hong Kong Law Journal 677-696 (with Y Zhao)

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‘The Development of Legal Protection for Mediation Confidentiality in Hong Kong’ (2011) 40 Common Law World Review 263-277 (with Y Zhao)

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‘Confidentiality of Mediation Communications’ (2011) 30 Civil Justice Quarterly 192-203

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‘Mediation Confidentiality’ Hong Kong Lawyer (July 2010) 35-39

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‘Database Right Decoded’ (2010) 7 European Intellectual Property Review 313-319

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'Legal Developments in Hong Kong in 2009: A Review’ (2009) 1 City University of Hong Kong Law Review 155-162 (with M Beckett)

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‘Truth through Court Interpreters’ (2009) 13 International Journal of Evidence & Proof 212-224

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'Distribution over Peer-to-Peer Network’ (2008) 2 European Intellectual Property Review 74-76

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