Professional Qualifications

• Call (Hong Kong): 2016

Education and Awards

• P.C.LL.
• J.D.
• B.A., University of Hong Kong (1st Class Honours) (Dean’s Honours List)

Practice

Y.H. CHAN maintains a busy civil practice.  Of particular note is his advocacy and advisory work in disciplinary proceedings acting for complainees in various professions (such as the Medical Council, the Veterinary Surgeons Board, Insurance Authority etc.)

He is familiar with cases in connection with online fraud, underground banking, virtual currencies, and money exchange & remittance operators. He is frequently instructed in matters concerning regulation, licensing, and compliance under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance. 

He has a wealth of experience in obtaining and resisting injunctions and other anciliary orders on urgent basis.

On the criminal side, in the first year of his practice, in a jury trial in High Court, Y.H. CHAN defended his client against ketamine trafficking indictment.

During his stay in New College, Oxford University, he was a student of Prof. Patricia Sellers and studied advanced international criminal law under her tutelage.

He is experienced in defending and advising in a broad range of regulatory offences of immense difficulty and technicality, some of which attracted notable publicity. On his own, he is also repeatedly instructed to conduct magistracy appeals.

He was appointed as a deputy Magistrate in 2022 and 2023.

Selected Cases

• HKSAR v. N.L.T. (CAAR3/2023) – sentence review in the Court of Appeal
• Sun Man Wai Kennis v. Lui Wai Yee Eunice (HCMP505/2022) – removing administratrix and appointing a substitute
• C. v. R. (HCMP 1080/2021) – application under The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction against a parent who wrongfully removed the family child out of jurisdiction
• Chan Ting-ting v. Zhang Qingrun & Ors (HCA 727/2020) –  summarily discharging injunction attached to an account receiving dissipated funds on return date
• Universal Exports Group ltd v. Zechin Technology Co Ltd (HCA 2613/2016) (CACV 52/2017) – resisting continuation of Mareva injunction and appealing against first instance judge’s case management decision

Selected Publications

• Y.H. Chan (2013, 08 04). “A New Shenzhen-Hong Kong Border Control Measure”. Border Criminologies, the Centre of Criminology, the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.
• Y.H. Chan (2013, 08 03). “Transsexual Persons Can Get Married in Hong Kong in a Year’s Time”. Oxford Human Rights Hub, the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Re-published in print in the First Annual Anthology “Global Perspectives on Human Rights: Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog 2012-13” (May 2014)
• Y.H. Chan (2013, 07 22). “Latest Development in Hong Kong Non-Refoulement Policies”. Border Criminologies, the Centre of Criminology, the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.
• Y.H. Chan (2013, 06 13). “Why did the NSA whistle-blower choose Hong Kong?”. Border Criminologies, the Centre of Criminology, the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.
• Y.H. Chan (2013, 05 27). “Infant milk formula trading in Hong Kong”. Border Criminologies, the Centre of Criminology, the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.