Conan Tsang

Barrister: 2020 (HK)

Solicitor: 2025 (England and Wales)

He was a pupil of Mr. Derek Chan (Senior Counsel), Mr. Isaac Chan, Mr. Joseph Lee, and the late Ms. Yvonne Fong.

Conan is a recipient of the Hong Kong Bar Association Charles Ching Memorial Scholarship and six other scholarships at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He is developing a broad practice, receiving instructions from both civil and criminal side, and is focusing predominantly on contractual and company disputes. He represents clients in a wide range of cases, on criminal matters such as money laundering and conspiracy to defraud, as well as civil matters such as competition, company, personal injury, medical negligence, and water seepage cases. 

Conan regularly appears in Court, both as a sole advocate and a led junior, and has appeared in all levels of courts. He has appeared in the Court of Final Appeal, Court of Appeal, High Court, District Court, Family Court, and Magistrates’ Court. He has also handled more than 30 cases in his first year of practice, most of which as sole advocate, and several of which are criminal trials. He has also represented clients in a number of high-value disputes.

He is fluent in English, Cantonese, and Putonghua. He is capable of providing written submissions and conducting hearings in both English and Chinese.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Bachelor of Arts (English Literature), First Class Honours (2016)
• Juris Doctor, JD Scholarship for Academic Merit (2018)
• PCLL, Distinguished Scholarship Place (2019)

Chartered Financial Analyst Level 1 (passed) – Apr 2024

• Research Assistant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law (Mar 2018 – June 2018) – Assisting Mr. Christopher Ellis in legal research for his criminal law publication.

  Including: Chapter on Mens Rea, Hong Kong Archbold, Sweet & Maxwell

• Research Assistant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law (Sept 2017 – May 2019) – Assisting Professor Stephen Hall in legal research for his contract law publication.

  Including:
  1) Ho & Hall’s Hong Kong Contract Law (4th and 5th Ed.), Lexis Nexis
  2) Contract, Volume 18 in Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong, Lexis Nexis

– Selected Civil Cases

• Medical negligence case: represent a client in an action against the Hospital Authority
• Personal injury: nasal injury, ankle injury and PTSD as a result of traffic accident (advice on liability and quantum)
• Personal injury: whiplash injury as a result of traffic accident (advice on quantum)
• Matrimonial proceedings on variation of access to children and maintenance pending suit (appear in Family Court for client who is a local tycoon with high net worth, involving assets of hundreds of millions)
• Disciplinary proceedings: represent a client alleged to be having misconduct at work
• Competition case: advise clients on potential penalties of serious anti-competitive conduct; represent clients in negotiations with the Competition Commission on leniency agreements
• Contract claim of HKD 3 million for defective and unmerchantable goods (surgical masks) (advise client, and draft pleadings)
• Contract claim of around HKD 200k over late delivery of goods (draft pleadings)
• Company’s action: obtaining declaratory and injunctive reliefs against directors of a company, challenging the validity of appointment of members (draft pleadings)
• Debt claim of HKD 1.8 million over default of loan (appear in District Court and Court of Appeal for Order 14 Summary Judgment)
• Detinue for recovery of wrongfully detained property (draft pleadings including Statement of Claim and Reply to Defence and Counterclaim)
• Enforcement of arbitral awards (appear for client who intends to set aside arbitral awards)
• Action for return of sum paid for failure of consideration (advise client on potential remedies)
• Land dispute over the beneficial ownership of a residential property (advise on the applicability of Partition Ordinance and draft pleadings)
• Resisting injunction application over entry of property (draft pleadings)
• Probate administration of a deceased’s property (advise client)
• Water seepage case (advise on liability and quantum of damages, appear for client in a 4-day trial)
• Water seepage case: represent clients who are defendants
• Water seepage case: advise clients as potential plaintiffs with regard to merits of the case
• Admiralty action in relation to collision of vessels (draft pleadings)

– Selected Criminal Cases

• Appeal against conviction of offences under Cap.279 Education Ordinance on grounds that the provisions are unconstitutional (represent client in the Court of Final Appeal as a led junior)
• Conspiracy to defraud (appear in court for client in an 8-day trial)
• Conspiracy to defraud (advise client, appear in court for client)
• Money laundering involving proceeds of around HKD 350 million, the first ever prosecution by the Customs and Excise Department in Hong Kong in relation to dealing with proceeds of the sales of gold bars (appear in court for client in an 8-day trial)
• Money laundering involving proceeds of more than HKD 100 million (advise client, appear in court for client in a 4-day mitigation, client was released from jail a month later)
• Money laundering involving proceeds of more than HKD 1 million (advise client, appear in court for client in a 3-day mitigation, suspended sentence was passed)
• Obtaining access to computer with criminal intent (appear in court for client in a 7-day trial)
• Employing persons who are not lawfully employable (advise client, appear in court for client)
• Employing persons who are not lawfully employable (appear in court for client for both trial and appeal, court overturned sentence on appeal)
• Loitering (advise client; appear in court for client)
• Making false declaration (advise client)
• Making false instrument (advise client)
• Outraging public decency (appear in court for client in trial)
• Perverting the course of justice (advise client, appear in court for client)
• Providing false information which the person knows or ought to know is false in the material particular (advise client, appear in court for client in a 3-day trial)
• Unlawful assembly (advise and appear in court for client, secured the anonymity order)

• Hong Kong Bar Association Charles Ching Memorial Scholarship
• CUHK PCLL Distinguished Scholarship Place
• CUHK JD Scholarship for Academic Merit
• CUHK Kunkle and Pommerenke Grand Scholarships: Full-Tuition Scholarship Award
• CUHK Chung Chi Departmental Prize
• CUHK Chung Chi College Class Scholarship
• CUHK Dean’s List (Faculty of Arts)