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Kelly completed his pupillage with Mr. Johnny Mok SC, Ms. Winnie Tam, SC, Mr. Wong Yan-Lung SC, Mr. Ashok K. Sakhrani, and Mr. Bernard Chung.
Kelly is deeply inspired in his criminal practice by his pupil- master Bernard Chung, as well as the late Mr. Peter Wan Wah- shing, Mr. Albert Luk while he was serving his pupillage in Cheng Huan Chambers.
His approximate 20 years of working experience before joining the Bar includes:
– Police officer from 1978 serving under his first Sub-unit Commander, John Lee Ka-chiu, the present Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Administrative Region;
– School teacher in Japanese and English language;
– Marketing Manager in Hong Kong;
– Business entrepreneur in Timepieces in the middle-east country;
– An actor and a production staff in Hong Kong movies;
– A guest speaker in Hong Kong TV programmes;
– An actor in Japanese dramas and a guest in variety programmes;
– A host of an individual Fuji TV’s 13-episode TV programme “Hong Kong Dragon News”.
Kelly established Queensway Chambers in 2015 with Mr. Bowie Yip.
Kelly has developed a broad criminal and civil practice, he has appeared before all levels of Courts including Magistrates’ Courts, District Court, Court of First Instance, Court of Appeal, Court of Final Appeal, Family Court, Market Misconduct Tribunal, Disciplinary Proceedings of civil servants, etc. and he is very experienced in Jury trials.
He has significant experience in handling white-collar commercial crimes, ICAC-related corruption, Immigration, Customs and Excise cases, offences in money laundering, fraud and deception, sexual offences, conspiracy, misconduct in public office, perverting the course of justice, traffic offences, etc.
Kelly handles cases in financial markets which result in market misconduct proceedings in the criminal courts as well as in the Market Misconduct Tribunal.
In civil practice, he accepts instructions in defamation, matrimonial cases in the Family Court, contractual disputes, civil injunctions etc.
Disciplinary proceedings against civil servants is also Kelly’s specialty.
Before joining the legal field, the diversity of Kelly’s working experience for about 20 years in the police, educational and commercial field, show business, etc. shapes the uniqueness of his advocacy and skills in handling cases of different nature and clients with different demands.
Kelly studied law at the University of Hong Kong and graduated in 1995. Kelly also graduated from the following institutions or completed the following studies:
– Court of Final Appeal
HKSAR v Chan C.L. [2024] HKCFA 1 (2024) 27 HKCFAR 31
(leading Anthony Lai, Jackson Chow, Chris Chan, members of Queensway Chambers)
– a dangerous drugs case which has significant implication regarding the scope of ‘Right to Silence’ in the context of lack of or late complaint regarding police impropriety
Two Court of Final Appeal cases involving the same appellant which arose from two High Court Jury Trials.
HKSAR v ZHOU L.M.(No.2) [2020) HKCFA 15(2020) 23 HKCFAR 169
(leading Anthony Lai and Holly Cheng, members of Queensway Chambers)
– a dangerous drugs trafficking case, whether a re-trial was appropriate in the light of the Appellant’s psychiatric condition.
HKSAR v ZHOU L.M. (2017) 20 HKCFAR 71
(leading Holly Cheng, member of Queensway Chambers)
– a dangerous drugs trafficking case, whether equivocal statements made by accused is capable of constituting admission of relevant fact in issue
HKSAR v Li K.C. [2014] (2014) 17 HKCFAR
– a significant case to determine what “Proceeds of Crime” is
– Court of Appeal and Jury trial
Kelly handles cases involving the same or different appellants or defendants in appeal and jury trials.
HKSAR v Choi Y.C. HCCC 73/2015 (Trial)
(leading Anthony Lai, member of Queensway Chambers)
– a record-high money laundering case involving an amount of over 7.2 billion Hong Kong dollars on a couple of husband and wife who were the remittance agents
HKSAR v Lam M.N. HCCC 113/2012 (Trial)
– a conspiracy to defraud and money laundering case
HKSAR v Choi C. T. HCCC 226/2020 (Trial)
(leading Jackson Chow, member of Queensway Chambers)
– collecting parcel, alleged dangerous drugs trafficking case
HKSAR v Liu Y. K. CACC 176/2019 (Appeal)
(leading Anthony Lai, member of Queensway Chambers)
– appeal on confession obtained by fiancée’s inducements and oppression which requires a Mushtaq direction
HKSAR v Cheong C. Y. HCCC 178/2019 (Trial)
(leading Vincent Kwong, member of Queensway Chambers)
– an alleged dangerous drugs trafficking case
Two trials involving the same defendant on alleged dangerous drugs trafficking
HKSAR v Wong Y.W.
HCCC 375/2017
– (leading Richie Lai, member of Queensway Chambers)
HCCC 397/2019
– (leading Bowie Yip, member of Queensway Chambers)
HKSAR v W. L. CACC 227/2016 (Appeal)
(leading Anthony Lai, member of Queensway Chambers)
– appeal on mere suspicion is not sufficient for conviction of dangerous drugs offence
– Appeal and trial involving the same appellant / defendant –
HKSAR v LI X. L.
CACC 22/2014
– whether summing-up direction to Jury is unfair
HCCC 137/2013
– an alleged dangerous drugs trafficking case involving a university student
HKSAR v MAI L. HCCC 174/2015 (Trial)
– an alleged dangerous drugs trafficking case involving a property agent
HKSAR v M. A. HCCC 69/2014 (Trial)
– an alleged dangerous drugs trafficking case involving a tourist
HKSAR v BIAN Z. J. HCCC 131/2013 (Trial)
(leading Anthony Lai, member of Queensway Chambers)
– trial for the fifth time, an alleged dangerous drugs trafficking case involving a shop attendant
HKSAR v LI Y. H. HCCC 271/2013 (Trial)
– an alleged dangerous drugs trafficking case
HKSAR v CHEN H.D. HCCC 444/2012 (Trial)
– an alleged dangerous drugs trafficking case
HKSAR v ZHU J. (Appeal)
CACC 31/2011
– whether the summing-up direction to Jury is unfair
HCCC 287/2010
– trial, an alleged dangerous drugs trafficking case
– Other Selected Cases of lower Courts
Appeal and trial for the same appellant / defendant
HCMA 1/2022 (Appeal)
(leading Wendy Lau and Anthony Lai, the latter being a member of Queensway Chambers)
– appeal on failure to consider credibility when the Appellant relied on mixed-statement without giving evidence in Court
WKCC 684/2021 (Trial)
(leading Wendy Lau)
HCMA 92/2019
– appeal on failure to consider evidence of defence and defence witness
STCC 4135/2017
– trial on making a false representation to an Immigration Officer
HCMA 151/2018
– appeal on manifestly excessive sentence
FLCC 4567/2017
– trial on common assault, criminal intimidation and criminal damage
HCMA 1199/2007
– appeal on the Court’s approach to consider a mixed-statement when the appellant did not give evidence in Court
ESCC 1560/2007
– trial on uttering false document
HCMA 486/2005
– appeal on whether there was falsity on the document
KTCC 7783/2004
– trial on fraud and deceiving the principal by using a document
– Other Cases
STCC 1374/2022 (Trial)
– a case of civil servant on alleged voyeurism
ESCC 598/2022 (Trial)
– a case of civil servant on alleged indecent assault whilst on duty
DCCC 355/2021 (Trial)
(leading Member of Queensway Chambers Conan Tsang)
– a case of alleged money laundering through trading in solid gold
KCCC 1943/2021 (Trial)
– a case of civil servant on Misconduct in Public Office
KTCC 1555/2020 (Trial)
– a case of education officer of Education Bureau on Access to computer with dishonest intent
TMCC 1515/2020 (Trial)
– a case of property agents on alleged conspiracy to defraud and receive advantages
WKCC 5804/2018 (Trial)
– a case of civil servant on alleged indecent assault in MTR
ESCC 3926/2016 (Trial)
– a case of alleged false Trade Description on pharmacy