HK LawTech Fund is open for applications today. From April 28 to June 26, HK law firms and barristers’ chambers with 5 or fewer practitioners may apply for reimbursement of up to HK$50,000 for procuring and upgrading approved IT systems and training. Further details on the Law Society and Bar Association websites. The legal
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The shutting down of many courtrooms and drastic reduction of court services in Hong Kong in February and March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to major concerns about a significant backlog of cases and applications piling up. The public has raised questions relating to why readily available technologies, such as telephone and
As I heard the news about the new government budget pegged to the “Vision 2030 for Rule of Law” project, three questions floated in my mind: What does the rule of law of mean in this project? What does the rule of law look like in contemporary Hong Kong? What are the implications on the
Over the last few years, I have published on a range of topics, including anti-corruption, environmental regulation, legal innovation, and property law, among other areas. It is intellectually rewarding to see that academics and professionals from Australia, Hong Kong, the U.S., and other regions have cited some of my published pieces in their scholarship and
The 50th Anniversary of the St. Gallen Symposium (“SGS”) will be held in May 2020. I am a big fan of the SGS initiative. I have written about my experience at SGS many years ago (please read it here). It was transformative and I have kept in touch with many fellow participants. Are you enrolled
I hardly go out on weekends these days, but yesterday was different. There was a closing party in Causeway Bay to celebrate the end of the third Entrepreneur First (“EF“) incubation program in Hong Kong, and sadly the last one in the city as reported by TechCrunch. We had guests from Singapore, the U.S., and
I developed my debating skills in secondary school inter-school competitions and similar competitions during my undergraduate and postgraduate studies, including at the Oxford Union (where many famous debates were conducted in the past). These skills have served me well in my legal and business careers, and whenever the Socratic method becomes relevant. Over the last few
Today, I spoke on the “Global Development and Resilience” panel at the Future City Summit, which covered the issues of privacy regulation and governance in the contexts of emerging smart cities and the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, and logistics and supply chains. The panel was led by Sabine Reppert (Intent-X), and joined by Prof.
A recurring question we face in developing a Hub in the Global Shapers Community (“GSC”) is: how do we recruit the right members? No easy answer. But our Shapers are our key if not sole assets. The right Shapers can lead the Hub to extraordinary success, create enormous value for their fellow Shapers, and indeed organise fantastic
This is submission of my proposed 2017-18 Leadership Plan for the Hong Kong Hub (copy of the submission made on Top Link on March 5, 2017). I feel enormously privileged to be part of our special community, and I hope to leverage my experiences as a Shaper and more recently as the Vice Curator to better serve
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