Vivian Chan

Year of Call:

2018 (HK)

Vivian took the CPE and obtained her law degree with the Manchester Metropolitan University and completed her PCLL with the University of Hong Kong.  She commenced her practice as a barrister in 2018.  

Drawing from the experience from her commercial background, Vivian has developed a broad civil practice with emphasis on land, building management, equity and trusts, probate, as well as general commercial disputes.  She also accepts instructions for criminal proceedings.  Vivian has appeared as sole advocate in the District Court, the Court of First Instance and the Court of Appeal.

Alongside her legal practice, Vivian currently teaches part-time at the University of Hong Kong as a tutor, and at the University of Hong Kong School of Professional and Continuing Education (HKUSPACE) as an adjunct lecturer in Land Law and Civil Procedure.

She is also an accredited mediator with HKMAAL and has acted as Mediator in cases involving debt recovery, intellectual property rights, contractual claims, commercial disputes,  employment and building management.

Vivian is fluent in English and Cantonese.

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Education

P.C.LL.: University of Hong Kong 

Bachelor of Law:        Manchester Metropolitan University

Bachelor of Business:  University of Technology, Sydney

Master of Business:     University of Technology, Sydney

Awards
Appointments

Accredited Mediator  (HKMAAL)

Practice Areas

Land, equity and trusts, probate, matrimonial disputes, and general contractual and commercial disputes

Selected cases

Chu Wing Chuen Paul & Ors v Chu Oi Yan Irene [2022] HKCFI 804

Lee Kok Che & Ors v Royal Mortgage Ltd & Ors [2022] HKCFI 3500; [2023] 2 HKLRD 292

Incorporated Owners of Kam Luk Building v 吳靜燕  [2022] HKCA 1896; [2023] 1 HKC 683

吳銳堂 對 陳志強 [2022] HKDC 1056; Ng Yui Tong v Chan Chi Keung [2023] HKCA 163

Incorporated Owners of Kam Luk Building v Ng Ching Yin by Yeung Hsuan Vincent, her guardian ad litem [2023] HKCA 1352

Data World Solutions Ltd v Anor v Chan Wing Cheong & Ors [2024] HKDC 66 

Lam Pak Yuen 對 Lung Kee Bicycle Company Ltd [2025] HKDC 297

Ho Kwong Yuen (何廣源) v Yau Yan Man (邱仁萬) [2025] HKDC 777 

Kan Hong (簡康) v Kan Hang Ping (簡杏萍) [2025] HKDC 1005

Tang Kwok Pong(鄧國邦)v Tang Lun Kok Tso (鄧麟閣祖) with Tang Chuen-fat alias Tang Chun-fat (鄧春發), TangTak-wai alias Tang Yut-kwong (鄧德偉), Tang Chun-shu (鄧春樹) and Tang Sun-yip (鄧新葉) as Managers & Ors  [2025] HKDC 1402

Other Qualifications

Other Members

John Necholas

John Necholas, Called to the English Bar at Michaelmas,1972. Pupillage under the Hon. Brian Clapham and Hon. Graham Boal. Admitted to the Hong Kong Bar in 1975 and stayed in practice ever since.

Adrian So

Adrian has developed a broad criminal and civil practice and has experience in matters spanning a wide spectrum of practice areas. He has appeared both in his own right and as a led junior in the Court of Final Appeal, the Court of First Instance, the District Court and the Magistrates’ Courts. He also acted as counsel-on-fiat for the prosecution in the Magistrates’ Courts and is currently on the Legal Aid Panel for criminal matters.

Adrian has experience in a wide range of criminal cases, both at trial and appellate level, such as money laundering, corruption, dishonesty offences, sexual offences, assault offences, road traffic offences, drug-related offences and immigration offences. On the civil side, Adrian has accumulated experience in matters such as personal injuries, contractual, probate, company, land, commercial matters, administrative appeal, and other general civil disputes.

Tiffany Tin

Tiffany was called to the Bar in 2013 and has developed a broad civil and criminal practice.

She has been instructed in a wide range of cases involving areas such as general commercial, contract, company, construction, employment, land (adverse possession, conveyancing & lease), trusts (constructive trust, breach of fiduciary duties & property disputes), tort, personal injuries, probate, family/matrimonial (divorce suit, ancillary relief, custody, parental rights & guardianship), judicial review, guardianship for mentally incapacitated persons, as well as criminal matters (commercial, industrial & general).

Her practice involves providing advisory work and appearing as an advocate (either in her own right or as a led junior) for individuals and private entities in interlocutory proceedings, trials as well as appeal hearings in all levels of Court in Hong Kong.  

She also regularly accepts instructions from Government Departments to prosecute and represent defendants in criminal proceedings, and to provide pro bono advice under the Free Legal Advice Scheme.

Publications:

Headnote writer

LexisNexis, 2015

Contributing editor

Hong Kong Civil Procedure, Sweet & Maxwell, 2015

Contributing author

Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 32): Commentary and Annotations, Sweet & Maxwell, 2014

Languages:

Fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin