Lilian Ip

Lilian has a broad civil and commercial practice. Her major areas of practice include commercial disputes, company matters, land and property, trusts, probate, and mental health law. Her majority practice in recent years has been focusing on commercial disputes involving often an international or PRC component. Apart from court work, Lilian is also actively developing an arbitration practice focusing on international and commercial arbitration.

Lilian has substantial court experience and is regularly instructed to appear in trials before the High Court and District Court in commercial and land disputes between individuals and/or companies. She also has appeared in many contested interlocutory proceedings in her own right, and her experience spanned over injunctive relief, jurisdictional challenges, staying of proceedings in favour of arbitration, caveat proceedings, and more typical interlocutory applications including but not limited to summary judgment, security for costs, setting aside default judgment, striking out pleading, discovery, expert evidence, relief from sanction and others.

Outside of practice, Lilian serves as a Judicial Associate to judges of the Court of Appeal and Court of First Instance of the High Court.

Education and Membership

• 2022 Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• 2017 PCLL, University of Hong Kong
• 2016 MA (Law), University of Bristol, United Kingdom
• 2014 BSc, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Appointment

2023-present: Judicial Associate (General), High Court

Selected Cases

Commercial and Company Law

• Hua She Asset Management (Shanghai) Company Ltd v Gao Yan & Kei Kin Hung [2023] 4 HKLRD 575 (Resisting the Plaintiff’s injunction application to prevent the creditor from presenting a bankruptcy petition against the debtor)
• Re China Stem Cells Holding Limited & 3 Ors [2024] HKCFI 481 (Defending the company secretary in 4 actions for the alleged backdating of instrumental transfer documents of shares in a shareholder’s dispute following a BVI listed company just and equitable winding-up) (led by Anthony Chan SC)
• Re 北京精准溝通傳媒科技有限公司 [2024] HKCFI 1091; [2024] HKCLC 289 (Winding up a non-registered non-Hong Kong company under section 327 of the Cap 32
• Asia Credit Company Ltd v CS Asia Opportunities Fund, [2024] HKCFI 2005; HCCT21/2022 (Defending the Respondent Fund against O 48 RHC for an Order of Examination)
• Re Mau Wing Industrial Limited & 2 Ors [2024] HKCFI 492 (Resisting against winding-up petitions)
• Re Project Space Limited [2022] 3 HKC 607 (Directors’ disputes, Section 42 Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622) applications)
• Re Alain Kunpa, [2022] HKCA 834; CACV 569/2020 (Appeal against the bankruptcy order; adducing further evidence on appeal under Ladd v Marshall) (with Cyndi Ho)
• Washing Bo Laundry Limited v Ng Kwok Wai & Ho Kit Ching [2023] HKDC 1421; DCCJ 6892/2020 (Trial on disputes arising from and out of the breach of franchise agreement; penalty clauses)

Land

• Hong Kong Housing Society v Incorporated Owners of Heya Star, [2023] HKCFI 2142; HCA 874/2019 (Defending the IO for the alleged misallocation and misattribution of the management expenses)
• Cheung Kam Biu & Ors 對 何華蘭 & Anor (Trespasser claiming adverse possession in the entrance staircases of a building) [2020] HKDC 649 (on trial); [2020] HKDC 948 (resisting leave to appeal before trial judge); [2021] HKCA 132 (resisting leave to appeal in Court of Appeal) (Chinese Judgment)
• Chong Pui Cheong v Chong Pui Kwong as Administrator of the estate of Chang In, the deceased, [2022] HKCFI 3110 (Land: Beneficial ownership of a family property between siblings)
• Chung Yan Wing v Ko Hoi Si [2022] HKDC 1386 (Trial); [2023] HKDC 643 (Wasted costs against opponent’s legal representatives); DCCJ 2922/2020 (Beneficial ownership of a family property between mother and daughter)
• Chow Lily & Ors v Hau Suk Kiu Shirley [2020] HKDC 896 (Succession of legal and/or beneficial interest in land; competition of relativity of titles in land)

Family and Mental Health

• Re HCFA [2022] 4 HKLRD 783 (Mental Health; Part II Mental Health Ordinance (Cap. 136) application with the issue on locus standi of the applicant as a “far relative” of the MIP)
• Re LSW [2023] 3 HKLRD 1 (Mental Health; Part IVB Mental Health Ordinance (Cap. 136) application seeking leave to appeal against decision of Guardianship Board)
• Wong Lui v A Xiabuzha & Anor [2023] HKCFI 1003 (Probate; Administrator pendente lite application) (with Eric Leung)
• 區 對 李 [2022] HKFC 219 (Family; Ancillary Relief; disputes of a matrimonial property 15 years after the divorce) (Chinese Judgment)
• 羅 對 陸 [2021] HKFC 190 (Family; Ancillary relief; inherited property) (with Charlotte Ma) (Chinese Judgment)

Full List of Cases

For a full list of cases in which Lilian has appeared as Counsel please visit the Hong Kong Judiciary Website at https://legalref.judiciary.hk/lrs/common/ju/judgment.jsp using the Advanced Search function by searching the exact phrase of “Lilian Ip” or “葉煦欣”. A full CV is also available upon request.

Publications

• The Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong: Mental Health (Vol.40) (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2024 reissue) (forthcoming)
• Mental Health Ordinance (Cap. 136) of The Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths) (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2024 reissue)
• Mental Health Ordinance (Cap. 136) of The Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths) (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2021 reissue)
• Sale of Goods Ordinance (Cap. 26) of The Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths) (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2022 reissue)
• ‘Discrimination’ in Lexis Practical Guidance (Hong Kong) in Dispute Resolution (Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths 2022)
• ‘Civil Fraud’ in Lexis Practical Guidance (Hong Kong) in Dispute Resolution (Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths 2021)
• ‘Confidentiality’ in Lexis Practical Guidance (Hong Kong) in Data Protection (Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths 2021)
• ‘Dismissals’ in Lexis Practical Guidance (Hong Kong) in Employment Law (Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths 2020)