DANIEL W. S. CHAN

DANIEL W. S. CHAN

BARRISTER-AT-LAW

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Practice Profile

Daniel has a mixed practice in Civil and Criminal Litigation. The focus of his practice includes Contract and Commercial, Crime, Company and Partnership, Employment, Family, Insurance, Land, Landlord and Tenant, Building Management, Personal Injury and Tort. He was appointed by the Judiciary as Deputy Adjudicator of the Small Claims Tribunal for the period from 2014 to 2016 and as Deputy Presiding Officer of the Labour Tribunal for the period from 2016 to 2017. Daniel obtained his law degree in 1993 and post-graduate legal qualification in 1994. He was called to the Bar in Hong Kong in 1994 and has been in active private practice since 1995.

Apart from his legal practice, Daniel has also been engaged by various Universities and institutions in Hong Kong in providing services for law-related lectures, seminars, talks and in-house training. In addition to joining the Legal Aid Panel and the Panel for Prosecution on Fiat for the Department of Justice, Daniel also provides services to the Duty Lawyer Scheme in representing the accused in criminal proceedings and the claimant in Non-Refoulement application.

AREAS OF LEGAL PRACTICE

  • Civil Practice:

    Administrative and Public Law, Banking, Building and Construction, Chancery, Charities, Chinese Law and Customs, Civil Liberties, Commercial, Common Law, Company, Crime, Defamation, Election Law, Employment, Family and Children, Immigration, Insolvency, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Land Law, Landlord and Tenant, Medical Negligence, Partnership, Personal Injury, Private International, Probate and Administration of Trusts, Professional Negligence, Public International, Sale and Carriage of Goods, Securities, Shipping, Tax, Telecommunication, Town Planning.

  • Criminal Practice:

    in all levels of Court.

  • Arbitration

  • Mediation

JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT

  • 10/2017 - 5/2018

    Deputy Presiding Officer in Labour Tribunal (For Outstanding Cases and Hearings)

  • 5/2016 - 9/2017

    Deputy Presiding Officer in Labour Tribunal

  • 2/2014 - 5/2016

    Deputy Adjudicator in Small Claims Tribunal

LAW-RELATED TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • 9/2011 - 1/2017

    Lecturer/Tutor (Part-time) in Law of Obligation and Civil Evidence in Postgraduate Diploma in Arbitration/ Arbitration and Mediation, HKU SPACE

  • 1/2013 - 6/2014

    Lecturer (Part-time) in Service Business and Hospitality Law in School of Hotel and Tourism Management, CUHK

  • 1/2013 - 6/2013

    Assistant Professor (Part-time) in Property Laws in Master Degree of Housing Management, Department of Urban Planning and Design, HKU

  • 3/2007

    Lecturer/Tutor (Part-time) in Introduction to Business Law of Professional Diploma in Business Logistics, HKU SPACE

  • 8/2005 - 10/2012

    Lecturer/Tutor (Part-time) in the course Estate Planning and Employee Benefits for Professional Diploma in Personal Financial Planning, LiPACE OUHK

  • 2/2001 - 6/2004

    Lecturer/Tutor (Part-time) in various courses for The Management Development Centre of Hong Kong, Vocational Training Council (VTC)

OTHER EXPERIENCE

  • 2/2014

    Speaker for Training/Seminar on Labour Law for Vocational Training Council

  • 10/2013

    Speaker for Seminar of Disputes in Commercial Contracts held by Hong Kong Productivity Council

  • 3/2013

    Speaker for a Talk on Statutory Building Management Matters for Graduate Program in Facility Management, Department of Building Services Engineering, PolyU

  • 6/2010

    Speaker for a Talk on Will Making and Estate Planning for IFPHK (Institute of Financial Planners of Hong Kong)

  • 11/2000 - 08/2011

    Lecturer/Tutor (Part-time) in Macau Company Law and Business Law for Bachelor’s Degree and Higher Diploma Programmes in Business Administration & Accountancy and Facilitator in In-house Training Seminar of Disputes in Commercial Contracts held by Macau Institute of Management

  • 7/2010

    Translator (Case Catchwords) for Hong Kong Law Reports & Digest (HKLRD), Sweet and Maxwell, Thomson Reuters Hong Kong

  • 2002

    Author in revising and editing the Book - Business Law in Hong Kong- 3rd edn., The Management Development Centre of Hong Kong, VTC and The Chinese University Press

  • 4/1996 - 11/1996

    Team Expert in the Joint Project of City University and Peking University for the publication of: “Digest of Hong Kong Criminal Law”“Digest of Hong Kong Criminal Procedure”“Hong Kong Criminal Law, Descriptive Text”

  • 3/1996 - 7/1996

    Research Assistant to an Arbitration Project, Law Faculty, City University

  • 1995 - 1996

    Case Report Writer for Hong Kong Cases Law Reports, Butterworths

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