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Bernard Man SC   文本立資深大律師

Call: 2000 (HK); 2000 (England & Wales)
Inner Bar: 2015

CEDR Accredited Mediator: 2010
Member of the HKIAC List of Arbitrators

Profile

Bernard Man SC has a broad commercial litigation practice, with particular experience in banking, insolvency (corporate and personal) and company disputes. He also has a substantial chancery and family law practice.

Bernard is cited as a “Band 1” silk in the commercial dispute resolution category in the Chambers & Partners guides (Global and Asia Pacific), and described as “one of the very top silks operating in Hong Kong right now” with “superb advocacy" and the ability "to think outside the box and provide a solution to the problem, regardless of the complexity of the issues”.

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Selected Cases

Commercial

  • Shearman & Sterling (a firm) v Asia-Pac Infrastructure Development Limited [2021] HKCFI 1380; [2022] HKCFI 218

  • Yu Man Fung Alice v Chiau Sing Chi Stephen [2020] HKCFI 2923; [2021] HKCA 1456

  • Delco Participation BV v Chiho Environmental Group [2021] HKCFI 249; [2021] HKCFI 1272

  • Yifung Developments Ltd v Liu Chi Keung, Ricky [2021] HKCA 1641

  • Eton Properties Ltd v Xiamen Xinjingdi Ltd [2016] 2 HKLRD 1106; (2020) 23 HKCFAR 348

  • Banking / Finance

  • Wang Haihong v JP Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Ltd [2021] 4 HKLRD 770

  • DBS Bank v San Hot [2013] 4 HKC 1

  • Company

  • Lu Yongliang v Bank of China Ltd, Dongguan Branch [2021] HKCA 1048

  • Ng Christina v Capella Capital Ltd [2020] 2 HKLRD 274

  • Elliott International LP v Bank of East Asia Ltd [2018] 4 HKLRD 396

  • Waddington Ltd v Chan Chun Hoo Thomas CACV 10/2014 (14 Oct 2016)

  • Re China Medical Technologies Inc [2016] 2 HKLRD 962

  • Insolvency

  • Pan Sutong v Bank of China Ltd [2022] HKCFI 1450

  • Equity / Trust

  • A v B [2022] HKCFI 1031

  • Fok Chun Yue Benjamin & others v Fok Chun Wan Ian & others HCA 92, 274, 275/2016

  • Leung Ping Chiu, Roy v Wai Wai Chen [2019] 3 HKLRD 162; [2020] 3 HKC 363; [2021] HKCA 941

  • Herman Budihardjo v Di Gunawan [2018] HKCFI 1450

  • Arbitration

  • Astro Nusantara International BV v PT Ayunda Prima Mitra (2018) 21 HKCFAR 118

  • X v Y [2021] 2 HKC 68

  • Injunction / Contempt

  • Yan Yu Ying v Leung Wing Hei [2022] HKCFI 1660

  • Cheng Siu Fai v Swenson Global Opportunities Funds SPC [2021] HKCA 1005

  • Essilor Manufacturing (Thailand) Co Ltd v Wong Kam Wai [2020] HKCA 351

  • Galsworthy v Liu Por [2019] HKCFI 2397

  • DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd v Tian Wen Quan HCA 3228/2016 (12 Oct 2017)

  • Arrow ECS Norway AS v Xin Cheng Holdings Co Ltd HCA 239/2016 (12 May 2016)

  • Others

  • Wanzhou Meng v HSBC HCMP 251/2021

  • Practice Areas

  • Commercial
  • Probate / Succession
  • Family / Matrimonial
  • Securities & Regulation
  • Insolvency
  • Arbitration
  • Public Law / Judicial Review
  • Company
  • Property & Conveyancing
  • Equity / Trust
  • Banking / Finance
  • Employment
  • Rating & Valuation
  • Mental Health
  • Injunction / Contempt
  • Civil Fraud / Asset Recovery
  • Professional Liability
  • Mediation
  • Equity / Trust
  • Conflict of Laws
  • Restitution / Unjust Enrichment
  • Confidentiality / Privacy
  • Defamation / Media
  • Disciplinary
  • Appointments And Public Office

  • Member of the Hospital Governing Committee, Queen Elizabeth Hospital (2023-2024)

  • Securities and Futures Commission, Disciplinary Chair Committee, Member (2022-present)

  • Deputy High Court Judge, Hong Kong (2018-2022)

  • Chairman, Standing Committee on Land, Trust and Probate, Hong Kong Bar Association (2016-2018, 2022-2023)

  • Barristers Qualification Examination – Panel on Company Law (Member 2015-2020; Convenor 2020 to present)

  • Chairman, Hong Kong Examinations And Assessment Authority Appeal Review Committee (2022-present)

  • Member, Bar Council (2015-2016)

  • Education

    1996

    Law Moderations (Distinction), University of Oxford (St Anne’s College)

    1998

    BA in Jurisprudence (Law) (First Class), University of Oxford (St Anne’s College)

    1999

    BCL, University of Oxford (St Anne’s College)

    2000

    Bar Vocational Course

    Scholarship And Prizes

    2000

    Bar Scholarship

    2000

    Winner of the Middle Temple Mooting Competition

    1998

    Hong Kong Oxford Scholarship

    1998

    St Anne’s College Prize for Final Honours School

    1998

    St Anne’s College Law Prize

    1996

    St Anne’s College Scholarship

    1995

    Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship for Overseas Studies

    languages

    Fluent in English, Cantonese and Putonghua

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