Year of Call - 2005

Lee is a dual-qualified Barrister, having practised at the Hong Kong Bar prior to joining NSQB.

FAMILY LAW PRACTICE

Lee accepts instructions in the following areas:

Financial remedies

• Matrimonial finance

• Schedule 1 claims

• TOLATA claims

• Private FDR, mediation & arbitration

Private law children

• Child arrangements orders

• Prohibited steps orders

• Specific issue orders

• Hague & non-Hague Convention removals/cross-border issues

Injunctive relief

• Non-molestation orders

• Occupation orders 

Advocacy, negotiation & advice

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Lee is regularly instructed as trial counsel in multi-day contested hearings, including complex fact-finding hearings concerning allegations of domestic abuse and parental alienation. He is proactive in negotiating post-separation financial settlements, as well as facilitating agreements for child residence and contact arrangements wherever possible, practicable and appropriate. He believes in giving practical and realistic advice, cutting through to the crux of the issues in the hope of achieving a speedy, just and effective resolution of contentious matters.

Lee appreciates the emotional strain on parties involved in family law proceedings and is particularly sensitive to the requirements of vulnerable clients and those with language or other communication needs.

PREVIOUS WORK OVERSEAS

Before joining NSQB in 2023, Lee spent several years practising as a Barrister in Hong Kong, chiefly in the civil field, having a broad contentious and non-contentious practice, including contract, commercial and chancery matters, as well as accepting instructions in various criminal cases. He has also been granted rights of audience at the AIFC Court, Kazakhstan. In terms of ADR, Lee was accredited as a Mediator by CEDR in 2008 and HKMAAL in 2013 and was admitted as a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) in 2008.

In addition to legal practice, Lee was appointed as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at The University of Hong Kong where he has, for many years, lectured law in both the Faculty of Law and the School of Professional and Continuing Education, predominantly in the Law of Contract and Equity & Trusts. He has published extensively, including sole-authored books on the general law of contract (‘Contract Law in Hong Kong’) and contract interpretation (‘Construction of Commercial Contracts in Hong Kong’), as well as contributing chapters to the leading contract law practitioner text (‘Chitty on Contracts: Hong Kong Specific Contracts’). Lee is also the original and present author of the current chapter on Consumer Protection in the leading criminal law practitioner text (‘Archbold Hong Kong’). In addition to this, he has penned numerous articles for various international refereed law journals, including many that have been repeatedly cited elsewhere in academic literature and by the English Law Commission. 

During his years in Hong Kong, Lee has accepted various local and international invitations to deliver lectures to universities, professional bodies, organisations and law firms, including Magic Circle, as well as a commission to produce training materials for the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He has also accepted invitations to participate in Hong Kong law reform, such as by providing consultation paper comments to the Hong Kong Department of Justice and delivering submissions in deputation to the Bills Committee of the Hong Kong Legislative Council.

Before moving to Hong Kong, Lee worked in Germany for a couple of years, lecturing at a leading law school in Hamburg.