Tony Chan Chun-chuen has changed his team of lawyers after losing the court battle for Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum’s fortune.
Lawyers from Richard Butler, one of the city’s largest international law firms specialising in corporate litigation, will now represent Chan, who faces a police investigation into a forged will in the probate case.
A notice of change was filed in court yesterday.
The fung shui master hired the firm Haldanes to pursue his civil claim to the multibillion-dollar estate of Wang against rival Chinachem Charitable Foundation.
He said Wang left him her empire in a will made in 2006 out of love. But on February 2, Mr. Justice Johnson Lam Man-hon of the Court of First Instance struck down his claim, ruling that the 2006 will was forged.
The next day, officers from the police’s commercial crime bureau arrested Chan on suspicion of forging a document. At a police station that evening, Chan was accompanied by Richard Butler solicitor Alex Kaung Wai-ming.
Chan is now on police bail of HK$5 million.
Speaking through his public relations manager yesterday, Chan declined to say if Haldanes has been hired to act for him in the criminal proceedings, nor why he had changed his legal team.
Chan is not a new client of Richard Butler’s. While his probate battle against Chinachem was heard in the Court of First instance, he was represented by Richard Butler in a separate closed-door hearing that took place in another courtroom in the High Court building.
The hearing, held before Madam Justice Carlye Chu Fun-ling, concerned the administration of the estate but details of the hearing and the judgment have not been made public.
Jonathan Midgley, a partner at Haldanes, could not be reached for comment yesterday as he was not in Hong Kong.
Midgley, who specialises in criminal law, had represented Wang in 2005 when she herself was charged with forging a will amid her probate fight against her father-in-law Wang Din-shin for the estate of her husband Teddy Wang Teh-huei. The prosecution subsequently dropped the charge.
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Tony Chan hires new lawyers
Yvonne Tsui
09 February 2010
Tony Chan Chun-chuen has changed his team of lawyers after losing the court battle for Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum’s fortune.
Lawyers from Richard Butler, one of the city’s largest international law firms specialising in corporate litigation, will now represent Chan, who faces a police investigation into a forged will in the probate case.
A notice of change was filed in court yesterday.
The fung shui master hired the firm Haldanes to pursue his civil claim to the multibillion-dollar estate of Wang against rival Chinachem Charitable Foundation.
He said Wang left him her empire in a will made in 2006 out of love. But on February 2, Mr. Justice Johnson Lam Man-hon of the Court of First Instance struck down his claim, ruling that the 2006 will was forged.
The next day, officers from the police’s commercial crime bureau arrested Chan on suspicion of forging a document. At a police station that evening, Chan was accompanied by Richard Butler solicitor Alex Kaung Wai-ming.
Chan is now on police bail of HK$5 million.
Speaking through his public relations manager yesterday, Chan declined to say if Haldanes has been hired to act for him in the criminal proceedings, nor why he had changed his legal team.
Chan is not a new client of Richard Butler’s. While his probate battle against Chinachem was heard in the Court of First instance, he was represented by Richard Butler in a separate closed-door hearing that took place in another courtroom in the High Court building.
The hearing, held before Madam Justice Carlye Chu Fun-ling, concerned the administration of the estate but details of the hearing and the judgment have not been made public.
Jonathan Midgley, a partner at Haldanes, could not be reached for comment yesterday as he was not in Hong Kong.
Midgley, who specialises in criminal law, had represented Wang in 2005 when she herself was charged with forging a will amid her probate fight against her father-in-law Wang Din-shin for the estate of her husband Teddy Wang Teh-huei. The prosecution subsequently dropped the charge.
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