Barrister
Warwick Tam
Email
warwicktam@gmail.com
Phone
25262293

Warwick Tam

Barrister

Profile

Warwick maintains a broad criminal and civil practice and accepts instructions in all areas of work.  He served his pupillage with Mr Martin Hui SC, Mr Franco Kuan, Mr Martin Ho and Mr Jonathan Ah-weng, and extended pupillage with Ms Maggie Wong SC and Mr Derek Chan SC.

Warwick has experience in white collar crimes, fraud and money laundering cases, traffic offences, drug-related offences, violence offences, sexual offences and market misconduct matters.  He has been involved in trials in the High Court, the District Court and the Magistrates’ Courts, and has worked on various criminal appeal cases.

His civil practice has an emphasis on commercial and company work.  During limited practice, Warwick represented a NASDAQ-listed company, its subsidiaries and its former director in resisting an application for continuation of an injunction order as a co-counsel, and successfully obtained security for costs as a sole advocate in the High Court.

Warwick is a former solicitor.  He graduated from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and was the captain of HKU Cantonese Debate Team.

 

Qualifications

LLB (HKU), PCLL (HKU), Solicitor of HK (2021-22)

 

Practice Areas

  • Arbitration
  • Bankruptcy
  • Commercial Disputes
  • Commercial Fraud
  • Company Law and Winding Up
  • Contract Disputes
  • Corruption
  • Dishonesty Offences
  • Departmental Summonses
  • General Civil Litigation
  • General Crime Injunctive Relief
  • Judicial Review
  • Market Misconduct
  • Mental Health
  • Money Laundering
  • Public Law
  • Professional Regulation and Discipline
  • Securities Law
  • Sexual Offences
  • Trust
  • Traffic Offences
  • Violence Offences


Selected Cases

BANKRUPTCY

  • Re LI Wai Yin (HCB 3465/2021) – Acted for an intended creditor seeking to reverse the decision of Trustee rejecting his proof of debt on the ground of provability of debt
  • Re CHENG Wa Ching (HCB 7088/2025) – Acted for the opposing creditor and successfully opposed the Petitioner’s petition for self-bankruptcy
  • Re LAU Suet Wa (HCB 5307/2025) – Acted for the opposing creditor and successfully opposed the Petitioner’s petition for self-bankruptcy
  • Re LAM Wai Man (HCB 4728/2024) – Acted for the opposing creditor and successfully opposed the Petitioner’s petition for self-bankruptcy
  • Re PUN Chi Hing (HCB 8187/2025) – Acted for the opposing creditor and successfully opposed the Petitioner’s petition for self-bankruptcy

CRIMINAL

  • 香港特別行政區 訴 姚樹穩 (D2) 及其他人 [2025] HKDC 1467 & [2025] HKDC 1712–Acted for D2 charged with offering an advantage to an agent and conspiracy to falsify accounts in a severance application and a 40-day trial (led by Mr Martin Hui SC; with Ms Ferrida Chan) (acquittal for the first charge)
  • 香港特別行政區 訴 江浩智 (D3) 及其他人 [2024] HKDC 491 & [2024] HKDC 270 – Acted for D3 charged with conspiracy to defraud and money laundering in a 10-day trial (with Mr Jonathan Ah-weng)
  • DCCC 780/2024 – Acted for D5 charged with conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to employ a scheme with intent to defraud or deceive in transactions involving securities in a trial fixed for 35-day (with Mr David Chan) (ongoing)
  • ESCC 806/2020 – Acted for D charged with access to a computer with criminal or dishonest intent and money laundering (with Ms Vivian Wong)
  • Advised a multinational athletic apparel and footwear corporation in relation to the criminal aspect of a complaint lodged by a customer regarding fitting room privacy
  • ESCC 2818/2025 – Acted for D charged with one count of criminal intimidation and one count of threatened publication of intimate images without consent (sole advocate) (ongoing)
  • ESCC 2272/2025 – Acted for D charged with money laundering involving the use of accounts for cryptocurrency transactions in a total quantum of around HK$5M and successfully obtained bail pursuant to an 8-day bail review application (sole advocate)
  • KTS 3905/2026 – Acted for a jewellery and watches and clocks company charged with failing to take out insurance for an employee (sole advocate) (ongoing)
  • ESCC 2784/2025 – Acted for D charged with conspiracy to wounding with intent and conspiracy to damage property (sole advocate)
  • KCS 29592/2025 & 292593/2025 – Acted for D charged with operating a guesthouse without a licence and being the tenant of a guesthouse in respect of which no guest licence was in force (sole advocate)
  • TMCC 1671/2025 – Acted for D charged with theft (sole advocate)

COMMERCIAL / COMPANY

  • Real Estate and Finance Fund (in liq) & Anor v TROOPS Inc & Ors [2023] HKCFI 1580 – Acted for a NASDAQ listed company, its subsidiaries and its former director in a dispute concerning an alleged fraudulent conspiracy:
    • Successfully obtained security for costs against Ps (sole advocate)
    • Resisted an application for continuation of worldwide and Mareva injunctions during a 4-day hearing and applied for the discharge of the injunction order and ancillary disclosure orders (with Mr Martin Ho)
  • Cheung Sau Mei & Ors v One Heritage Trust Limited (HCA 986/2024) [2024] HKCFI 3587 – Acted for 23 Plaintiffs who have fallen victims to an investment scam:
    • Successfully obtained a judgment against D with a court declaration that the defrauded sums were held on trust by D for the relevant Ps (sole advocate)
    • Successfully obtained a Mareva injunction and ancillary disclosure orders against D and two banks (with Mr Tony Ko)
  • LIU Zhen Huan v Green Economy Development Limited [2026] HKCFI 3299 – Acted for D (a HK listed company) in a claim relating to alleged false representations in HKEx announcements and media reports:
    • Successfully obtained security for costs against P (sole advocate)
    • Successfully obtained a striking-out order against P (sole advocate)
  • Yau Wah Yee & Ors v Chau Chung Wing Catherine (HCA 1689/2025) – Acted for the Plaintiffs who are victims to an investment fraud and successfully obtained judgment against the Defendant
  • A & Ors v B & Ors (HCMP 398/2025) – Acted for multiple victims of fraud regarding over US$1M investment in funds in applying for a Norwich Pharmacal order for discovery against various defendants.
  • China Medical Technologies, Inc. (in liq) & Ors v Chong Wing Hip (D5) & Ors (HCA 3391/2016 & HCA 1417/2013) – Acted for D5 in a case management conference regarding a dispute over an alleged conspiracy to carry out a theft against the Plaintiff companies (sole advocate)
  • Re Xiang Fa International Investment (Groups) Limited (HCCW 361/2023) – Acted for the Petitioner in obtaining leave to adduce expert evidence concerning a winding-up petition on, inter alia, just and equitable ground (sole advocate)
  • ZhenJiang Hi-Way IMP-EXP Co., LTD. v 嚴斌 & Ors (HCMP 1770/2019) – Acted for the Plaintiff company defrauded by Ds and successfully obtained a discovery order against two banks to obtain information for tracing and following the monies deposited into the Ds’ accounts (sole advocate)
  • Yung Man Yee v HK Yuhao Port Machinery Equipment Ltd & Ors (HCA 1511/2023) – Acted for the Plaintiff who was a victim to a fraud perpetrated by seven Defendants and successfully obtained a discovery order against all Ds to facilitate the tracing exercise (sole advocate)

CONTEMPT

  • The Incorporated Owners of Fook Cheong Building v Goodray Development Limited (D1) and Chong To Chai (D2) (HCMP 260/2023) – Acts for D1 and D2 in the context of an alleged breach of court orders and undertaking regarding right of access to certain parts of a building in a 7-day trial (part-heard) (with Mr Martin Ho)

DEATH INQUEST

  • Re Chan Fai Wong (CCDI 477/2013) – Assisted in a 29-day death inquest (re-hearing) which concerns multiple issues, including whether there was unlawful and dangerous use(s) of force by police officers in effecting the arrest of the deceased taxi driver and whether the said force caused the death of the taxi driver (with Ms Memi Ng)

PROBATE

  • Pow Chiu Mei & Ors v Pham Thi Minh Hanh [2026] HKCFI 2987 – Acted for the Defendant in resisting the Plaintiff’s application for removal of the Defendant as executrix of the Deceased’s estate (sole advocate)

PROPERTY / CONVEYANCING

  • Kerryford Holdings Limited & Ors v Wilson Development Company Limited & Ors (LDCS 8000/2022) – Acted for a HK private limited company in a compulsory sale of lot action and successfully resisted an application for unless order relating to filing of expert evidence with costs awarded (sole advocate)


Scholarship and Prizes

  • Rosita King Ho Scholarship (2017)
  • George William Hong Choy Memorial Scholarship (2015)
  • The 20th Basic Law Debating Competition, 2nd Runner up (2018)
  • HKU Inter-hall Debating Competition, Champion and Best Debater in Final (2018)
  • Civic Party Debating Competition, Champion and Best Debater in Final (2015)
  • The 39th Intervarsity Political Debate, Champion and Best Debater Award (2015)
  • Hong Kong Bar Association Debating Competition, Champion and Best Debater in Final (2013)


Languages

English, Cantonese, Putonghua