Conveyancing and Tenancy Law

Conveyancing

• Corporate and Commercial
• Banking and Finance
• Real Estate Transactions

– Appointed by the Government of Hong Kong SAR as a member of Hospital Authority effective April 1st, 2006 (醫院管理局成員)
– Appointed by the Government of Hong Kong SAR as a member of Commission on Strategic Development (策略發展委員會委員)
– Appointed by the Government of Hong Kong SAR as Justice of the Peace effective July 1st, 2004 (太平紳士)
– Director of The Dragon Foundation (龍傳基金董事)
– Appointed by the Secretary for Homes Affairs as the Chairman of the Executive Committee of The Board of Management of the Chinese Permanent Cemeteries
– Appointed by the Government of Hong Kong SAR as a member of the District Council for the district of Wong Tai Sin (2000-2003)
– Director of the Lions Club of Happy Valley, Hong Kong (1991-2000)
– Chairman of the Legal Committee of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce (1989-1990)
– Mercantile Bank of Canada Award 1982 for being the most outstanding student in the M.B.A.-LL.B. Joint Program
– Mercantile Bank of Canada Award 1983 for being the most outstanding student in the M.B.A.-LL.B. Joint Program

General practice including conveyancing, litigation, administration of estates, company matters, etc.

Mr. Pong also has experience in project conveyancing.

Mr Charles Chiu was admitted as a solicitor of Hong Kong SAR since 1981. He was also admitted as a solicitor of England and Wales in 1985, a solicitor and barrister of Victoria and New South Wales, Australia respectively in 1986 and 1989.

In February 2003, he was appointed by the Chief Executive of HKSAR as the full-time Chairperson of the Guardianship Board of Hong Kong SAR, a position he held until January 2021. During his tenure, he chaired a total of 7,318 guardianship hearings. In addition to his numerous local and international presentations on issues of mental incapacity, he is the author of two books, “Enigma of Guardianship” published in April 2019 and “Mental Capacity and Related Issues” in December 2020.
He is regarded locally and internationally as an expert in the following areas of the law and practice :-

1. mental capacity assessment
2. adult guardianship
3. medical law with regard to mental incapacity
4. court applications of committee and related orders
5. will
6. enduring ( continuing ) powers of attorney
7. advance directive and care planning including estate administration
8. contested family conflict cases over will/testamentary capacity and estate administration
9. elder abuse (including financial abuse)

He was a Notary Public, a panel arbitrator and mediator of HKIAC and Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He was the Chairman of Haven of Hope Hospital and the Board Chairman of Haven of Hope Christian Service of Hong Kong. He was also members of Hospital Authority’s sub-committees.