Biography
Jacqueline Law was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 2013 and is a member of Des Voeux Chambers (DVC) in Hong Kong. She has also passed the Greater Bay Area Legal Professional Examination in 2023.
Jacqueline was awarded the Bar Scholarship and Charles Ching Memorial Scholarship in 2013. She has since been recognised as a Band 3 Leading Junior for Commercial Disputes 2023 and Band 2 Leading Junior for Family and Private Client 2023 by Legal 500 (Asia Pacific HK Bar).
Jacqueline is developing a broad civil and commercial practice in line with Chambers’ profile with experience in arbitration-related matters, trust and probate, land and company and insolvency matters. She is currently a member of the Standing Committee on Mainland Affairs and the Committee on Arbitration of the Hong Kong Bar Association. She is also a contributing editor of Hong Kong Civil Procedure.
Jacqueline’s arbitration practice includes being led in a 5-day international arbitration on a US$16m put option claim (2023), a 8-day virtual international arbitration on a RMB 100m claim in a joint venture dispute (2022), and a 10-day virtual international arbitration arising out a US$1 billion partnership dispute (2020). She also acted as sole advocate in a 5-day arbitration on breach of shareholders’ agreement in 2015, and two HKIAC arbitrations for a law firm on outstanding legal fees from former clients in 2018. She has also appeared led in two Emergency Arbitrations in 2020 and 2018, as well as various court proceedings concerning interim measures in aid of arbitration, stay of proceedings in favour of arbitration, post-award mareva injunctions and enforcement of awards.
She has experience in handling contested applications involving summary judgment, stay of proceedings, examination and production orders in the context of liquidation, removal of executor and estate accounts, specific discovery and expunge of documents, charging order, striking out, expert evidence and injunctions.
Before pupillage at DVC, Jacqueline graduated with a First in LLB from the University of Hong Kong, ranking second in her year. Following this, she received the highest marks in the PCLL Litigation Stream and the matrimonial practice course. She went on to obtain the BCL from the University of Oxford (ranking first in her Commercial Remedies class) with the support of the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship for Overseas Studies.