PROFILE

Lily has an extensive practice in matrimonial matters.  

She has advised and represented all types of parties, including husbands, wives, unmarried couples, and parents or other third-party interveners. Her experience covers all types of family disputes related to children's arrangement and matrimonial finances.  She also advises on complex issues such as trusts and the implications of nuptial agreements.

She understands the complexities in cross-border marriages and advises on and handles litigations in the related fields, including jurisdictional challenges, parallel proceedings, forum disputes, permanent and temporary relocation, as well as the abduction or return of children to and from Hong Kong.  
 

She has an increasing engagement in mediation. 

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SELECTED CASES 

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• MPY v. WYC [2025] 1 HKLRD 425 (Re: leave to appeal; transfer of proceedings)
   

• EBS v. NTCD [2024] 2 HKLRD 881 (Re: appeal; ancillary relief award; application of the compensation strand) (led by Ms. Anita Yip S. C.)
   

• LCC v. LTLA  [2024] 2 HKLRD 1177 (Re: appeal; ancillary relief; gambling debts; wanton spending) (led by Ms. Anita Yip S. C.)
   

• MCYP v. CWTW [2023] HKCA 1196 (Re: appeal; third party discovery; companies' documents) (led by Ms. Anita Yip S. C.); [2023] HKFC 198 (Re: committal; non-compliance of the order for legal costs provision)
   

• Cheung Wing Kuen, Samuel v. Ip Chui Sum [2022] 3 HKLRD 709 (Re: Partition Ordinance; sale of matrimonial home)
   

• LCYP v. JEK [2019] HKCFI 1588 (Re: trial; ancillary relief; nuptial agreement) (led by Ms. Anita Yip, S.C., and Mr. Eugene Yim)
   

• LLC v. LMWA & Anor [2017] HKFLR 433 (Re: trial; preliminary issue; ownership of jointly owned property with the father-in-law) (led by Ms. Anita Yip, S.C.); [2018] HKFLR 349) (Re: variation of costs for trial) (as sole counsel)
   

• CLS v. LPKP  [2018] 1 HKLRD 786; [2018] HKFLR 92 (Re: specific discovery of bank statements) (led by Ms. Anita Yip, S.C.)
   

• ZFY v. SCHC [2022] HKCA 794 (Re: appeal; relocation) (led by Ms. Anita Yip S. C.); [2022] HKFC 73 (Re: leave to appeal; relocation) (sole counsel); [2022] HKFC 24 (Re: trial; relocation) (sole counsel)
   

• BMC v. BGC Formerly Known As WCY [2020] HKCA 317  (Re: Hague Convention) (led by Ms. Anita Yip S. C.)

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• ZJW v SY [2017] HKFLR 612; [2017] HKFLR 409 (Re: jurisdiction; substantial connection with Hong Kong) (led by Mr. Benjamin Yu, S.C. and Ms. Anita Yip, S.C.)