What's Happening Events

Humanities and Law Open Day (January 2026)

Exploration of Professional Remits

• Busting Trust Myths in 30 Minutes Ten common misconceptions

  17 Jan 2026 (Sat) | 11:00 - 12:00

  Type of Event

  Hybrid (In-person & Online Attendance)

  Venue

  Room 311, HKU SPACE Learning Centre, 3/F Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, Admiralty, HK (access via the shopping arcade escalators through Exit A, Admiralty MTR Station)

  Online Platform

  Facebook Live @ HKU SPACE LAW Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/hkuspacelaw/ AND Instagram Live @ HKU SPACE LAW Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/hkuspacelaw/

  Speaker

  • Professor William Swadling (MA (Oxon), LLM (Lond), Professor of Law and the Senior Law Fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford) ;

  • Ms. Tiffany Kwong (Programme Director, College of Humanities and Law, HKU SPACE)

  Professor William Swadling

  William Swadling is Professor of Law at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. He chairs the faculty's teaching groups in Restitution, Trusts, and Personal Property. Before coming to Oxford, he held posts at a number of other universities, including University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the editor of a number of books, including The Quistclose Trust: Critical Essays. He is particularly interested in the intersection between trusts/property and restitution, and a number of his articles on this topic have been cited in the English courts, most notably in Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington LBC [1996] AC 669. He is a contributor to Halsbury's Laws of England (4th ed, reissue), and wrote the section entitled 'Property' in Burrows (ed), English Private Law (3rd ed, 2013). He is also an academic associate at One Essex Court (chambers of Lord Grabiner QC), a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and an academic member of the Chancery Bar Association.

  Ms. Tiffany Kwong

• The Way to Qualification: From Dream to Execution

  17 Jan 2026 (Sat) | 15:00 - 16:00

  Type of Event

  Hybrid (In-person & Online Attendance)

  Venue

  Room 311, 3/F, Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong (access via the shopping arcade escalators through Exit A, Admiralty MTR Station)

  Online Platform

  Facebook Live @ HKU SPACE LAW Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/hkuspacelaw/ AND Instagram Live @ HKU SPACE LAW Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/hkuspacelaw/

  Speaker

  • Mr Jacky Cao

  Mr Jacky Cao

  Mr CAO Wenkai (Jacky), Assistant General Manager of China P&I Service (Hong Kong) Ltd. He graduated with Bachelor Degree in Law (LLB) from Shanghai Maritime University, Master Degree in Science (Msc) in International Shipping and Transport Logistics from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Master Degree in Law (LLM) in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution from the University of Hong Kong, Graduate Diploma in English and Hong Kong Law from the Manchester Metropolitan University. Mr. Cao is also the holder of the CII Advanced Diploma in Insurance (ACII). Prior to joining CPI in 2019, he worked with a famous shipowner in Hong Kong SAR and handled both vessel operation and insurance claims.

• Legal seminar on how to reduce business risk

  17 Jan 2026 (Sat) | 16:15 - 17:15

  Type of Event

  Hybrid (In-person & Online Attendance)

  Venue

  Room 311, 3/F, Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong (access via the shopping arcade escalators through Exit A, Admiralty MTR Station)

  Online Platform

  Facebook Live @ HKU SPACE LAW Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/hkuspacelaw/ AND Instagram Live @ HKU SPACE LAW Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/hkuspacelaw/

  Speaker

  • Mr Fung Kin Wah, Franky (Partner Sun Lawyers LLP)

  

  Mr Fung Kin Wah, Franky

  Mr Franky Fung is a partner at SUN LAWYERS. His practice covers corporate, commercial, and trust matters. He assists clients with commercial contracts, mergers and acquisitions, equity and business transfers, legal due diligence, shareholders’ agreements, and company secretarial practice. In the area of trust law, Mr Fung advises on trust company registration and licensing, as well as trust formation.