Employees compensation in practice

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  • Speaker
    Mike LAM, H.Y.
  • Duration
    3 hours
  • CPD points
    3 points
  • Date of publication
    1 August 2024
  • Language
    English

Course description

The course highlights the legal principles and updates for solicitors to handle employees’ compensation cases nowadays. The legal issues under the Employee’s Compensation Ordinance (Cap. 282) would be discussed.

Legal principles

  • Jurisdiction
  • Procedural: time limit; application to file an action out of time
  • Legal analysis: employee or independent contractor; accident; causation; arising out of and in the course of the applicant's employment
  • Quantum: non-fatal; fatal


Speaker's biography 

Mike LAM, H.Y. was called to the Bar in 2013. He has a mixed practice with a focus on personal injury, employees’ compensation, contractual disputes and commercial litigation. He is also a member of Legal Aid Panel on these cases. Mike has also advised multiple PRC corporations in relation to their business in Hong Kong, including compliance with SFC rules. Mike also has experience in handling disputes in property, building management, trusts and civil contempt.  

On the criminal side, Mike is experienced in representing clients in criminal proceedings at different levels of courts. He is also regularly instructed by the Government to appear as counsel-on-fiat and in disciplinary hearings.  

In the public arena, Mike is currently a lay assessor of the Medical Council of Hong Kong (“MCHK”) and a lay member of the Preliminary Investigation Committee (I) of MCHK.  

Mike graduated with First Class Honours in LLB and was placed on Dean’s List during Years 3 and 4 of his undergraduate studies. After PCLL, Mike studied LLM in University of Cambridge.  

Mike is the current secretary of Practice Committee of Personal Injuries, Hong Kong Bar Association. He is the current contributing editor/ author of the sections of “Legal Aid” and “Health and Safety” of “Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong”. Mike had worked as a tutor for CPE and PCLL students.