Tony Ko is among the first batch of practitioners listed on both the Sports Arbitrators Panel and the Sports Mediators Panel under the Pilot Scheme on Sports Dispute Resolution, administered by the AALCO Hong Kong Regional Arbitration Centre (AALCO-HKRAC). The Pilot Scheme, launched by the Department of Justice and supported by the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau, is designed to provide the sports sector with a fair, efficient, and accessible mechanism for resolving sports

In Luen Shing Steel Iron Engineering Works Ltd v Man Yip Kau and Lui Tsz Kau [2026] HKCFI 1259, the Court upheld the existence of a long‑running oral joint venture and ordered an account of all the income and profits of the joint venture.   The Defendants’ case was that they had entered into an oral joint venture agreement to bid for and carry out steel works in all of Luen Shing’s construction sites, using the company as the vehicle and sharing profits and losses equally. T

In HKSAR v. Chuang Yun Lien (DCCC 153/2025), Ms Ferrida Chan represented a defendant charged with dealing with funds totalling USD 27,447,737.08 through a bank account.  The Court accepted the defence’s submissions that, although the documents produced by the defendant did not correspond to every individual transaction in the account, they were nonetheless, taken as a whole, capable of supporting a business background that was plausibly true. The Court also accepted the submi