Cheung Tat Ming v Council of the Law Society of Hong Kong [2025] HKCFI 5383

The Council of the Law Society's decision under section 9A(1) of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance (Cap. 159) to refer a complaint against one of its own serving members to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal is, on the facts, not vitiated by apparent bias or procedural irregularity, because the statutory scheme separates the Council's referral function from the independent Tribunal that adjudicates, so the referral does not breach natural justice merely because the Council is referrer, complainant and supposed victim.