Robin McLeish
Robin McLeish
Robin McLeish
Call: 1997 (HK); 1997 (England & Wales)

Education

  • BA (Hons), PPE, Queen's College, Oxford, Hastings Scholar
  • MA (Oxon)
  • CPE in Law
  • Bar Examination of England and Wales

Contact

Email:mcleish@templechambers.com
Tel:(+852) 2523 2003

Practice Areas

  • Commercial
  • Company
  • Confidentiality / Privacy
  • Disciplinary
  • Discrimination
  • Employment
  • Injunction / Contempt
  • Insurance
  • Public Law / Judicial Review
  • Personal Injury / Medical Negligence
  • Professional Liability
  • Appointments And Public Office

  • Legal Adviser to the Veterinary Surgeons Board
  • External Examiner for the University of Hong Kong Postgraduate Certificate in Laws - Employment Law and Practice
  • Publications And Articles

  • Hong Kong 'country' report in Global Encyclopaedia of Data Protection Regulation (Kluwer Law International)
  • Discovery and Data Protection (2001) 31 HKLJ 49
  • Co-author with Professor Graham Greenleaf, Professor of Law, UNSW, of Chapter on Hong Kong in Global Privacy Protection The First Generation (Edward Elgar, 2008)
  • Hong Kong Personal Injury Service, LexisNexis, Division III, Damages for Fatal Injuries, updating editor
  • Profile

    General civil practice with an emphasis on commercial litigation, employment law, including discrimination and privacy law aspects thereof, professional negligence, and personal injuries and medical negligence cases.

    Experience

    Commercial
  • Beijing Risun Wealth Coal and Coke Chemical Industry Co Ltd v Himadri Chemicals & Industries Ltd & Anor HCMP 3305/2013 10.9.2015
  • Good Earth Agricultural Co Ltd v Novus International Pte Ltd & Anor [2007] 1 HKLRD 685; HCCL 74/2002 25.1.2007
  • Company
  • Tsoi Chik Sang Lawrence & Ors v Tasty Catering Group Ltd & Ors HCMP 812/2017 12.9.2017
  • Veron International Ltd v RCG Holdings Ltd & Anor HCMP 3210/2013 20.7.2015
  • Confidentiality / Privacy
  • Union Knopf (HK) Ltd v Marcel Sossnowski & Anor DCCJ 680/2010 12.4.13
  • Disciplinary
  • Dr Leung Shu Piu v The Medical Council of Hong Kong FAMV 17/2014 6.6.2014
  • Employment
  • Pratt, Jon Vaughan Merrick v Barclays Capital Asia Ltd CACV 123/2017 2.3.2017
  • Campbell Richard Blakeney-Williams & Ors v Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd & Ors (2012) 15 HKCFAR 261
  • Injunction / Contempt
  • XY, LLC v Jesse Zhu & Anor HCMP 869/2014 4.7.2018
  • Sino-Panel Trading Ltd & Anor v Guangxi Xunxiang Wood Import and Export Ltd HCMP 1698/2012 19.3.2013
  • Insurance
  • China Taiping Insurance (HK) Co Ltd v Tang Tze Wai & Anor [2013] 5 HKC 320 CA
  • Richfine Development Ltd T/A Keng Fai Jewellery v Hugh Rupert Rivington CACV 257/2008 22.6.2009
  • Public Law / Judicial Review
  • AIA Insurance Ltd v Appeals Tribunal of the Hong Kong Federation of Insurers & Ors [2017] 5 HKC 83
  • Christian Jose Lucien Masset v Secretary for Justice for and on behalf of the Director of Environmental Protection HCAL 41/2015 13.09.2018
  • Personal Injury / Medical Negligence
  • Catrin Caryl Anderson by her father and next friend Richard Paul Anderson v Dr Derek Lo Chak Cheung HCPI 460/2001 30.10.2013
  • Yang Yee Man, the Administratrix of the Estate of Lam Lok Kin, deceased v Leung Hing Hung [2014] 3 HKLRD 194, [2013] 1 HKC 286
  • Young v Dr Ho Chun Kit Peter [2012] 3 HKC 146
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