Equal Opportunities & Discrimination

We act in claims under the four Hong Kong discrimination ordinances — the Sex Discrimination Ordinance, the Race Discrimination Ordinance, the Disability Discrimination Ordinance, and the Family Status Discrimination Ordinance — and in the wider body of equality work that surrounds them, including sexual harassment, sexual orientation and gender identity matters, and constitutional challenges where the discrimination ordinances do not reach. The firm acts for individuals bringing claims and for institutions, including schools, on policy, training, complaints handling and the conduct of internal investigations.

We have written about discrimination as well as practised it. The firm's managing partner is a co-editor of the chapter on discrimination in Halsbury's Laws of Hong Kong (2nd edition, Volume 22, 2022 Reissue), the standard reference work on Hong Kong law. We have acted in discrimination matters before the Equal Opportunities Commission, in the District Court Equal Opportunities Action, and on judicial reviews where statutory remedies are incomplete or unavailable.