Sir Oswald Cheungs Chambers

In 1965, Oswald Cheung set up these Chambers. He was appointed Queens Counsel in the same year, being the first Chinese to be appointed Queens Counsel in Hong Kong. Sir Oswald Cheungs Chambers is one of the oldest sets of barristers chambers in Hong Kong. There were four founding members: Oswald Cheung QC, Gerald de Basto, Charles Ching and Ronald Arculli. Early members of Chambers also included Andrew Li and Kemal Bokhary, who said in his Recollections that every founding member of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal had at one time practised from the north-east corner of the 7th Floor of Princes Building. Three out of the four had spent their early days in these Chambers. In 1986, Chambers moved to its present address on 10th Floor, New Henry House with only six members, but soon expanded. Annexes were set up on other floors of the building. Robert Tang QC, who succeeded Sir Oswald Cheung as head of Chambers in 2003, joined in 1986. After he was elevated to the bench, he ...