JASON H.C.CHEUNG
張皓程大律師

Tel 22185999
Fax 26066338
Email jasoncheunghc@gmail.com

Professional Qualifications

2024Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)
2023Admitted to the Bar of New York
2020Called to the Bar of Hong Kong

Education

2022LL.M. in Asian Economic Integration and Law, Waseda University, Japan
2019Postgraduate Certificate in Laws, University of Hong Kong
2018Juris Doctor, University of Hong Kong
2016Bachelor of Arts (with honors in International Studies and Political Science), summa cum laude, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Appointments

2025Part-time Lecturer, Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan)
2024Judge, Intercollegiate Negotiation Competition (Tokyo, Japan)
2024, 2025Arbitrator, Vis Japan Pre-moot (Kyoto, Japan)
2022, 2023, 2024Arbitrator, Vis East International Commercial Arbitration Moot (Hong Kong)
2022, 2023Tutor, Doshisha Oxford Merton College Advocacy Network Initiative
2020Referee, China: An International Journal, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore
2019, 2025Reviewer for manuscript, Japanese Journal of Political Science

Scholarship

2021Reserved Scholarship for Successful International Examinees of Waseda University
2016Phi Beta Kappa
2012-2016Dean’s High Honors List
2015Ohio State Scholarship for The Washington Center Academic Internship Program
2014Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) scholarship for study abroad at Sophia University, Japan
2013The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS)

Practice Profile

Jason joined Albert Luk's Chambers after completing his pupillage with Mr C.Y. Li S.C., Mr Jon K.H. Wong, Mr Tony Ko and Mr Albert K.C. Yau. Jason accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ work. Additionally, he is a foreign counsel for Yodoyabashi & Yamagami LPC in Japan.

Jason has knowledge in a wide range of areas including international arbitration, property disputes, land compulsory sales, adverse possession, contentious probate litigation, etc. In recent years, he has frequently been instructed to provide legal opinions on Hong Kong law to Japanese clients and attorneys, particularly in cases involving cross-border elements with Japan. He has also been engaged to deliver advice and opinions for use in foreign jurisdictions, including proceedings in Taiwanese and Japanese courts.

During his law school studies, Jason represented the University of Hong Kong to compete in the Willem C. Vis (East) Moot and the Intercollegiate Negotiation Competition in Tokyo (advocating in Japanese), and built a keen interest in international arbitration.

While engaging in a broad practice in international arbitration and cross-border litigation (particularly in Hong Kong and Japan), Jason is also a keen academic writer in the interaction between international relations and public international law, and Tokugawa village law. He is currently a part-time lecturer at Doshisha University in Kyoto, teaching public international law subjects.

Jason is fluent in English and Chinese and has a business level knowledge of Japanese (passed JLPT N1).

Selected Cases

  • Assisted Singaporean and Japanese counsel to represent a Japanese pharmaceutical company in a SIAC and Singapore seated international arbitration (on-going)
  • Assisted Japanese attorneys to represent a Japanese pharmaceutical company in a JCAA Tokyo seated domestic arbitration in Japan
  • Represented Japanese client in trial to defend a trademark cancellation action in Hong Kong and to settle related affidavit (on-going)
  • Instructed by Japanese attorney to draft pleadings and provide legal advice on cross border property dispute litigation that have concurrent jurisdiction and governing law of HK and Japanese law
  • Instructed by Taiwanese attorneys to provide expert opinion on Hong Kong law for the use in litigation in the Court of Taiwan
  • Instructed by external Japanese attorneys to provide legal opinion on Hong Kong company law for the use of Japanese legal proceedings
  • DCCC 552/2020 HKSAR v Leung Man-yi & 5 others: led by Mr. Yiu-Leung Cheung, represented one of six defendants in a conspiracy to arson trial
  • STCC 3584/2020 HKSAR v Lam Ho Ming and 2 others: as sole advocate for 2nd Defendant defended three charges of unlawful assembly, criminal damage & face covering regulation
  • KTCC 835/2020 HKSAR v Yim Cheuk Kin and 9 others: as sole advocate represented one of the 10 defendants against a charge of unlawful assembly.

Publications

  • Multinationals and Human Rights in Asia in Studies in Private International Law – Asia Series, (co-editor with Yasuaki Takeuchi) (Publisher: Hart Publishing) (forthcoming, expected in 2025)
  • "A reflection on Japan’s "Justice Affair Diplomacy": Dispute resolution and international commercial arbitration as a ticket or as a shield from the Far East to the World" (co-author with Dr. Kazuaki Nishioka) The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, accepted as one of the papers for the Special Issue - Japan's Diplomacy: Between the West and the East and the paper workshop held at Leiden University in The Hague on 24 to 25 April 2025. (currently under peer review with expected publication in 2026)
  • "2024 JCAA Arbitration Days Recap Day 2: Flexible Harmonization and Cooperation Towards Best Practices", Kluwer Arbitration Blog on 17 December 2024, (co-author with Yuko Nitta and Bruno Savoie)
  • (https://arbitrationblog.kluwerarbitration.com/2024/12/17/2024-jcaa-arbitration-days-recap-day-2-flexible-harmonization-and-cooperation-towards-best-practices)
  • "Revisiting the Cliche of Community Service Order in Hong Kong: Non-Custodial Sentence in the Turmoil" (co-author with Ching Him Ho) in Global Journal of Politics and Law Research: Volume 11, No. 1 (2023) (DOI: https://doi.org/10.37745/gjplr.2013/vol11n16692)
  • "Gang Up with the Right Gangs – A Comparative Study on the Law of Unlawful Assembly in Hong Kong and Japan" in Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal: Volume 7, No. 3 (2021)
  • Contributor, Lexis Practical Guidance – Private Client (2021)
  • Contributor, Lexis Practical Guidance – Corporate (2021)
  • "At the Edge of the Empire: Mapping the Law of Hong Kong’s Paradiplomacy" in The Hague Journal of Diplomacy: Volume 15, Issue 3 (2020) (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/1871191X-BJA10035)