Isabel Tam
Barrister at Denis Chang’s Chambers
Call: 2013 (HK)
Recognised as Leading Junior in Legal 500 (2026, Administrative and Public Law & Family and private client) and ranked in Chambers and Partners Greater China Region 2026 (Administrative & Public Law: The Bar and Family/Matrimonial: The Bar), Isabel’s practice focuses on family law, public law, and regulatory matters. She has extensive experience in general matrimonial finance and preservation of assets, as well as particular expertise in complex legal issues arising out of LGBTQ/modern families and the dissolution of families with cross-border elements. She has acted as sole counsel in the Court of Appeal, Court of First Instance, District Court, Magistrates’ Courts, and the Court of Final Appeal.
Isabel has been involved in landmark family law cases concerning modern families and LGBTQ rights in Hong Kong, K v The Secretary for Justice [2025] 6 HKC 466 on the constitutionality of the authorities’ birth registration system for parentage in the context of same-sex couples. She represented the non-biological parent in AA v BB [2021] 2 HKLRD 1225, securing guardianship and joint custody for a same-sex couple. She was involved in NF v R [2023] 5 HKLRD 58, a case resulting in a novel type of relief, a declaration of “parentage at common law” for a same-sex parent. Her expertise in family law is augmented by her experience in other related areas including in particular tax (Koo Ming Kown & Anor v The Commissioner of Inland Revenue [2021] 3 HKLRD 642 on liability for additional tax), mental incapacitated persons, and trust claims.
She is a contributor to the current editions of Hong Kong Civil Procedure and Bullen & Leake & Jacob’s Hong Kong Precedents of Pleadings.
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Ted Chan
Barrister at Denis Chang’s Chambers
Call: 2019 (HK)
Ted has a broad civil and criminal practice. He has been regularly instructed to advise and handle probate, family and mental health cases. He has extensive experience in handling a wide range of issues in family cases, including jurisdiction, forum, custody, parentage, adoption, ancillary relief, injunctions. reciprocal enforcement of foreign judgments, etc. Meanwhile, Ted continues to develop a wide range of practice areas including civil and commercial disputes.
Ted is also a CEDR accredited mediator and has regularly been engaged in mediations of a wide variety of disputes, such as contract, restitution, matrimonial, nuisance, defamation, building management, etc.
Recently, Ted was one of the co-speakers at a CPD seminar on the Advance Decision on Life-sustaining Treatment Ordinance, which has come into effect on 31 July 2026.
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Gabriel Ho
Barrister at Denis Chang’s Chambers
Call: 2025 (HK)
Gabriel joined Chambers in 2025 after completing his pupillage with Mr. Martin Hui SC, Mr. Eric Leung, Mr. Simon Wong, and Ms. Isabel Tam.
Prior to commencing pupillage, Gabriel was a Judicial Assistant at the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, where he assisted with a diverse range of appellate cases. He obtained his LLB from University College London and his PCLL from the University of Hong Kong. He represented both universities in external mooting competitions, including the International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot.
Gabriel is developing a broad practice and accepts instructions across all of Chambers’ practice areas. He has experience in matrimonial proceedings, company and commercial disputes, personal injury, public law, and unjust enrichment. He has also been engaged by a statutory regulator to act as an independent legal adviser to the disciplinary committee in disciplinary proceedings.
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