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Robert Lee SC began his legal career in the mid-80’s at the then Hong Kong Attorney General’s Chambers. He prosecuted all types of criminal offences at all level of courts, including, before 1997, appearances in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He was once seconded to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority to advise on monetary and banking laws, and published a loose-leaf Monetary and Banking Laws of Hong Kong in 1997.
He took silk in 2008, retired from the Department of Justice and entered private practice in 2012, and has acted as sometime deputy High Court judge.
His decades of legal practice cover general crimes including murder, manslaughter, rape, and robbery. He also focuses on commercial crimes (conspiracy to defraud, deceptions, thefts etc.), corruption offences, money laundering, asset recovery, Securities and Futures Commission (“SFC”) related cases, and administrative law. He provides general advice for both lay clients and public authorities; conducts trials, appeals; plea negotiations; and mitigations for sentence; handles confiscation proceedings, and conducts judicial reviews on constitutional matters. The path to justice is a winding one. He takes a tough stance, and is used to dealing with tough cases, whether high- profile, complex, or apparently straight forward. It is clear to him that a fair case result demands fair-minded prosecution, and strong professionalism in defence. Given the inherent fallibility of human, including legal, institutions, the common law has rightly premised true criminal justice on an asymmetry between the prosecution and the defence: that the prosecution must prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt, with the bench enforcing strict criminal standards to procedural and evidential rules, in the true common law spirit.