Profile

Gordon Chan is a Hong Kong barrister specialising in medicolegal work, criminal litigation, and technology law. He is instructed in death inquests, disciplinary inquiries, medical and healthcare regulation, criminal trials and appeals (including as a leader in the Court of Final Appeal), and disputes turning on science, digital evidence, or emerging technology.

He is a member of Alfred K C Fung Chambers, Hong Kong’s leading medical set. Before coming to the Bar, he trained as a biochemist at HKUST, worked in Quality & Safety at Princess Margaret Hospital, and completed training in the Department of Justice, where he prosecuted trials, worked on appeals, medicolegal cases and human rights matters, and advised enforcement agencies on food, drugs and healthcare prosecutions.

That diverse background — laboratory science, healthcare administration, and criminal prosecution — allowed him to handle cases at the intersection of medicine, crime and technology.

Practice Highlights

Gordon is familiar with both the clinical and administrative sides of medical institutions as a former hospital administrator, a holder of a biochemistry degree and the Diploma in Legal Medicine of the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine, Royal College of Physicians of London. He has sat through multi-week jury inquests for the Hospital Authority, and he is instructed to appear before the Medical Council of Hong Kong for the Department of Justice.

On the criminal side, time inside the Prosecutions Division means he has experience evaluating a binding-over proposal, a plea, or a decision to withdraw. He now makes those representations from the defence.

On technology, he writes and is interviewed on issues that have not yet settled into doctrine — prediction markets and the Gambling Ordinance, vaping prosecutions and immigration status, AI in digital health, cybersecurity and “white-hat” hacking. 

His practice is increasingly cross-border. He advises foreign nationals in Hong Kong and abroad (including Australia, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mainland China) and completed a 2025 attachment at Sreenivasan Chambers LLC in Singapore under the Law Society of Singapore × Hong Kong Bar Association exchange, shadowing Sreenivasan Narayanan SC in medicolegal, trust and white-collar work.