Selwyn Yu SC

余承章資深大律師

Year of Call 

2010 Inner Bar (Hong Kong)

1990 (Hong Kong)

1989 (England & Wales)


Fellow of Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (2002)

Member of the Honourable Society of Middle Temple (1989)

LLB(Hons), Cardiff University(1988)


Year of Call 

2010 Inner Bar (Hong Kong)

1990 (Hong Kong)

1989 (England & Wales)


Fellow of Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (2002)

Member of the Honourable Society of Middle Temple (1989)

LLB(Hons), Cardiff University(1988)

Deputy Chairman, Telecommunications Appeal Board, (24 June 2022 - Present)

Member, Consumer Council (2021 – present)

Chairman, Consumer Legal Action Fund (2012 – present)

Deputy Convenor, Barristers Disciplinary Tribunal (2021 – Present)


Selwyn has been in private practice since call in 1990. All along he practises principally in the criminal law with heavy focus in white collar crime, fraud, commercial crime and regulatory offences. 


He is regularly instructed to conduct the private-funded defence in cases of a wide spectrum of different magnitude from the lengthy and complex to the short and intricate. He is well regarded for being able to deliver sound, strategic and tactical advice at all stages of an investigation as well as before and during the trial process.


Having extensive experience in criminal defence work, Selwyn is a popular silk as he is easy to get on and pleasant to work with.  With his energetic and vibrant enthusiasm in the cases he commits, he is frequently entrusted with high profile cases that have attracted significant media attention.


HKSAR v Chiu (DCCC 320 of 2022)

(Acted in defence of a lady health practitioner in the provision of treatments to cancer patients in defence of various offences of practising medicine without registration) 


HKSAR v Tse & Yip (DCCC 681 of 2020)

(Acted in defence of a family business and its directors and shareholders accused of millions of tax evasion)


Re Cheung & Hui (Deceased) (CCDI 333 & 334 of 2016)

Acted for the Management Company in the Death Inquest of 2 Fire Services Officers during firefighting the No.4 Fire Alarm at the Amoycan Industrial Centre Fire Incident that lasted for 4 days in 2016


HKSAR v Mak (DCCC 657 of 2019 )

Acted in defence of a CEO charged with offences of Conspiracy to Defraud a listed company and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange


HKSAR v Cheung (Tsz hong) [2021] 5 HKLRD 248; [2021] HKCA 900

Appeal against conviction on the validity of the guilty plea entered against the appellant in the absence of admissible factual basis.


HKSAR v Chu (DCCC 1092 of 2018)

Acted in defence of doctors of Hospital Authority charged with Conspiracy to Commit Misconduct in Public Office


HKSAR v Leung (ESCC 9087-9091 of 2019)

Acted in defence of a practising solicitor charged with multiple offences of Insider Dealing under SFO s.291


HKSAR v Chan (DCCC 761 of 2018)

Acted in defence of a successful business-lady in allegation of bribery of a public official, the ex-deputy secretary of the Economic Development and Labour Bureau under the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance


HKSAR v RYU (ESCC 3677 of 2016) 

(Acted in defence of Korean practising doctors providing medical advice on liposuction charged with offences of practising medicine without registration in a hotel in Hong Kong)


SFC v Cheng [2019] HKCFA 17; [2018] 4 HKLRD 612; CACV 95/2017

Acted for the Securities and Futures Commission in an appeal before the Court of Appeal and Appeal Committee of the CFA on the issues of the proper standard of proof in Market Misconduct Proceedings


HKSAR v Hong Kong Broadband Network Ltd [2018] 2 HKLRD 1049; HCMA 624 of 2015

Acted on appeal in respect of constituent elements of the offence of “Direct Marketing” under s.35A of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance


HKSAR v Lau [2018] HKCA 59; CACC 38 of 2017

Appeal against conviction and sentence of a senior police inspector convicted of the offence of Assault Occasioning Bodily Harm in the widely-publicized “7 Police Officers Assailants” in the Occupying Central saga


HKSAR v Tsang [2018] 2 HKLRD 186; HCCC 484 of 2015

Acted in defence in the re-trial of ex-Chief Executive on accusation of a section 4 bribery offence of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance, Cap. 201


HKSAR v Chan (2017) 20 HKCFAR 264; FACC 15 of 2016)

Acted in the appeal for the executive director of Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited against conviction over elements of offences of Misconduct in Public Office and section 4 & 9 offences of the Prevention and Bribery Ordinance, Cap. 201


SFC v CL Management Services Ltd. & Another [2016] 19 HKCFAR 611; HCMA 382 of 2014

Elements and ingredients of the offence under s.114 of Securities and Futures Ordinance.


Matthews v Secretary for Justice [2015] HKEC 2299

Appeal against refusal of discharge of Restraint Order on suspected proceeds of indictable offence.


HKSAR v Lau (DCCC 19 of 2015)

Acted in defence for a senior bank officer charged with multiple offences of “Soliciting and Accepting a bribe” of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance, Cap. 201


HKSAR v Kwok & Ors. (HCCC 98 of 2013)

Acting in the defence team of the Co-Chairman of a listed company against multiple offences of Conspiracy to Commit Misconduct in Public Office and Bribery with the Chief Secretary of the Hong Kong Government.


HKSAR v Au Yeung [2014] 3 HKLRD 346; CACC 36 of 2013

An appeal on the scope of protection of informant under s.30A of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance where the prosecution was based on complaint made by the defendant who reported as an informant to ICAC against recipient of bribe.


HKSAR v Ma & Ors. (HCCC 323 of 2012)

Acting for the family members of an investor in defence of offences of Bribery and Money Laundering in return for secret insights into the warrant markets from a former Deutsche Bank managing director.