清洪資深大律師辦事處 One Jackson Road Chambers

Members

Memi Ng

Counsel

  • LLB — The University of Hong Kong | 1999
  • PCLL — The University of Hong Kong | 2000

Practice Profile

Memi obtained her law degree from the University of Hong Kong and was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 2000. From 2000 to 2016, she worked at the Prosecutions Division of the Department of Justice. She left the DoJ at the rank of Senior Public Prosecutor being posted to the Magistrates Court Advisory as Deputy Section Head. She commenced private practice in 2016. She has extensive experience in criminal law and coronial hearings.

Professional Appointments & Memberships

  • Deputy Magistrate — 2019
  • Deputy Coroner — 2024

Selected Cases

Coronial Hearings

  • The Taxi Driver Case (CCDI 477 of 2013) The neck of a 65-year-old taxi driver was injured during the course of arrest by the police outside Western Harbour Tunnel. He passed away a month after the incident. The jury returned a verdict of “Unlawful Killing”.
  • The Manila Tragedy (CCDI 732-739/2010) Eight Hong Kong people were killed by the hostage-taker while on board a tourist bus in Rizal Park, Manila, in 2010. Prior to the inquest held in Hong Kong, Memi was tasked by the Department of Justice to attend the Public Inquiry ordered by the Philippine President conducted at the Philippine Department of Justice in Manila.
  • The go-kart case (CCDI 162/2010) A 15-year-old British girl was killed in the course of playing go-kart in Tuen Mun. The cause of death was ligature strangulation, resulting from her scarf being entangled in the chain and sprocket of the rear axle behind the driver seat.
  • The police shoot-out case (CCDI 298/2009) A male Nepalese was fatally shot by a police constable who attended the scene upon a complaint of nuisance. The jury returned a verdict of “lawful killing”.
  • The Tree Case (CCDI 936/2010) A 19-year-old girl was fatally hit by a fallen stem of a 23-meter tall coral tree in Stanley Main Street in the summer of 2008. This tragedy had caused widespread concern over risk assessment on trees in the territories.
  • The SIP Case (CCDI 823/2008) A 40-year-old on-duty Senior Police Inspector shot himself at the chest with the issued pistol and ammunition inside his office in the Police Headquarters. It was a suicide without death-note, the cause of which remained a mystery.
  • TSUI Po Ko (徐步高) (CCDI 515/2001, 2261/2001, 373 &374/2006) These are the consolidated inquests into the deaths of TSUI Po Ko (then serving police officer), two on-duty police officers and a bank security staff, which hearing lasted two-months. 116 witnesses were called and more than 250 exhibits were produced. It had generated huge media attention and public interest.
  • PANG Chor Ying (彭楚盈) (CCDI 1241/2005) The body of the 30-year-old was found inside the flat of her ex-boy-friend, FONG Man-sang, the brother of the then Chief Secretary of Administration, four years after her death. The intriguing facts unfolded in the course of the inquest had fascinated the community of Hong Kong.