Geoffrey Booth

Geoffrey has been practising law in Hong Kong since 1979 and has acted for clients in a range of major cases as a criminal defence, family and divorce lawyer.

He believes it is essential to understand the stress that Court proceedings place on clients and to assist them as practically and effectively as possible.

His representation of clients has involved all levels of Courts for criminal, family and civil litigation matters, including the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong, and the Privy Council in England.

He has appeared for clients in military courts-martial, the Market Misconduct Tribunal, Immigration Tribunal, Lands Tribunal, Licensing Tribunal and Obscene Articles Tribunal, and in professional and statutory disciplinary hearings.

Cases have encompassed a great deal of international work including extradition proceedings, international Restraint Orders and Letters of Request, and attending at proceedings overseas for taking of evidence.

He has helped clients with investigations by the SFC, ICAC, CCB, Police, Customs & Excise, Immigration Department and other statutory bodies.

He was awarded Higher Rights of Audience for Criminal proceedings in 2013 and is listed in international guides as one of Hong Kong’s leading white collar crime lawyers and commercial mediators.

Geoffrey has been mediating for over 20 years in Commercial and in Family matters, and has joined Hong Kong’s Collaborative Law Practice Group, which assists clients to settle disputes by a collaborative process to reach a settlement.

Present and Former Professional Positions:

• Member of Law Society of Hong Kong; member of the Mediation Committee of HKIAC; member of the Criminal Law Procedure Committee; former Chairman of the Criminal Law & Procedure Committee and of the Law Society ADR Committee; former member of Human Rights Committee and of the Practitioner’s Affairs Committee
• Former Chairman of the Commercial Mediation Committee of HKIAC
• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Member of International Bar Association
• Honorary Lecturer of Hong Kong University
• Member of Solicitors Disciplinary Panel
• Member of the Joint Tribunal (Hong Kong Bar Association and Hong Kong law Society)
• Member of Higher Rights of Audience Assessment Panel
• Member of many professional working parties on legislative and practice issues