Areas of Service
Yap & Lam offers a wide range of legal services, they are mainly:
Civil and Criminal Litigation
- Providing advice on criminal law and procedure
- Attending Police Office, ICAC and other law enforcement agencies with clients
- Entering into plea bargaining
- Application for bail
- Conducting defence
- Conducting appeals
- Conducting mitigation
- Commercial disputes and litigation
- Breach of Contract
- Property Litigation and rental dispute
- Bankruptcy and liquidation
- Employment dispute
Family and Matrimonial
- Divorce
- Preparation of separation deed
- Application for ancillary relief
- Injunction against abduction of children
- Domestic violence injunction
- Declaration of status of marriage
- Registration of customary and modern marriages
- Enforcement proceedings
- Custody of children
- Property distribution
- Other proceeding
Property and Conveyancing
- Sale and purchase of landed property
- Mortgage
- Redemption of deeds
- Examination of title of deeds
- Drafting of deeds
- Tenancy
- Building management
Wills, Probate and Administration
- Advice on succession law and procedures
- Drafting wills
- Application for grant of probate/letters of administration
- Challenging/defending validity of wills
- Claiming/defending entitlements of illegitimate children and concubines
- Taking/defending actions for improper administration of estate
Civil Celebrants of Marriage
- Witness the signing of notice of intended marriage
- Obtaining Certificate of Registrar
- Preparing marriage certificate and other necessary documents
- Conducting wedding ceremony
China-Appointed Attesting Officers
- Declaration of Marriage
- Declaration in relation to application of Conjugal Relationship / Declaration of Notarised Marriage
- Declaration of Inheritance
- Declaration in relation to Applying for Relatives / Spouse / Children for residing in Hong Kong
- Declaration in relation to Applying for Accompanying Lying-in Woman in Hong Kong
- Declaration in relation to Applying for Adoption
- Declaration of Chinese into English Translations
- Power of Attorney
- Deed or Instrument of Gift
- Certificate on Marriage registration
Notary Public
- Notarization of local documents to be used outside Hong Kong including personal, commercial and litigation documents