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Join us for the roundtable seminar “Judicial Seeds of Innovation: How Leadership in Courts Catalyzed Blockchain Justice in Hong Kong,” featuring the Honorable Mr. Justice Coleman, the modern-day Lord Denning activist judge who presided over the landmark Hwang Joon Sang & Anor v. Golden Electronics Inc. & Ors [2020] HKCFI 1084 case; Joshua Chu, the practitioner who pioneered the innovative legal solutions in that same case; and Professor Steven Gallagher, providing the academic perspective on digital technology and law.

This session explores how Mr. Justice Coleman’s groundbreaking decision to permit service of legal documents via secured data rooms, which revolutionized civil procedure in Hong Kong, laying the foundation for digital litigation which is eventually applied in cases against blockchain entities and enabling tokenized injunctions for on-chain asset recovery. Attendees will gain exclusive insights from the judicial, practitioner and academic viewpoints on advancing fintech justice in the evolving regulatory landscape.

About the Speaker:

The Honourable Mr. Justice Russell Coleman, SC, serves as a Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong. Prior to his appointment to the bench in 2019, he was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1991 and elevated to Senior Counsel in 2006. He was appointed a judge of the Court of First Instance in 2019. Since 2020, he has been the judge in charge of the Constitutional and Administrative Law list. 

Noted for his bold decisions, his Lordship has presided over landmark cases spanning fintech innovation, human rights, and administrative law.

Mr. Joshua Chu is a qualified lawyer, law lecturer, and technologist specializing in fintech, digital assets, and Web3. He currently serves as a law lecturer at HKU SPACE, Co-Chair of the Hong Kong Web3 Association, legal advisor to Women in Web3 Hong Kong and Senior Consultant at Prosynergy.

Since the late 2010’s, Joshua has been at the forefront of law and technology intersections, from leading the successful defense in Hong Kong’s first crypto litigation; modernizing civil procedure with digital service via data rooms in Hwang Joon Sang & Anor v. Golden Electronics Inc. & Ors; contributing to early RWA tokenization work in 2022-2023; co-advocating the first civil action against JPEX in 2024; and designing and deploying the tech for Hong Kong’s first tokenized injunction in Worldwide A-Plus in 2024.

Beyond practice, he teaches on virtual asset laws, pen various academic articles on various industry platforms. In 2025, Joshua Chu was recipient of the LexisNexis 40 UNDER 40 and ELITE awards.

Professor Steven Gallagher is the Professor of Practice in Law, Associate Dean (Teaching and Student Experience), CUHK LAW.

Steven teaches equity and trusts, property law, and a course on art, antiquities, cultural heritage and the law. In September 2023, Steven began teaching a new course on digital technology and law. Steven has presented over 200 continuing professional development courses for solicitors in Hong Kong on many topics associated with property. Steven’s research interests include equity and the law of trusts, cultural heritage law, Chinese custom and law, and innovative ways to teach law including using superhero films.

*CPD credits are available upon application and subject to accreditation by the Law Society of Hong Kong (currently pending).

Register here to attend the seminar on or before 10 December 2025, 12:00noon (Hong Kong Time).