Isabel was called to the Bar in 2013.  She is recognised as Leading Junior in Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2025 in Administrative and Public Law.

She graduated with a first-class LLB and with distinction in her LLM.  She was awarded the Bar Scholarship in 2012.  Her practice has an emphasis on public law, family law, and regulatory matters.  She also has an MA in competition law with distinction in the examination component, and was seconded to the Competition Commission.

She has appeared in all levels of Courts, including representing parties as sole counsel in the Court of Final Appeal.

Recent highlights of Isabel’s experience in public law include: NH v TCAB [2024] 6 HKC 765 (treatment of the principle of res judicata in administrative decision-making); NF v R [2023] 5 HKLRD 58 (a breakthrough for same-sex parents, granting a declaration of “parentage at common law” to a same-sex couple); AA v BB [2021] 2 HKLRD 1225 (landmark case granting rights to a separated same-sex couple who had co-parented children during their relationship); and Kwok Cheuk Kin & Anor v Director of Lands & Ors (2021) 24 HKCFAR 349 (judicial review of the Small House Policy, also involving numerous ancillary public law issues including public interest litigation: [2021] 3 HKLRD 411, and security for costs in the judicial review context: (2021) 24 HKCFAR 220).