Profile

Albert accepts instructions for both advocacy and advisory work and has been instructed on matters covering different areas of law.  His practice covers Crime, Family, Intellectual Property Rights and Unfair Trade Practices. 

 

Before practising at the Bar, Albert was the Assistant Commissioner of the Customs and Excise Department in charge of the entire investigations and intelligence of the Department.  Naturally, his specialisation is Customs and related matters, particularly intellectual property crime and unfair trade practices under the Trade Description Ordinance where he dedicated over 10 years of the career in Customs to these aspects of enforcement work.  Being a Certified Fraud Examiner, he also has extensive experiences in areas of fraud, financial crime, bribery, corruption, money laundering and the confiscation and forfeiture of assets. 

 

Recent cases in which he has been instructed have included general criminal matters, copyright infringement, Trade Mark counterfeiting, unfair trade practices, family and immigration matters.

Albert is the Honorary Legal Advisor of the Hong Kong Chinese Civil Servants’ Association.

He is a regular guest speaker at local and overseas conference and seminar on fraud, intellectual property rights and unfair trade practices held for academia and practitioners.

He is a part-time lecturer on “Crime and Criminal” at the School of Professional and Continuing Education, University of Hong Kong.

He was the Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Chief Executive of the HKSAR from 2001-2008.

Albert was interviewed by Hong Kong Lawyer and appeared in a front page story entitled “Face to Face with Albert Ho, CMSM, Customs and Excise Department, Assistant Commissioner (Intelligence and Investigation)” in July 2014.