Philippa Hewitt

External publications

• 'Parental choices over vaccinations and how it relates to custody in Hong Kong' - Jan 2022, co-author

• 'Hong Kong and Singapore: Relocation in the time of Covid ' - June 2021, co-author

• 'Enforcement and recognition of orders between Hong Kong and the Mainland' - May 2021, co-author

• 'Court in the middle - A comparison of child removal applications in England and Wales, Hong Kong and Singapore' - Apr 2021, co-author

• 'Third Party Funding in Hong Kong' - Apr 2020, co-author

• 'Exodus: Planning on leaving Hong Kong with children in tow?' - Mar 2020, co-author

• 'Challenging times: The effect of an economic downturn on divorce settlements' - Mar 2020, co-author

• 'Why Mediation Should be Used to Resolve Child Custody Disputes in Hong Kong', Hong Kong Lawyer - Jan 2020, co-author

• 'The Hong Kong Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents Family', LexisNexis - 2019

• 'International Trust and Divorce Litigation, 3rd edition', Jordan Publishing - 2019, contributor

• 'Family Law and Practice in Hong Kong, 3rd edition', Sweet & Maxwell - 2018, General editor and contributor

• 'Prenuptial Agreements, Cohabitation Agreements and Children', Lexis Practical Guidance Private Client Lexis - 2018-2019

• 'Chinese Divorce cases in an International Context', International Family Law Journal (Issue 2), LexisNexis - 2017

• 'International Comparative Legal Guides - Family Law 2020, Third Edition - Hong Kong Chapter', Global Legal Group - Sept 2019

• 'Why mediation should be used to resolve child custody disputes in Hong Kong', Hong Kong Economic Times - Aug 2019

• 'Alternative ways to get protection in case you don't want to get married', SCMP - March 2019

• 'Ageing Hong Kong needs better laws to protect the elderly and dementia sufferers', SCMP and Hong Kong Economic Times - March 2019

• 'Rights to civil partnership couples in Hong Kong and England', SCMP - Sept 2018

• 'Surrogacy in Hong Kong: All you need to know about the risks and legal ramifications involved', SCMP - March 2018

• 'Custody of Children in Relationships Across the Border', The HK Lawyer - March 2018

• 'Thorne v Kennedy: prenups case in Australia, what effect, if any, on Hong Kong?', STEP - Nov 2017

• 'Prenuptial Agreements', Singapore Prestige Magazine - June 2017

• 'Shared Care and Control in HK, Singapore and E&W' - April 2017

• ''Of care and control', Business Times Wealth - June 2017

• 'International Comparative Legal Guide - 2017, 2018, 2019

• 'Non-matrimonial assets', STEP - 2016

• 'Prenuptial agreements', Business Times, Singapore - Dec 2015

• 'Similarities and differences in family law in Hong Kong, Singapore and England', Family Law Journal - 2015

• 'New Trust Law', Offshore Management Magazine - Feb 2014

• 'Family Law and Practice in Hong Kong, 2nd edition', Sweet & Maxwell - 2014, General editor and contributor

• 'Prenuptial agreements in relation to the international family and its wealth planning', Family Matters on-line - March 2014

• 'Hong Kong Family Law Reports', LexisNexis - 2005-2018

• 'International Trust & Divorce Litigation', Jordan - 2013, contributor

• 'Children's Dispute Resolution Hearing', The Lawyer - Nov 2012

• 'Atkins Hong Kong Court Forms', LexisNexis - 2012

• 'Legal Eye', South China Morning Post, contributor

• 'The Hong Kong Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents Family', LexisNexis - 2012

• 'Family Law and Practice in Hong Kong, 1st edition', Sweet & Maxwell - 2011, General editor and contributor

• 'Family Law Manual', Sweet & Maxwell - 1998

Admissions

• Hong Kong SAR, 1991

• England and Wales, 1990

• Associate mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre, 2017-2019

Education

• Guildford College of Law, Law Conversion and Solicitors Final Examination

• St Andrews University, M.A. Medieval and Modern History

• Headington School, Oxford

Languages

• English

Memberships

• Law Society of Hong Kong

• Hong Kong Family Law Association

Key dates

• Year joined: 2012