Contact Information: Tel: (852) 2696 1044 Fax: (852) 3163 4439 Email: swati.jhaveri@cuhk.edu.hk Office: Room 318, 3rd Floor, Faculty of Law Mong Man Wai Building The Chinese University of Hong Kong Sha Tin, NT, Hong Kong SAR

Professor Swati Jhaveri

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Swati Jhaveri has previously practised law as a Solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong specialising in general areas of civil litigation and international commercial arbitration. Her academic areas of specialisation and research currently include administrative law, the law of obligations, in particular the law of torts and equity & trusts, and comparative human rights law. Swati Jhaveri is also a non-practising Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Education and Professional Qualifications

• BA Law (Oxon)
• BCL (Dist.) (Oxon)
• PCLL (HKU)
• Trainee solicitor and Associate Solicitor, Allen & Overy, 2001 - 2005
• Solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong (non-practising)
• Solicitor of England & Wales (non-practising)
• Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, March 2004 to April 2005
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, April 2005 to present

Awards

• Ralph Chiles CBE Award for the Best Performance in Comparative Human Rights 2006, Bachelor of Civil Law, University of Oxford
• British Chevening Scholarship, 2005 by the British Council Hong Kong and Foreign & Commonwealth Office for postgraduate study at the University of Oxford (Bachelor of Civil Law, 2005-2006)
• Ray Hughes Memorial Prize, March, 2004 for best examination results for the Associate Entry Course for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, East Asia Branch

• Administrative Law
• Law of Obligations (Tort, Equity, Contract and Restitution)
• Human Rights Law

Research Projects

• Sources of legal accountability of public authorities
• Model for the development and expansion of the law of torts
• Enumeration and enforcement of civil rights in Hong Kong

Representative Publications

Case report and commentary: Pepsi-Cola Canada Beverages (West) Limited v Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, Local 558 & Ors [4 2003 Commonwealth Human Rights Law Digest 1] (Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003)

Case report and commentary: Ka Lam Law & Ors v R & Anor [4 2003 Commonwealth Human Rights Law Digest 123] (Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003)

Contribution to Section 2(a) (Money Lenders Ordinance) of Chapter 6 (Credit and Security) in Chitty on Contracts: Hong Kong Specific Contracts (Hong Kong & London Sweet & Maxwell, 2004)

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