Former feng shui master Peter Chan unveils new legal team at Hong Kong court appeal after deaths of two previous lawyers

Peter Chan Chun-chuen, the former feng shui master found guilty of forging a will of the late billionaire Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum, mounted a fresh bid to clear his name by unveiling a new legal team today.

Chan hired Briton James Wood QC and Robert Lee Siu-keung SC, a former deputy director of public prosecution from the Department of Justice and now a barrister in private practice. The two represented Chan at his hearing in the Court of Appeal this morning.

Two prominent lawyers who earlier represented Chan in his forgery case died this year.

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Barrister Andrew Kan, who handled Chan’s case in 2013, died of heart failure last month. He was 57.

According to lawyers working in the same chamber, Kan was himself a fung shui master and a geomancer. He was also one of the first ethnically Chinese barristers to appear at High Court trials.

In February this year prominent criminal lawyer Alexander King SC, who represented Chan at an early stage of Chan’s 2013 forgery trial, died of brain cancer. He was 61.