In this seminar, Ms. Karon Monaghan QC will share her experience in advocating human rights and equality in the courtroom. She will elaborate on the significance of the cases in which she is involved in the context of improving protection for the LGBT community. Ms. Monaghan will also share her thoughts on how Hong Kong should progress in the context of LGBT rights.

Date:            8 May 2019 (Wednesday)

Time:            6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Venue:      Warren Chan Moot Court, The CUHK Graduate Law Centre, 2/F Bank of America Tower, Central

About the speaker:

Ms. Karon Monaghan QC is well recognised in the profession for her expertise in human rights, discrimination, equality and employment law. She is instructed by local human rights firm Daly & Associates to represent the Applicant in Leung Chun Kwong v the Secretary for the Civil Service and others to fight for the fair treatment of the LGBT community in Hong Kong.  Apart from the Leung case, Ms. Monaghan has been counsel in many of leading cases, including Rodriguez v Minister of Housing of Gibraltar [2009] UKPC 52, Preddy and Hall v Bull [2013] UKSC 73, Wilkinson v Kitzinger [2006] HRLR 36 and M v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2006] 2 AC 91. Ms. Monaghan has also contributed to the common law jurisprudence by regularly lecturing and writing on equality and discrimination law.  She is the author of Monaghan on Equality Law (2013) as well as a contributor to the UK White Book sections on discrimination.