Earl Deng read Law at the University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam College on a Prince Philip Scholarship Bursary and was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 2008, joining Chambers in the same year.

Earl has an active civil law practice involving advisory and advocacy work in complex commercial, contractual, chancery, and intellectual property disputes and is known as a specialist advocate for public and administrative law matters and sexual minority rights.

Earl has regularly appeared in all levels of the superior courts in Hong Kong.  A selection of his recent cases involve Silver Universe Ltd v China Times Securities Limited [2019] HKCFI 153, 834 injunctive and tracing measures to unwind alleged fraudulent share non-recourse loan arrangements; award of aggravated damages for defamatory remarks by an incorporated owner Tam Heung Man v Incorporated Owners of Lung Poon Yuen [2019] HKDC 822; and Navarro Luigi Recasa v The Commissioner of Correctional Services [2018] 4 HKLRD 38 where a pre-operative transgender prisoner challenged her allocation to a male prison wing and being subject to strip-searches by male prison offers.

Earl is also a regular contributor to a large volume of practitioner publications, and has authored original chapters and volumes, including Chitty on Contracts (Hong Kong Specific Edn.), Employment Law and Practice in Hong Kong, Discrimination Law in Hong Kong, and various volumes of Halsbury Laws of Hong Kong.

Committee Member, Committee on Civic Education, Hong Kong Bar Association (2009 – 2018)

Committee Member, Committee on Constitutional Affairs & Human Rights , Hong Kong Bar Association (2010 – 2016)

King George V School (1993 – 2000)

MA (Cantab), BA (Cantab), Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge (2002-2005)

PCLL, University of Hong Kong University (2006)