- Winner of 16th Hong Kong Outstanding Students Award (2000-2001)
- Vice-President of 16th Executive Committee (2002-2003) & External Secretary of 15th Executive Committee (2001-2002), Hong Kong Outstanding Students’ Association
Hugh Kam is a practising barrister and runs a broad based civil and commercial practice. He appears regularly in the Court of Appeal and the High Court. His clients include multiple Fortune 500 companies, state owned enterprises and governmental institutions and the claims regularly involve over HK$100M.
From 2017 to 2020, Hugh served on the Council of the Hong Kong Bar Association. He sits presently on 5 statutory tribunals, including as Chairman of the Buildings Appeal Tribunal, on the Committees of Oxfam and on the Hong Kong Advisory Council on AIDS.
Hugh obtained his B.A. in law from the University of Cambridge as a Prince Philip Scholar and his LL.M. from Peking University as a Law School Scholar. In 2018 and 2019, he was awarded scholarships from the International Bar Association and the International Association of Young Lawyers and was named by Prestige magazine as one of Hong Kong’s ’40 Under 40′.