Expert-led Witness Preparation
Meet the Founders
​We are Evident Witness Preparation (HK) Ltd, a Hong Kong company formed by senior Hong Kong barristers to deliver the kind of witness preparation now well-established world-wide, here in Hong Kong. Our founders are leaders in Advocacy training in Hong Kong.
Nigel Kat SC
Barrister & Trainer
Nigel is ranked a Leading Silk (Band 1) for Administrative and Public Law and for Commercial Disputes by Chambers and Partners Global 2024 and Greater China Region 2024 and in the 2024 Legal 500 where he is also a Leading Silk for Commercial Disputes, Labour and Employment. Chambers’ Asia-Pacific Guide reported that he combines being a “good strategist and advocate” with a “direct and no-nonsense approach”.
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Nigel is a vastly-experienced advocacy trainer. For almost thirty years he has taught the examination and cross-examination of witnesses. He was a founding member of the Advocacy Training Council of Hong Kong. He regularly teaches and examines advocacy at all levels for the Bar and the ATC in Hong Kong and overseas. He has taught at Keble.
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Called to the English Bar in 1977, and both the Hong Kong and New York Bars in 1984, he was consistently ranked as a “Leading Junior" by the directories in Hong Kong before taking Silk in 2015. Nigel has advised on, appeared in and arbitrated disputes on the law of all 3 jurisdictions and enjoys a broad practice across a range of civil and commercial litigation, including insurance, banking, international trade and domestic contracts, professional negligence, employment, crime and public law.
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Nigel has been an arbitrator for many years. He has conducted references and appeared as counsel in international commercial arbitration held under a variety of rules, including ad hoc, UNCITRAL, ICC and HKIAC. He became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) in 1992, a Chartered Arbitrator in 2007 and an adjudicator in 2008. He is on the panel of arbitrators of the HKIAC, CI Arb, ICC HK, HKInstArb and APRAG.
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Nigel was accredited as a mediator by CEDR in 2009 and is an experienced mediator.
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The Hong Kong Bar Association has appointed him to chair its Disciplinary Tribunal. He has also served as a member of the Inland Revenue Board of Review.
Azan Marwah
Barrister & Trainer
Called to the Hong Kong Bar in 2012, Azan was appointed as a Judicial Assistant to the Court of Final Appeal in the same year. Upon returning to practice in 2013, he was awarded the Middle Temple Advocacy Scholarship and resumed his practice with a particular focus on public law and family litigation, especially in cases involving child custody, ancillary relief, inheritance and probate, adoption, judicial review, election petitions, discrimination, wardship, and international child abduction.
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He is ranked by Chambers & Partners in its list of leading Family/Matrimonial Barristers, The Legal 500 in its lists for Asia Pacific - Hong Kong Bar, Administrative & Public Law and Family & Private Client, and by Doyle’s in its list of Leading Family & Divorce Law Barristers. He has also had extensive experience as a criminal advocate up to and including the Court of Final Appeal.
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Azan is an author and editor of several leading legal texts and is regularly asked to lecture in law, history and medical ethics. He is currently appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong and acts as the General Editor and Author of the Hong Kong Family Court Tables. He also teaches advocacy for the Hong Kong Advocacy Training Council.