[1] His practice spans the fields of fraud/regulatory, criminal, public, human rights, media and information, extradition/MLA, sports,[2] asset recovery, police and civil law.
[6] Educated at United World College of the Atlantic and London School of Economics, Tim Owen was called to the Bar in 1983.
In 2016, Tim Owen defended Rurik Jutting, a British banker who confessed to torturing and killing two Indonesian women in HK, arguing diminished responsibility.
[7][8] The trial evidence included videos of torture Jutting recorded on his phone.
[10][11] In late 2022, Jimmy Lai's request to instruct Owen as part of his defense team was appealed by Hong Kong Secretary for Justice Paul Lam and the Department of Justice multiple times.