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The Plaintiff, a lawful visitor of a fitness centre operated by the Defendant, slipped, and fell, while walking towards the shower room area of the said fitness centre, leading to injuries in the left wrist.

As readers will be aware from our alert on 30 March 2011, the UK Supreme Court handed down a landmark judgment that day in the case of Jones v Kaney [2011] UKSC 13 (the judgment).

The recent decision of the Court of Final Appeal in John Wiley & Sons UK2 LLP & Anor. V. The Collector of Stamp Revenue upheld restrictions in the availability of intra-group stamp duty relief and complicates corporate...

The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal has ruled that the "no consent" regime, under which the Hong Kong police can withhold consent to move suspect funds indefinitely without a court order, is constitutional.

The Hong Kong Court has recently handed down a judgment concerning the operation of the Mainland Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Ordinance (Cap. 597) ("MJREO")...

Brightoil Petroleum (Holdings) Limited is a Hong Kong-listed company engaged in oil trading and marine transportation. Its shares have been suspended from trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange ...

Hong Kong's family court has activated its first suspended sentence for contempt, marking a watershed moment in enforcement of court orders. This landmark case examines how a solicitor's repeated breaches of non-molestation undertakings led to immediate imprisonment, while also addressing the complex custody implications that followed.

In a recent judgment handed down by Hong Kong district judge H.H. Judge Andrew Li, the learned Judge commented that Plaintiff's solicitors who blindly pursue a hopeless personal injury claim without a reasonable cause of action ...

The Arrangement on Reciprocal Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters by the Courts of the Mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will come into effect simultaneously in Mainland China and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on January 29, 2024.

The Court of Appeal has upheld a "springboard" injunction (albeit reduced in scope) in the latest case to deal with the issue of unlawful "team lifts".

Mayer Brown, on behalf of its gaming clients, successfully resisted an application for specific discovery in K&L Gates v. Navin Kumar Aggarwal and Others [2019] HKCFI 702 ("Decision").

In June 2019, the China Internet Network Information Center ("CNNIC") extended the limitation period to file a .cn complaint under the cnDispute Resolution Policy

In one of its first major rulings, Hong Kong's Competition Tribunal (the "Tribunal") has ruled against 10 decorating contractors for serious anti-competitive conduct

In Re Fullerton Capital Limited (in liquidation) [2025] SGCA 11, the Singapore Court of Appeal has affirmed the importance of a debtor's registered office (in this case in the BVI) as its centre of main interests ("COMI").

On 25 June 2021, the Hong Kong Court of Appeal (CA) handed down its judgment in the Securities & Futures Commission (SFC)'s appeal against three former executive directors of EganaGoldpfiel (Holdings) Ltd, which is now in liquidation.

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) prevailed in a judicial review application filed against the regulator in AA & EA v. The Securities And Futures Commission [2019] HKCFI 246 (the "Decision").

In November 2016, the Market Misconduct Tribunal (MMT) found that AcrossAsia Limited (AAL)...

In the case of Tan, Shaun Zhi Ming v. Euromoney Institutional Investor (Jersey) Ltd [2022] HKDC 622 DCEO4/2017, the District Court (DC) ruled in favour of an employee claiming sex discrimination because his employment was...