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In a further development to cross-border insolvency cooperation between Hong Kong and Mainland China, the Hong Kong Court has issued a letter of request to ...

On behalf of China City Construction (International) Co., Limited (In Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation) ("CCCI") and Dingway Investment Limited (In Compulsory Liquidation) ("Dingway")...

A court in Hong Kong has recently handed down significant custodial sentences (imprisonment) on two defendants who deliberately made or caused to be made false statements in court documents required to be verified by Statements of Truth.

In Interush Limited & Anor v The Commissioner of Police, the Commission of Custom & Excise and Mak Wing Yip Cyril, Superintendent of Police [2019] HKCA 70,

Under the Ordinance, only the person or persons who "owns" or "own" not less than 90% (or 80% in certain situations) of the undivided shares in a lot may apply for order for compulsory sale.

The quantification of damages for the loss of use of a ship damaged in collision where her owner maintains and substitutes a reserve ship for his damaged ship came up for determination.

For directors, the winding up of a company could be judgment day when their past misdeeds come back to haunt them.

Given Hong Kong's status as a special administration region of China, there are in place special arrangements for the mutual service of judicial documents between the two jurisdictions.

Commercial practicality and business common sense may take a backseat to the clear wording of contract documents, according to the Court of Appeal (CA) in a recent judgment regarding complex measurement rules (MR) in sub-contracts ...

In this Court of Appeal case of Xu Yi Jun v GF Capital (Hong Kong) Limited (CACV 502 & 577 / 2019), the Court considered whether an employer can withhold a bonus payment after the payment due date for reasons of ...

In Zhang Hong Li & Ors v DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited & Ors, FAMV 126/2018 (26 April 2019), the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal granted leave to the defendants to appeal against the judgment ...

Section 13 of the Married Persons Status Ordinance Cap 182 (MPSO) of Hong Kong creates a statutory trust in favour of beneficiaries who are the spouse or children of the life insured.

Maeda Corporation and China State Construction Engineering (Hong Kong) Limited v Bauer Hong Kong Limited

In Dos Santos v Unitel SA, the English Court of Appeal clarified the threshold test of a "good arguable case" for granting worldwide freezing injunctions should be equivalent...

As such, the Court directed the present Judgment be referred to the Department of Justice and Law Society of Hong Kong for investigation.

Following the recent judgment of Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal in the case of Mariner International Hotels Ltd v Atlas Ltd, the term ‘practical completion’ in Hong Kong building contracts is now arguably a legal term of art which means a state of affairs in which the works have been completed free from patent defects other than ones to be ignored as trifling.

Under the Mental Health Ordinance, Cap. 136 (the "MHO"), the court is empowered to make such orders as it thinks fit for, among other things...

The Court of Appeal in Hua Tyan Development Limited v. Zurich Insurance Company Limited [2012] 5 HKC 117 unanimously held that the insurer should not be presumed to have knowledge of matters that it could have discovered from public resources.