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In RZ3262019 Limited (in Liquidation) v Zhou Ying Investments Group Limited and others [2025] HKCFI 4350, the Hong Kong Court considered key issues concerning...

Does it excuse misconduct in the eyes of a securities regulator if the company officer did not personally profit from and receive misappropriated funds? John Lee of Tanner De Witt explains that the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong ("SFC") will still enforce.

In Walton v Pickerings Solicitors & Anor [2023] EWCA Civ 602, the Court of Appeal overturned the High Court's decision and held that the Court has no power to backdate a claim form and must seal it

A landmark Court of Final Appeal judgment has provided welcome clarity on the question of prosecutions for unlawful assembly and rioting, ruling that the doctrine of "joint enterprise" does not apply but stressing that anyone involved –

The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal ruled this week that the government was in breach of fundamental rights under the Hong Kong Bill of Rights by failing to provide a framework...

In recent weeks, courts in England and Hong Kong have taken the opportunity to set out the serious consequences that follow from deliberately breaching disclosure orders made in the context

In Paloma Co. Ltd. v. Capxon Electronic Industrial Co. Ltd [[2018] HKCFI 1147], the Hong Kong Court of First Instance rejected a public policy challenge ...

After the liquidators are discharged from office in the liquidation of a company, the company may ask the liquidators to return the documents kept by them as liquidators.

The Hong Kong District Court recently departed from its previous approach to dealing with Section 25 Employees' Compensation (EC) Recovery Claims. Specifically, EC legal costs will not be subject...

The Hong Kong Court of First Instance has ruled twice in recent weeks that it does have the jurisdiction to grant a vesting order under section 52(1)(3) Trustee Ordinance (Cap.29).

A construction contract may not need to be in writing but there still needs to be a contract.

Gall recently acted for the Plaintiff in Hong Kong's first telephonic hearing in Cyberworks Audio Video Technology Limited v Mei Ah (HK) Company Limited & Ors which was a milestone in the Judiciary's

In Decision Inc Holdings Proprietary Ltd v Garbett [2023] EWCA Civ 1284, the Court of Appeal considered whether the High Court erred in finding that the sellers of a company had breached a warranty...

Unfair prejudice petitions are a means for minority shareholders to seek redress against a shareholder said to be in control of the company, on the basis that the latter has caused the company's...

Hong Kong's District Court (the "Court") in 庄裕安 v 关淑馨及另二人 [2018] HKDC 1589 struck out the Applicant's discrimination claim against the Respondents, who were the judges who dismissed the Applicant's appeal...

A recent decision by the High Court in Hong Kong could have a significant impact on independent financial advisers ("IFAs") who may have previously believed they were safe from being held responsible for losses due to market conditions.

In the recent decision of CNG v G & Ors [2025] HKCFI 3598, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance upheld an arbitral award, dismissing an unusual application to set it aside.

Without prejudice ("WP") privilege protects a party's genuine attempt to settle a dispute by preventing communications made in that connection from being admitted as evidence in court.