Although Zhang, a stockbroker, has been a shareholder of various public listed companies in China for about 4 years, he was only invited to his first shareholders' meeting in December 2004.

In the United Kingdom, there appears to be an emerging trend of recognizing the implied anti-avoidance term in employment contracts.

It is very common for employers to install some forms of employee monitoring devices in the work place, e.g. hidden video cameras, surveillance software in respect of the usage of email and access to the Internet as well as the recording of telephone calls.

It is established employment law that neither gratuitous commission nor discretionary commission is to be included in the calculation of holiday pay or annual leave pay. But that still leaves the question of contractual commission i.e. commission to which an employee is contractually entitled. Is contractual commission to be included in the calculation of holiday pay and annual leave?

Mediation is set to become entrenched as a primary means of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in Hong Kong with two practice directions coming into effect on 1 January 2010, namely, Practice Direction 31 on Mediation (PD 31) and Practice Direction 3.3 on Voluntary Mediation in Petitions Presented Under Sections 168A and 177(1)(f) of the Companies Ordinance (Cap.32) (PD 3.3).

Section 31B of the Hong Kong Employment Ordinance provides that an employee employed for a minimum of 24 months under a continuous contract will be entitled to severance payment if he is dismissed by reason of redundancy or where the employee is laid off.

In order to obtain finance from banks or lenders, Hong Kong companies will often create a charge over their assets by way of a fixed or a floating charge. In Hong Kong, like in most common law jurisdictions, a charge is a fixed charge if it is a charge over a specific or definite property (e.g. real property or machinery) and the company is restricted as to how it deals with those assets.

If you are an employer in Hong Kong and your employees work 5 day week, whenever there's a public holiday on a Saturday, do you give them the following Monday off? If not, you may have breached the employment laws in Hong Kong.

A recent Court of Appeal judgment in the case of Koon Wing Yee and Chan Kin Shing Sonny vs Insider Dealing Tribunal in which our firm acts for the 2nd Appellant, has ruled that the Hong Kong Insider Dealing Tribunal’s power to summon or require an implicated person to give evidence as unconstitutional.

Hong Kong is an internationally well-known "Shoppers' Paradise" and its tourism industry has always been important to its economy.

Parallel import means the import of goods from elsewhere for resale in Hong Kong. Different from pirated or counterfeited goods, they are manufactured by or with the authority of the intellectual property rights owners (eg trademark or copyright owner) and are legitimately produced and marketed abroad.

On 30 November 2004, the Foreign Investment Industrial Guidance Catalogue 2004 was promulgated jointly by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce ("the New Catalogue").

As we enter 2004 and the Year of the Monkey, China is facing increasing pressure from the rest of the world to revalue its currency and to remove other perceived artificial benefits to exporters.

It may seem odd that Hong Kong : Asia’s business hub a diverse modern metropolis and a city of live has no remedy for individuals experiencing private racial discrimination.

A fifth supplement ("Supplement") to the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement ("CEPA") has been signed between Hong Kong and the Central Government of the People's Republic of China ("PRC") on 29 July 2008.

The National People's Congress of China adopted the landmark Property Law on 16 March 2007 after considerable debate and controversy surrounding its drafting. The new law will come into effect on 1 October 2007 and is regarded as one of the most complicated legislative processes in the country's history and the first to cover individual assets other than the Constitution of China.

The main parts of the Companies (Amendment) Ordinance 2003 will come into effect on 13 February 2004 followed by certain important amendments to the Listing Rules of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Listing Rules") on 31 March 2003.

Recently, the unauthorized registration of company names in Hong Kong comprising others’ trademarks has become an increasing concern of trademark owners with operations in Mainland China. Such Hong Kong companies are known as shadow companies.

Anyone who has been involved with litigation will understand the hassles of the process of discovery. Discovery is a continuing obligation of the parties to litigation that takes place after pleadings (e.g. Statement of Claim, Defence, Reply) have been closed.

Listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange by way of introduction received some attention recently as a result of the suspension of trading in the shares of Asian Citrus Holdings Ltd, China’s biggest orange plantation just 2 hours after trading on the opening day and in June 2010, the listing of London listed insurer Prudential PLC where Prudential added another trading venue in Hong Kong without raising additional funds as no new shares were issued in Hong Kong.