Case Highlights22 September 2023
Where a bankruptcy order has been made and the Official Receiver/trustee in bankruptcy has been appointed, how should their fees and expenses be dealt with if the bankruptcy order is later set aside following... Click here to read more
18 September 2023
In AIM Global Holdings Ltd. & Ors. v Chien Kun Allen & Rising Dragon Global Ltd. [2023] HKCFI 1126 the Court of First Instance, in rejecting all of the Plaintiffs’ claims and giving judgment... Click here to read more
01 September 2023
Introduction In The Hong Kong Polytechnic University v Rehabaid Society [2023] HKCA 956, the Plaintiff and the Defendant entered into a contract which gave rise to a contractual licence, and which... Click here to read more
23 August 2023
In Perusahaan Perseroan v. Trevaskis and Ors (“The Star Centurion”) [2023] HKCFA 20, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (“CFA”) considered the scope of the limitations of liability... Click here to read more
28 July 2023
Under the Euroclear or Clearstream system, companies which issue so-called “global notes” do not have direct contractual relationship(s) with the ultimate beneficial investors in those... Click here to read more
27 July 2023
Recently the full bench of the Court of Appeal in its criminal jurisdiction had the opportunity to consider four unprecedented renewed applications for bail pending the hearing of their appeals against... Click here to read more
19 July 2023
Introduction In our previous article “A Modern Answer to An Age-Old Problem: A Bank’s liability for acting on an authorised signatory’s wrongful payment instructions”, we discussed... Click here to read more
06 July 2023
Introduction Generally speaking, a party is bound by his pleaded case at trial and cannot rely on points or facts which have not been pleaded. While this is certainly the case at a trial, the traditional... Click here to read more
04 July 2023
A. Introduction This is the third article in the series on the differences between Hong Kong and English construction laws. In the second article, the authors explored the differences between the two regimes... Click here to read more
20 June 2023
As foreshadowed in his decision last month (Nuoxi Capital Ltd & ors v Peking University Founder Group Company Limited [2023] HKCFI 1350 (the “PUFG Case”)), on 15 June 2023, Harris J... Click here to read more
