Apology Ordinance
Many people regard “sorry” as the hardest word to say, yet it has been proven to be effective in helping settle disputes. Yet, overcoming the emotional barrier to utter the…
An Introduction to Australia’s Foreign Investment Regulatory Regime
Introduction In the last 10 years, there has been a dramatic upsurge in Chinese investors’ interests in acquiring assets in Australia, notably in the areas of mining and resources, real…
Mutual Enforcement of Civil Judgments between Hong Kong and Australia
With the governments of Hong Kong and Australia kicking off the negotiations for a free trade agreement in April 2017, which aims at further strengthening the already vibrant trades between…
A Brief Note on the Passing of Arbitration and Mediation Legislation (Third Party Funding) (Amendment) Bill
The Arbitration and Mediation Legislation (Third Party Funding)
Application of Hong Kong law is no Panacea
In the ever increasing commercial intercourses between Hong Kong and Mainland China, many of the related agreements are governed by Hong Kong law instead of the PRC law, despite that…
A Brief Comparison of Insider Trading Law in Australia and Hong Kong
Introduction In layman’s terms, Insider trading is the buying or selling of a security by someone who has access to material nonpublic information about the security. Insider trading has been…
A Brief Note on Removal of Directors under Hong Kong law and Australian law
There are a lot of reasons why a director is removed from his office. These include his incompetence, his relationship with his peers and other colleagues of the company, and…
“It is not illegal, but still wrong”
Recently, a video clip about Chinese “daigous’ snapping up baby formula in Coles has gone viral in various online social media. The conducts of such daigous obviously infuriated local Aussies,…
Without prejudice letter – a shield as well as a sword in settlement negotiation
The nature and application of without prejudice correspondences are by no means strange to lawyers in common law jurisdictions. Without prejudice communication is a branch of the law of evidence.…
玛瑞瓦禁制令 – 跨境訴訟的脈衝彈
在現代的軍事上，脈衝炸彈的作用及威力無庸置疑。它可以瞬間癱瘓敵人的電子設備，使敵人喪失作戰能力。在普通法地區，馬瑞亞禁制令(Mareva Injunction)的作用實在與脈衝彈有異曲同工之妙， 因為其性質其實是一個資產凍結令 。