Clifford Chance
Contentious Commentary: Hong Kong - June 2016
13 June 2016
Please find attached the first edition of "Contentious Commentary: Hong Kong", a newsletter that provides a summary of recent developments in litigation and dispute resolution. The newsletter is produced by lawyers in the litigation and dispute resolution practice at Clifford Chance.
This edition of "Contentious Commentary: Hong Kong" covers:
- Combatting fraudulent schemes in overseas-listed securities
- Defence struck out after failure to attend Pre-Trial Review
- Need for promptness in applying for anti-suit injunction
- No derivative action possible on behalf of dissolved company
- When a judge should remove himself from trial
- Court considers when court proceedings should be stayed in favour of arbitration
- Inspection of company records under the Companies Ordinance
- When mainland judgments can be set aside in Hong Kong
- Costs where petitioner withdraws winding-up petition
- Jail for husband, defeat for wife in court application
- How strike-out principles are applied to conspiracy claims
- Strict approach to applications for leave to serve out of jurisdiction
