Clifford Chance
Contentious Commentary: Hong Kong - December 2016
19 December 2016
This edition of "Contentious Commentary: Hong Kong" covers:
- Successful claim in long running property dispute
- Court of Appeal upholds need for speedy finality in arbitral enforcement
- Court of Appeal rejects oath takers’ bid to re-take the pledge
- Bank allowed to debit client account after email fraud
- Two significant decisions in cross-border insolvency
- Court rules no common intention in loan agreement
- PRC defendant loses contract case in his absence
- Hong Kong company law overrides jurisdictional concerns
- No obligation for bank to pursue debtors before guarantor
- Creditor’s petition can be re-amended to include subsequent debts
- Court of Appeal lays down the law for litigants in person
