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Hong Kong Court of Appeal confirms liquidators' wide-ranging powers of discovery

24 May 2018

In another decision that will be welcomed by insolvency practitioners in Hong Kong, the Court of Appeal has affirmed that a liquidator's powers of discovery should be widely interpreted. Recent amendments to the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap 32) (CWUMPO) mean that similar questions of interpretation are unlikely to arise again in practice, but the Court's attitude to assisting liquidators is certainly something to note and adds to the body of recent case law helpful to Hong Kong practitioners.

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