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Freestanding Mareva Injunctions: A Powerful Strategy For Cross-border Disputes

Withers has recently achieved a landmark success in securing a section 21M "freestanding" Mareva injunction to freeze RMB1.6 billion worth of assets in aid of ongoing proceedings in the People's Republic of China...

Hong Kong Litigation

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Withers LLP

Haldanes Successfully Represented A Defendant In An Application For Stay Of Court Proceedings In Favour Of Arbitration

In a previous article we discussed recent developments around resolving disputes through arbitration in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Litigation

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Haldanes

HK Court Grants Worldwide Mareva And Appoints Interim Receivers In Aid Of Enforcing Arbitral Awards

In 周惠明 v 挪信新能源科技 ( 南通 ) 有限公司 [2025] HKCFI 1503, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance ordered (a) that worldwide Mareva injunctions be continued...

Hong Kong Litigation

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Hong Kong Court Makes Security For Costs Order Against Mainland Parties With No Assets In Hong Kong

In Y and Another v GI and Another [2025] HKCFI 1317, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance ("Court") allowed the defendant's application for security for costs against the plaintiffs...

Hong Kong Litigation

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Overview Of Five Recent Arbitration Cases

Hong Kong Litigation

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Tanner De Witt

HK Court Relies On Deemed Service Clause To Dismiss A Setting-Aside Application To Enforce An Arbitral Award

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Legal Update: Anti-Suit Injunction Restraining A Defendant In A Hong Kong Court Action From Continuing Proceedings It Commenced In The People's Court Of Beijing

Hong Kong Litigation

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Tanner De Witt

Legal Update – Launch Of The Immigration Facilitation Scheme For Persons Participating In Arbitral Proceedings

Hong Kong Litigation

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Tanner De Witt

Director Stand-off: Does A Director Have Standing To Bring Proceedings Alleging A Breach Of Company's Articles?

Hong Kong Litigation

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Harneys

Government Issues Model Adjudication Documents

Hong Kong Litigation

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Legal Update: Rights vs. Interests – English Decisions Not Followed In In Re Aoyuan Group Limited [2025] HKCFI 310

Hong Kong Litigation

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Tanner De Witt

"Good Arguable Case" – Threshold For Granting Freezing Injunctions Clarified

Hong Kong Litigation

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Harneys

The Role Of International Arbitration In Voluntary Carbon Market Disputes

Worldwide Litigation

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Norton Rose Fulbright Hong Kong

Insolvency And Arbitration: A Landmark Judgment In Sian Participation Corp v Halimeda International Ltd [2024] UKPC 16

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Norton Rose Fulbright Hong Kong

Freestanding Mareva Injunctions: A Powerful Strategy For Cross-border Disputes

Hong Kong Litigation

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Withers LLP

Changing Demographics And Ageing Workforces In The Asia Pacific Region

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Lewis Silkin

會計及財務匯報局調查

Hong Kong Accounting

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Haldanes

Private Equity Comparative Guide

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Implementing AI Guidelines In Hong Kong

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Ius Laboris

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Arbitrability – Stay Of Proceedings In Favour Of Arbitration Falcon Insurance v Bing Lee [2023] HKCFI 1129

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The Hong Kong Court Discharges Service Out Of The Jurisdiction Of A Tort Claim

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Hong Kong Court Lifts Stay Of Proceedings For Spent Arbitration Agreement

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CASE ANALYSIS: Gunga v Sonangol [2022] EWHC 1372 (Comm)

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CASE ANALYSIS: Gunga Shipping Co NV v Sonangol Shipping Angola (Luanda) Ltd

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Hong Kong Court Stays Proceedings Even When They Are Not Covered By An Arbitration Agreement MAK V LA [2022] HKCFI 285

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Kabab-Ji SAL (Lebanon) V Kout Food Group (Kuwait) [2021] UKSC 48

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Arbitration — Stay — Arbitration Clause — Loan Agreement — Action For Dishonoured Cheque (T v W)

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Second Agreement Concerning Amendment To CEPA Agreement On Trade In Services To Be Implemented On 1 March 2025

In 2003, Mainland China and Hong Kong signed the "Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement" ("CEPA") to open up the China market for Hong Kong goods and services.

Hong Kong Media & IT

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Haldanes

Freestanding Mareva Injunctions: A Powerful Strategy For Cross-border Disputes

Withers has recently achieved a landmark success in securing a section 21M "freestanding" Mareva injunction to freeze RMB1.6 billion worth of assets in aid of ongoing proceedings in the People's Republic of China...

Hong Kong Litigation

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Withers LLP

Haldanes Successfully Represented A Defendant In An Application For Stay Of Court Proceedings In Favour Of Arbitration

In a previous article we discussed recent developments around resolving disputes through arbitration in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Litigation

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Haldanes

HK Court Grants Worldwide Mareva And Appoints Interim Receivers In Aid Of Enforcing Arbitral Awards

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Fake Legal Authorities – AI Hallucination Or Professional Negligence?

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"Battle Of The Forms" In The Hong Kong Construction Industry

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Hong Kong Court Makes Security For Costs Order Against Mainland Parties With No Assets In Hong Kong

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Overview Of Five Recent Arbitration Cases

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Tanner De Witt

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Court Procedure

Legal Update: Anti-Suit Injunction Restraining A Defendant In A Hong Kong Court Action From Continuing Proceedings It Commenced In The People's Court Of Beijing

On behalf of China City Construction (International) Co., Limited (In Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation) ("CCCI") and Dingway Investment Limited (In Compulsory Liquidation) ("Dingway")...

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Tanner De Witt

First JPEX Judgement By A Hong Kong Court In Favor Of Customers

On 29 October 2024, the Hong Kong District Court issued the judgment of the first legal action (Chan Wing Yan and Another v. JP-EX Crypto Asset Platform Ltd and Others [2024] HKDC 1628) against JPEX...

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K&L Gates LLP

The Court Of Final Appeal Revisits The Approach Of An Appellate Court In Magistracy Appeals

On 3 April 2024, the Court of Final Appeal (CFA) (the highest court in Hong Kong) handed down its judgment in HKSAR v Hui Lai Ki [2024] HKCFA 7 clarifying the correct approach to be adopted...

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Tanner De Witt

Managing IP In Conflict Zones, An IP Lawyer Weighs In

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Recent Decisions On Compulsory Sale Applications In Hong Kong In Relation To 100% Owned Lot And Calculation Of Ownership Threshold

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Hong Kong Court Of Final Appeal Clarifies A Bank's Liability For Transferring Customer Funds In Breach Of Its Quincecare Duty Of Care Before Unauthorised Closure Of The Account

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Herbert Smith Freehills

Litigate Or Arbitrate: The Continuing Debate

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International Arbitration Comparative Guide

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Security For Costs (Video)

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會計及財務匯報局調查

會計及財務匯報局（Accounting and Financial Reporting Council, "AFRC"）是香港負責監管會計專業的法定機構，其職責在於維持高水平的財務報告並確保利益相關者的信心。

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Haldanes

HK Court Grants Worldwide Mareva And Appoints Interim Receivers In Aid Of Enforcing Arbitral Awards

In 周惠明 v 挪信新能源科技 ( 南通 ) 有限公司 [2025] HKCFI 1503, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance ordered (a) that worldwide Mareva injunctions be continued...

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Singapore Apex Court Recognises BVI As The COMI Of A BVI Registered Company – An Examination Of Article 16(3) Of The Model Law

In Re Fullerton Capital Limited (in liquidation) [2025] SGCA 11, the Singapore Court of Appeal has affirmed the importance of a debtor's registered office (in this case in the BVI) as its centre of main interests ("COMI").

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Carey Olsen

Power To The Liquidators: Recent Decisions From Singapore And Hong Kong And Their Impact On Offshore Liquidations

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Hong Kong Court Makes Security For Costs Order Against Mainland Parties With No Assets In Hong Kong

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Must A Foreign Judgment Be Registered Before Being Relied On As A Petitioning Debt?

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Tanner De Witt

Legal Update: Anti-Suit Injunction Restraining A Defendant In A Hong Kong Court Action From Continuing Proceedings It Commenced In The People's Court Of Beijing

Hong Kong Litigation

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Tanner De Witt

A Contract Cannot Be Enforced If The Performance Of It Is Unlawful – What Does "Unlawful" Mean Though?

Hong Kong Commercial

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Legal Update: Rights vs. Interests – English Decisions Not Followed In In Re Aoyuan Group Limited [2025] HKCFI 310

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Tanner De Witt

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Personal Injury

Arbitrability – Stay Of Proceedings In Favour Of Arbitration Falcon Insurance v Bing Lee [2023] HKCFI 1129

A dispute arose in respect of proceedings initiated by an insurer (the plaintiff) seeking a declaration of non-liability.

Hong Kong Litigation

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Stephenson Harwood

Factors In Deciding Damages For "Injury To Feelings" In Discrimination Cases

Under express statutory provisions in each of the anti-discrimination ordinances of Hong Kong, a successful claimant may be awarded damages for "injury to feelings" in addition to other remedies.

Hong Kong Employment

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Tanner De Witt

Hong Kong Small Claims Tribunal Scale Of Costs For Minor Injury Claim

In a recent decision in Wong Sin Yi v. Kwan Pui Wing and The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited (DCPI 408/2023) made by Hong Kong District Court Personal Injury Master Jo Siu...

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Mayer Brown

Section 25 Employees' Compensation Recovery Claims

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Mayer Brown

Hong Kong Safety Snapshots – Confirmation Of Limits On Statutory Compensation For Internal Injuries

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Herbert Smith Freehills

Plaintiffs With Claims History And Their Solicitors Beware! – Analysis Of Faisal v Ocean Park Corporation

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Mayer Brown

Hong Kong Safety Snapshots: Are Employees Entitled To Statutory Compensation For Work-related Stress?

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Herbert Smith Freehills

Can You Sue In Hong Kong If Personal Data Has Been Stolen? Lessons From Warren v DSG Retail Ltd

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Mayer Brown

Hong Kong Court Dismisses Work Injury Claim Over Failure To Accurately Declare Health Condition

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Mayer Brown

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