What is Norwich Pharmacal Order? Norwich Pharmacal Order (Third Party Disclosure Order) is a common law legal remedy that is commonly used in the recovery of fraudulent funds, trademark patent infringement or other tort cases. Taking the recovery of defrauded funds as an example, in various e-mail fraud, financial fraud, investment scam and other cases...Read More

In Hong Kong litigation, witness testimony (including the parties’ own tesimony) is very crucial evidence, and one of the important questions to decide whether to adopt the witness evidence or not is the credibility of the witness. This passage talks about the credibility issue of the witness in Hong Kong litigation, and its difference from...Read More

Enforcement of Mainland Judgments in Hong Kong: An Overview of Common Law Enforcement Methods As a Hong Kong law firm that handles Mainland-Hong Kong litigation, we have handled many cases for enforcement of Mainland judgments in Hong Kong. The most commonly used method for enforcing a Mainland judgment in Hong Kong is through the common...Read More

What is Without Prejudice Correspondence? 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. Its primary purpose is to facilitate settlements in civil proceedings. Inadmissibility of Without Prejudice Documents Therefore, if a party to...Read More

Application of Hong Kong Law Is No Panacea In the ever increasing commercial intercourses between Hong Kong and the Mainland China, many of the related agreements are governed by Hong Kong law instead of the PRC law, despite that quite a lot of such agreements are largely performed in the Mainland China.  The reasons for this...Read More

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 word is one thing, and getting around of the legal consequence is another. Fortunately, in Hong Kong, the Apology Bill was enacted on 13 July...Read More

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 the two regions, trading volume is bound to explode following conclusion of the bilateral treaty. With the explosion in trades also, unfortunately, will come the...Read More