This new edition provides localisation of substantive legal content, building on the precedents of pleadings that have been tightly drafted by specialist law firms
Your subscription includes a complimentary supplement in 2018 which will provide two new chapters complete with new precedents
Since the first edition, Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Hong Kong Precedents of Pleadings has provided locally relevant precedents while remaining modeled on the UK original works.
This second edition includes:
Updates to 8 chapters including banking and finance, business law, intellectual property and professional liability
A revised business law section fully up-to-date with the new Trade Description Ordinance (Cap. 362) and an expanded section on Constructive Trust and Tracing
Updated commentary with recent case law
New and revised precedents included in the complimentary supplement
A subject overview at the start of each section which lists important cases and cites relevant legislation
Commentary with specific guidance to individual precedents serving as a best practice guide for presentation of trial materials
Coverage of both claims and defences
Cross-references to the White Book
New cases of note include:
Business Law:
Secretary for Justice v Global Merchant Funding Ltd. [2015] 2 HKLRD 843 , (2016) 19 HKCFAR 192.
Chan Miu Chu Zoe v Choi Chiu Yuk (unrep., HCA 698/2012, [2014] HKEC 316)
Swiss Finance Mortgage Services Ltd. v Wong Kam Fan (unrep., HCA 1244/2015, [2016] HKEC 2763).
Chang Pui Yin v Bank of Singapore Ltd. [2017] 4 HKLRD 458.
Economic Torts:
Xiamen Xinjingdi Group Ltd (廈門新景地集團有限公司) formerly known as 廈門市鑫新景地房地產有限公司
Eton Properties Ltd (裕景興業有限公司) [2016] 4 HKC 357
Liu Qian (劉倩) v Sunway International Holdings Ltd (unrep., CACV 88/2017, [2017] HKEC 1995)(CFI)). – contract procured by fraud
Bribery:
Does the bribe give rise to a proprietary claim in addition to a personal one (as opposed to a personal claim only) by the principal against the agent? FHR European Ventures LLP v Mankarious [2014] UKSC 45 (overruling Tang Ying Loi v Tang Ying Ip Alias Tang Ying Yip [2015] 1 HKLRD 712, JS Microelectronics Ltd v Achhada Dilip G (unrep., HCA 1202A/2012; HCA 1202/2012, 23 March 2016)
Environmental Claims – Nuisance:
Barr v Biffa Waste Services Ltd [2011] 4 All E.R. 1065: Use of Land as a Landfill
Rylands v Fletcher: Consent and Nuisance
Color Quest Ltd v Total Downstream UK Plc [2009] EWHC 823 (Comm); [2010] 2 Costs LR 140
Larbons Ltd v Kuo You Weaving Factory Ltd
