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Butterworths Hong Kong Company Law Handbook, 17th Edition

Edited by ELG Tyler · Stefan Lo
LexisNexis Hong Kong September 2015

Specifications

ISBN-13
9789888301331
Publisher
LexisNexis Hong Kong
Publication
September 2015
Format
Paperback , 1573 pages
Jurisdiction
Hong Kong ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

The Butterworths Hong Kong Company Law Handbook, now in its 17th Edition, is a detailed work of reference containing the Companies Ordinance (Cap 622).

This handbook reproduces the text of the Ordinance as currently in force with section-by-section annotations, encompassing significant judicial decisions and rules of court, as well as history notes, definitions of words and phrases, discussions on practical aspects and contentious issues in reference to each section and other authoritative materials including cross-jurisdictional references.

This series has been cited with authority in over one hundred court cases in the Hong Kong Court of First Instance, Court of Appeal and Court of Final Appeal. This Handbook will be an invaluable source of information for practitioners, company secretaries, academics, students and anyone engaged in or interested in the laws governing companies in Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

  • Table of Cases
  • Table of Legislation
  • Table of Other Sources
  • Glossary of Chinese Words and Phrases
  • Companies Ordinance (Cap 622)

(The commentary in this book states the law as at 1 July 2015)

 

About the Author

ELG Tyler

MA(Oxon)

Barrister, Lincoln's Inn and Hong Kong

Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Tasmania and the High Court and Federal Courts of Australia

Formerly Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong and City University of Hong Kong, District Judge Hong Kong

Senior Assistant Law Officer, Commercial 111, (Companies Ordinance Rewrite team), Department of Justice HKSARG

Professor Tyler came to Hong Kong in 1985 from Australia. He was a professor at The University of Hong Kong from 1985 to 1991, when he became a District Court Judge. He returned to academia in 1994 to City University of Hong Kong and retired from there back to Australia in 2005. In 2007 he returned to Hong Kong to a temporary position in the Commercial Unit, Civil Division, and Department of Justice working on the Companies Ordinance Rewrite (The new Companies Ordinance was passed in July 2012). He is now working on the Improvement of Corporate Insolvency Law exercise. Professor Tyler has lectured and written on Hong Kong Company Law for the past 25 γears.

 

Stefan Lo

BBA, LLB (Syd), LLM (Syd)

Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales

Senior Government Counsel Department of Justice HKSARG

Stefan was appointed to the Civil Division of the Department of Justice in 2009 to advice on the Companies Ordinance Rewrite. He was previously Assistant Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong where he taught company and commercial law. Stefan has researched and published widely in corporate and securities law in textbooks, treatises, and local and international journals. He is a Research Affiliate of the Sydney Law School's Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law.

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