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Butterworths Hong Kong Company Law Handbook, 24th Edition

Butterworths Hong Kong Company Law Handbook, 24th Edition

Name: Butterworths Hong Kong Company Law Handbook, 24th Edition
Brand: LexisNexis Hong Kong
SKU: 9789888799619
Price: 3783.00 HKD
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Author: ELG Tyler; Stefan HC Lo
ISBN: 9789888799619

Edited by ELG Tyler · Stefan HC Lo

LexisNexis Hong Kong June 2022

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9789888799619
Publisher: LexisNexis Hong Kong
Publication: June 2022
Format: Paperback (2 volumes) , 2700 pages
Jurisdiction: Hong Kong ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This handbook aims to provide a comprehensive guide to the Companies Ordinance (Cap 622), alongside sectional annotations detailing their relevant practice and procedures, as well as the recent legislative and judicial developments. It is an essential text for students studying Company Law, as well as for practitioners and analysts, examining all aspects of company law, with reference to the relevant legislation and cases in Hong Kong.

This new edition aims to deal with the intricacies of the Companies Ordinance (Cap 622) in an easily accessible form. It reproduces the text of the Ordinance as currently in force along with section by section annotations and examines the significant judicial decisions and rules of court. The annotations also provide the definition of words and phrases, discussion on practical aspects and contentious issues with reference to each section and other authoritative materials including cross-jurisdictional references.

What's new in this Edition
The new edition includes commentary on relevant new cases and developments in Company Law since the previous edition.

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, legal advisers, company secretaries, students and anyone interested in the laws governing companies in Hong Kong.

About the Author

ELG Tyler

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, 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 years.

Stefan HC Lo

Stefan was appointed to the Civil Division of the Department of Justice in 2009 to advise 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.