Chitty On Contracts: Hong Kong Specific Contracts (5th Edition)

The authoritative reference work for Hong Kong contract law.

Substantial revisions to many chapters and introduction of the Competition Ordinance (Cap. 691) and Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Ordinance (Cap. 623).

Chitty on Contracts 5th Edition provides the essential updates to drafting or interpreting specific contracts and key areas of local contract law, including:

Employment Law detailing the Contract (rights of third parties) Ordinance (Cap. 623), enforcing right against the employer and an employer’s duty to indemnify its employee/

Construction Contracts detailing both Competition Ordinance (Cap 691) and Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Ordinance (Cap. 623)

Comprehensive and Authoritative Content

• Mediation content reviewed by Mr. Justice Lam, Vice President of the Hong Kong Court of Appeal.
• Undue influence examines contracts entered into under tremendous inequality of bargaining power, and very often duress.
• Restitution & Unjust Enrichment detailing a new section on Remedies, the essential guidance for legal actions, guiding you to understand how to rectify a wrong right
• Sales of Land highlights substantially expanded. Recent cases on condition of property, requisitions, memorandums, courts’ emphasis on pragmatism and freedom of contract, and new sections on fixtures and Chinese customary law.