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Hong Kong Conveyancing and Property Law Handbook, 3rd Edition

Hong Kong Conveyancing and Property Law Handbook, 3rd Edition

Author: Sarah Nield; Antonio M. Da Roza
Publisher: LexisNexis Hong Kong
ISBN: 9789628937608
Published In: December 2007
Format: Paperback , 546 pages
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Hong Kong Conveyancing and Property Law Handbook (3rd Edition) is a detailed reference work containing up-to-date materials on the Conveyancing and Property Ordinance (Cap 219) and Land Registration Ordinance (Cap 128), the two most important Ordinances pertaining to conveyancing law and practice in Hong Kong.

This Handbook reproduces the Ordinances as currently in force, noting all amendments and repeals and providing section-by-section annotations. Annotations encompass significant judicial decisions and rules of court, provide definitions of words and phrases, and discuss practical aspects and contentious issues relating to each section. The text is clear, succinct, fully cross-referenced and supplemented by tables of cases, legislation and other sources.

This edition also includes the consequential amendments to the two Ordinances pursuant to the Land Titles Ordinances (Cap 585), which is not yet in force, in note form.

This Handbook is the most informed and convenient guide available to Hong Kong conveyancing law, setting out all information every likely to be needed on the legislative regime and its application. It will prove indispensable to lawyers, business professionals, investors, estate agents, government officials, academics, students and all those who are engaged or interested in the dynamic practice of conveyancing in Hong Kong.

Sarah Nield, LLB, Solicitor of the Supreme Courts of Hong Kong and England & Wales, is a senior lecturer in law at the School of Law, University of Southampton, UK. She was a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law for ten years and has practiced in Hong Kong with the international law firms Deacons and Slaughter & May. She is the author of Hong Kong Land Law and The Conveyancing and Property Ordinance (Butterworths, 1988), the original annotation of the Ordinance.

She was a member of the Registrar General’s Working Party o the Conveyancing and Property Ordinance, which was responsible for the drafting of the original bill.

Antonio M. Da Roza, LLB, LLM, is a barrister in general practice in Hong Kong. His fields of special interest include securities law and conveyancing and property. He is one of the Editors of Securities Law, and previously edited the Butterworths Hong Kong Securities Handbook as well as annotating the Partition Ordinance, Powers of Attorney Ordinance and Complex Commercial Crimes Ordinance for the Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong series.