In early 2024, a finance employee in the Hong Kong office of engineering firm Arup joined a video conference that appeared to include the company’s chief financial officer and several colleagues. After receiving instructions during the call, the employee authorized
Your AI-Drafted China Contract Says It Needs a Lawyer. Listen to It.
In the past couple of months, at least three unrelated companies have asked me to review an AI-drafted China contract containing this exact dispute-resolution provision:
Governing Law; Dispute
Every year, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate publishes a number of ‘representative cases’ of malicious intellectual property (IP) litigation, to highlight its efforts to prevent the abusive enforcement of IP rights for improper commercial gain. The cases demonstrate the important role
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A Hong Kong appellate court on Thursday upheld the conviction of five pro-democracy activists for their failure to register the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, created to support pro-democracy protesters during the 2019 Hong Kong protests, under the Societies
Do I Need a China NNN Agreement or a China Manufacturing Agreement? Usually Both.
Most companies manufacturing custom products in China need both a China NNN Agreement and a China Manufacturing Agreement, at different points in the project. The NNN
Dan Priel, City University of Hong Kong; Osgoode Hall Law School, has published Bentham’s Children: Intellectual Lineages in Jurisprudence. Here is the abstract.
There is a familiar intellectual line that starts with Jeremy Bentham and ends with contemporary legal
In K v JX [2026] HKCFI 2854, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance set aside an order granting leave to K to enforce a Mainland award on public policy grounds. The arbitration arose from a settlement agreement and the
